The Olympic Channel wrote an article about skaters and their pets.
Zhenya talked about how Tofu joined their family
"Evgenia Medvedeva and French Bulldogs Jerry and Tofu-Chan
Figure skating fans have long known French Bulldog Jerry, a social media freak with 2018 Olympic silver medalist
Evgenia Medvedeva. When Evgenia and her mother lived in Canada (from 2018 to 2020), Jerry had to be left at home — flights of this breed are contraindicated due to anatomical features: the consequences can be serious, even fatal. Therefore, one of the important pleasant bonuses of returning to Russia was the reunification with Jerry.
"Returning home and moving to my own home allowed me to think about the second dog: there was a fleeting thought to take a corgi, but this idea could not stand the competition. Evgenia admitted that in their family all hearts are devoted to French bulldogs. Jerry is mom's dog first and foremost. Because when we got her, I was still quite small and did not understand the full value of a pet. And Tofu-chan is already mine. The first hands in our family that touched her are mine. I took her away from the breeder, brought her home, fed her for the first time, she slept with me. So Tofochka is absolutely my girl."
"I've always wanted a second dog. And we discussed it with my mother. And she said: "Yes, perhaps, but later ... Maybe after Jerry, definitely not now." But I didn't lag behind. And then we moved to a big house, we got a place. I just walked around her in circles: “Mom, puppy. New puppy. Maybe now? How about a new puppy? Oh, mom? "
"As a result, I just google "french bulldog puppy to buy moscow". I found a breeder, and just ran around my mom with the phone: “Mom, look at the puppy! This must be our puppy! Let's take him! ". And then she gave up, and the next day we went to pick up Tofu.
I already knew the name. Since childhood, I had a dream to have two French Bulldogs: Tofu-chan and Basil. I have no idea why it occurred to me then. But Tofu-chan has always been my favorite name. Therefore, I knew that we were going to pick up Tofu-chan. But maybe Basil is there somewhere in my future."
Чемпионки мира и Европы по фигурному катанию рассказали о своих домашних животных
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Her favorite skater is Zhenya (and you can definitely see the inspiration in her performances!), so I thought her holding Luna in the K&C at Nats was pretty adorable. Then I saw on her instagram today she said, once again, Zhenya was her favorite! She’s a super feisty competitor like Zhenya, too. I love it.
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