My dad sent me this video and I found it really, really moving. There are some fabulous shots with dogs in here although there are no Newfies...sad but true. There are two slide shows, one with words and one without, which were originally a poem for a little Maltese...
Could it really be doggo’s fault?
To go along with our blog here about life with our crazy Newfie, we also keep a blog about our house. A little over a month ago, I wrote a few posts about our front gate breaking (read here and here for details as well as our repair not working here). There seemed to...
Could the dog be the culprit??
A little over a month ago, I wrote a few posts about our front gate breaking (read here and here for details as well as our repair not working here). There seemed to be no rhyme or reason for it and it seemed unrelated to the other problems we had with it during the...
Another excercise ball is extinguished
When we moved into this house, there was one of those huge exercises balls in the attic. We gave it to Ayla who absolutely loved it - especially when she was a puppy because she could sort of balance herself on the ball while she was laid across it and she could just...
He’s lost the couch forever
Sometime last week, Ayla started jumping up on the sofa with her daddy. It's a big sofa so he let her stay up there...mostly because he's just a sucker for her looks. 🙂 This was an on and off process. She wasn't trying it every day but she was usually getting away...
A frightening new disease – watch out Gulf States
This disease has been discussed on the Newf-L list recently because a Newf recently succumbed to it. Pythiosis is a very nasty disease and since it's fairly new and usually unreported, many people many not be aware of it. The website pythiosis.com describes the...
An unfortunate casualty
On her birthday (February 23rd), Ayla got a kangaroo stuffie. We actually started buying toys for her from IKEA because they are baby safe and therefore don't have parts that can fall off (plastic eyes, nose, etc) and they are usually a lot cheaper than dog toys. She...
The case of the disappearing duckie
A couple of weeks ago, once we finally had the bathroom upstairs finished, I was able to completely unpack the rest of the items we had in the boxes in our bathroom. Well, there is still one box in the bathroom downstairs but I basically just haven't figured out what...
The latest tormentor
Earlier this week, I was inside working in the office when Ayla started barking. We're trying to make sure that she doesn't develop any boundary protection issues like some of the other dogs in the neighborhood so I went to inspect if there was a reason for the...
Family reunion
It looks like Ayla will get to have a reunion with her fur-mommy and fur-sister this weekend. The breeder is supposed to come by with them and drop off her registration papers as well. We haven't gotten the papers before because for the first few months there was an...


