Sad news for fans of Queer Eye’s frequent special guest star: Bruley, the adorable French bulldog has died, CNN reports. The four-legged friend, who needed no fashion or beauty assistance due to his own perfection, belonged to Queer Eye producer Michelle Silva, and would occasionally waddle onto the set to nap on various cast members during episode tapings of the Netflix series.
Bruley’s owner reports that the bulldog was 10 at the time of his passing, which is on the early end of the 10-14 age range for French bulldogs. She described on Instagram, “He just had too much love and heart for his physical body. It all happened so fast, but I held him as he took his last breath, and I was able to tell him I loved him the very most… I told him everyday I loved him more than anything in the world, and I reminded him of that over and over as he slipped out of this life.” The photogenic pup was a big hit with Queer Eye fans, and eventually amassed almost 300K InstaGram followers.
Cast member Bobby Berk commended Bruley for his “jump kisses” and even his grunts and farts. Those loft viewings now will never be the same. Enjoy that rainbow bridge, pal.
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The funeral will be impeccably classy.
and Fabulous!
Bruley was an adorable addition to Queer Eye, and more importantly, he was a very good boy. I’m getting sad reading his person’s description, and I wanna go home and hug my own very good boy and tell him how much I love him.
The only bad thing about having a pet is that you have to watch them die someday.
Pugs and French Bulldogs spend every moment of their existence struggling to breathe.
Please stop buying them.
You got it! *Lies about needing a hypoallergenic dog to justify buying a four figure designer dog just so I can have a trendy goldendoodle to post on social media* – affluent millenials
Yes, because it’s definitely our generation that created these dogs in the first place. I’m a 35 year old millennial and no one I know will ever be affluent, let alone barely even middle class. Fuck off.
Im 35 (okay 36 next week) and I know plenty of people who are affluent and middle class. Because I’m being honest. I know lawyers and doctors and advanced practice nurses and bankers and whatnot. They’re doing fine. The notion that all millennials are broke is such a myth. Someone is out there buying houses and SUVs and avocado toast and yes designer dogs. I’m fine with my 80 and 25 dollar pound pups but the influencer following rich kids love them some doodles.
So just because people you know have advanced degrees and well-paying jobs, all millennials are doing fine? Cool cool cool.
The worse part is, to me at least, Goldendoodles are a rather ugly dog and their hypoallergenic coat is not comfortable to pet. I don’t get itOf course add in the fact that the hypoallergenic properties of any dog is not an exact science and highly overrated and the fact that hypoallergenic does not mean “Does not shed” and you sadly find many of these 4 figure designer dogs end up in the adoption system looking for new homes because idiots who spend thousands on specific dog breeds tend to be bad dog owners
But that I only have one star to give.
“idiots who spend thousands on specific dog breeds”They don’t want a dog, they want a stylish furnishing, and once it goes out of style, it gets discarded like any other object in their collection.
Bulldogs in general are abominations that probably wish to die most the time. When you mix dog breeds to a point where they can not even give live birth without a c-section, that is a good indicator that you have went to far. That being sad, evils of breeding are not this little dogs fault and he was well loved and will be missed. 🙁
I have a pug that I acquired through an acquaintance getting rid of him due to having too many dogs and him being mildly cat aggressive (not really, he’s lived with four cats since then, idk why he was the one chosen to boot, honestly).
I’ve volunteer with my local shelter. So many pugs end up there. Few people want them when they get old. They get expensive and have a lot of special needs. (Mine is eleven and needs pain meds and steps, is incontinent, and had a heart murmur- but that has cleared up after losing several pounds, thankfully.)
But people want them because they are cute and also because they have great personalities. So to then dump them when it gets too hard . . . fucking evil. Evil at the start, evil at the end.
I support taking pugs back to old breeding standards, when they could still breathe and function. Because they do have the absolute best personalities. But no doubt I would take no pugs or frenchies at all over continuing to create creatures just born to suffer.
Edit to add: I’d never have another pug after my current boi unless it was an old one from a shelter. I highly encourage anyone with the money and mental fortitude to do so, to adopt older pets. It’s just so fundamentally wrong when they end up homeless. (And as much as we all wish the story was always the owner just died of old age, well, sadly . . . *sigh*)
I think the key is never buy from a breeder…ever. Don’t care if its a guy out of the trunk of his car or some fancy 10K designer breeded. They all suck. Far to many dogs are currently in shelters and in foster programs waiting for homes. If you want a pure breed dog(why would you but hey that isn’t my thing) , if you are willing to look, you can adopt one. If you want a mutt who loves you and is a very good boy, then go get one of those. Want a puppy, you can adopt a puppy just as easy as buying one because many dog owners are irresponsible idiots who don’t get their dogs spayed and neuteredPersonally, at my age with my kids, I’d have a hard time adopting an older dog who would not be with us very long but I see it as something I may do when I hit retirement age. The key is always adopt.
..or all purebreds for the matter. So many of my gay couple friends own Huskies and you talk about the expensive and heartbreaking lives they now have. Yikes.
Our entire family is smitten with my brother’s Frenchie. And our whole family will be crushed when someday the little guy passes on.From the bottom of my heart, please go eat shit and play in traffic.
Karamo probably also argued for the side of dog death