All Pied in Indiana

My name is Clint Crabtree, I was born and raised in Muncie, Indiana.  I currently work in the legal field, but my passion is breeding and raising top quality AKC French Bulldogs to show and place in pet homes.  When I was 11 or 12, I convinced my dad to purchase a chocolate lab puppy for our family.  Little did I know, but that was the beginning of my passion for raising and breeding dogs.  After high school I went to Indiana Wesleyan University to study criminal justice and pre-law. All during my four years of study at Indiana Wesleyan I was still involved in helping my dad raise and breed labrador retrievers.  I did some obedience training with one of my labs and highly enjoyed it.  After graduating from Indiana Wesleyan University I married my wife Krista and moved to a small apartment in Carmel, Indiana so that I could attend law school at Indiana University in Indianapolis.  My labs were too big for my apartment and by default my involvement with labs ended and while I wanted a french bulldog I was convinced to purchased a boston terrier “Zena” to share our apartment with us.  I was never able to let loose of my desire to own a french bulldog. After attending one year of law school I decided that being a lawyer was not what I wanted to spend the rest of my life as and withdrew after the first year and returned to Indiana Wesleyan and obtained my third (3rd) bachelors degree in Business Information Systems.  Not needing to be close to law school we started looking for a place in our hometown of Muncie where my wife and I grew up.  With the help of my parents we were able to purchase a dream farm on 42 acres caddy-corner to my childhood home in August of 2008. So, you’re thinking, where do the frenchies come in?  Well,  in April of 2009, we were visiting my grandparents in Tennessee and while sitting around one Saturday afternoon my grandpa mentioned that they had some good friends who also raised boston terriers and asked if I would like to go visit them.  We went to visit them later that afternoon but my grandpa was mistaken: They raised french bulldogs.  My desire became uncontrollable at that point and I began searching for my first french bulldog.  My goal was to buy the best I could find even if it took me a long time.  Well, in May of 2009 I was given the opportunity to purchase a fawn male out of Kentucky who had bloodlines to die for.  In to our lives walked Hoosier’s All Jacked Up “Chevy” who is out of the Daystar bloodline and grandsired by the #3 French Bulldog in 2003 the famous Ch. Daystar’s Airies of Avlis Bloa.  In June of 2009, I was presented with the unbelievable opportunity to purchase the french bulldogs I meet when I visited my grandparents friends in Tennessee back in April.  I could not have Read more [...]