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99% Invisible

Cute Little Monstrosities of Nature

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.828.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The French bulldog is now the second most popular breed in America. Their cute features, portable size, and physical features make for a dog that can easily travel and doesn't require a lot of exercise. But these characteristics sometimes have a detrimental effect on the dog's health.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

0:05.0

In February of 2021 at around 940 PM, Ryan Fisher was taking a lovely evening stroll down

0:12.4

Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.

0:14.6

Fisher, a self-described nanny to a frenzy of Frenchies, had three French bulldogs in

0:20.1

tow as he turned on to a residential street. Suddenly a white sedan pulled up next to

0:25.6

him and two men sprang out of the vehicle. They were armed and they demanded that

0:30.7

he hand over the dogs immediately.

0:33.4

That is journalist Tova Denovich.

0:35.9

Ryan Fisher did not hand over the dogs and as a result he was shot once in the

0:41.2

chest.

0:42.2

Gunshots were hurt, two of them.

0:44.0

The victim falls back as the assailant raced back to the car with the two dogs.

0:49.0

And the attackers fled with two of the three Frenchies who were named Koji and Gustav.

0:55.0

Fisher luckily survived the shooting, but this dognapping triggered a wave of

1:00.4

media attention because Koji and Gustav weren't just any Frenchies. They were Lady

1:06.8

Gaga's Frenchies.

1:08.1

Friends of the man who was shot tell us he was constantly walking Lady Gaga's

1:12.0

dogs in this neighborhood and he doesn't know

1:15.0

it. Due to their celebrity owner a lot of people assume the dogs were stolen

1:19.2

to collect a ransom from Lady Gaga. She did in fact offer a $500,000 reward for their return, which is a lot of money.

1:28.0

Yeah, that is a lot of money.

1:29.6

But the truth is, if anyone had been walking down this road in Los Angeles with Frenchies at the time

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