Hey all you dogs!!

Long time no bark! I cannot believe how long it’s been since there was a post here. I’m SO going to give my mom a piece of my mind when we get finished typing here….how could she let things slide like this?? Sheesh!

Since it’s been FOREVER, I have LOT to catch you up on…and I guess I’ll go with the oldest stuff cause I may forget it otherwise!!

WAAAAAY back in March I got to travel to Italy again with my humans. This time, instead of camping in a tent, we drove in something they called an RV. It was really nice because there was air conditioning in there and I could stretch out in the middle of the floor all day while we were driving. And at night I would sneak up on the couch and get real nice and comfy which was fantastic! I didn’t get to go swimming this time but we did go to Venice again and I was even more popular this time around! Somewhere around 60 people stopped to pet me. A few of them even let me slobber all over their faces, which not even mom & dad let me do all the time. And I got to be in 5 random photographs. The humans didn’t count how many people talking about me when they saw me because there were just too many….but there were lots of comments like, “Wow, that’s a HUGE dog!” And then my mom would usually respond that I’m pretty small for a Newfie at only 100 pounds…which really got them talking then! A few people even said they were going to have to get a Newf when they got back home – I just hope they know what they’re in for! 😉

Unfortunately I still had to wear that stupid thing on my face when we took the ferry. That has to be the worst torture EVER!

Shortly after we got back from Italy, we had SNOW here. It wasn’t much (so I’m told) but it was the most I’ve seen and it sure was fun to run around in it! Look how pretty I am with it all over my paws! I even look a bit like my Landseer sister…I have no idea how she gets it to stay on her fur all the time though? But it must keep her nice and cool!

And then something terrible happened! The last two weeks of April I got sent to doggie camp. That actually was pretty fun and I met some cool new dogs. BUT when I looked at my parent’s camera after they FINALLY picked me up again, I saw this:

And just who is THAT?!?!?!! Apparently his name is “Bishop” and the humans say he’s very sweet and I would just adore playing with him. But if that’s the case, why didn’t I get to meet him in dog myself?? Huh?? (Mom notes: He belongs to a friend of ours in Florida and he was just so cute that I thought I would share a photo of him.)

But on a better note, when the humans returned, I got new presents!!! Woohoo! I now have a flying saucer with a squeaky ball in the middle – which is oh so much fun to pounce on. And I got a Fat Cat trash collector man that is said to be indestructible – but we’ll see about that. We call him Custodian Dick. (She also got a Chilly Bone which is a cloth bone you freeze, a big Cuz with a fun squeaker in it to accompany the tiny one she has, and a Flying Squirrel which is a square Frisbee thing…none of which she has yet but she will get soon I’m sure!)

Anyway, I guess the only other cool thing that happened is that I have a new playmate across the street! His name is Armani and he’s a Golden Retriever (although a pretty big one at only 8 months old – he’s almost as tall as me already!) I SO hope I will get to play with him soon because he is super cute!

I hope all you dogs have a great weekend…and don’t forget to wake your moms with extra wet kisses on Sunday!! It is Mother’s Day after all!

Hope to bark at you soon!

Newfie kisses,
Ayla