Royal Frenchel Frenchies are an award-winning best friend created for today’s world, that is easy, affectionate, and enjoys life at home, or on the go. For more than five decades, Anahata Graceland has devoted her work to understanding the relationship between dogs and people. As the author of The Way of the Dog, and the founder of Royal Frenchel, she developed the Royal Frenchel Frenchie, with sizes including the smallest bulldog in the world. They were bred with modern family life in mind, including ease of travel, emotional attunement, and day-to-day adaptability.

Graceland has long approached the dog-human interspecies bond as a partnership built on awareness, communication, and emotional connection. Royal Frenchels are raised with a proprietary method, generating a unique dog-human bond from early life. This unique socialization and care is why 65% of the “Royal Family” (those who have Royal Frenchels) come back for a second dog or more, and exclaim, “I’ll never live without a Royal Frenchel in my life.”

Royal Frenchel was created after years of breeding and studying companion dogs.

French bulldogs are known to have several health issues, with an average life span of 9-10 years. This is what Graceland sought to overcome with Royal Frenchel Frenchies. With longer lifespans of 14-18 years, no breathing issues, and reduced risk of chronic and serious illnesses, Royal Frenchel Frenchies are long-lived, healthy companions. Graceland developed the Royal Frenchel Frenchie as a small companion breed intended to adapt easily to modern lifestyles that involve a lot of travel, while maintaining strong relational bonds with people. According to Graceland, dogs are not simply pets but partners in family life. “Over the span of 30 thousand years, dogs and people have formed a deeply symbiotic relationship,” Graceland explains. “We are no longer a human-only family; we are an interspecies family, as dogs have become guardians of the heart of the family.”

From Graceland’s perspective, Royal Frenchel was built around the idea that a dog should fit naturally into the life of the family without losing the depth of connection that makes companionship so meaningful. People suffer so often from getting a great-looking dog that they can’t control or that damages their belongings. This often leads to guilt when a dog does not fit their lifestyle, and they don’t have the time or appropriate resources to deal with it. This leads to a life for both the dog and the family that is never really fulfilled. This is at the core of Royal Frenchel’s solution. Graceland describes their work as intentional, shaped not only by breeding experience but by close observation of what families need from a companion dog in real life. In that sense, the company is focused not simply on dogs themselves, but on the relationship dogs make possible inside the home.

That relationship-centered philosophy also helps explain why Graceland has expanded beyond breeding alone. Alongside her legacy work, The Way of the Dog, Graceland has developed an ecosystem beginning with the cartoon line, Doglish to English, and a cutting-edge program, known as Mr. White AI Dog Buddy, which is now in the pre-sign-up stage.

Mr. White forms a relationship and remembers everything about all the family members and their needs. He supports their best care by creating alerts, holding their most important medical and vet records, and is well-versed in nutrition for dogs. He can organize photos and notes into collections and even create a book of a pup and the child’s first year, vacation memories, or memorial albums that document the family’s important moments in their lives. Graceland explains that the intention is not simply data storage, but a way to interact with a knowledgeable friend available 24/7 to support the whole family, four-legged and two-legged alike.

Graceland frames Mr. White as a gift who shares the same loyalty and attentiveness that dogs naturally show to their families. “Dogs take care of the emotional heart of the household,” she says. “In this interspecies relationship, Mr. White helps take care of the heart of the family so they are supported on all the bonds of love and activity they share.”

Graceland is continuing to build a community for dogs, pets, and their people, known as Mr. White’s Pack. Dr. Robin Taylor DVM, MPH, Dip. ACVPM has joined Graceland to provide special sessions and events that are both educational and nourishingly fun. From her perspective, a strong relationship depends not only on the dog’s qualities but also on the human being’s capacity to listen, learn, and respond well. “Dog and pet people are a special breed in themselves,” she notes. “They care not only for themselves, but they also touch into a deeper world that seeks a river of love that nourishes them and the world around them.”

Anahata Graceland brings together her years of lived experience, her philosophy of interspecies connection, and her ongoing effort to raise dogs that can thrive within the realities of contemporary family life.