Alya got to have a nice long play session with Fly (the Border Collie across the street) today. We were leaving for our evening walk when we saw our neighbor and Fly starting out as well so we caught up with her and made our doggy stroll together. The neighbor was telling us that Fly […]

What a brilliant idea! We have yet to do our first nail trimming with Ayla but she definitely needs it already…perhaps we can try this method instead since we were going to go for the Dremmel method…http://www.shirleychong.com/keepers/nailfile.htmlThe easiest way to do a dog’s nails in my opinion is to have the dog do their own […]

Since we seem to have a lot of “pet” names for our pet (I know, I couldn’t resist the pun), I figured we’d post a list of them just for fun…AylaAylesAyNewfNewfieNewfersNewfsterGoofy NewfieDoggoFreak ShowPuppersPupper wupper And when she’s Newfie rugging it…Ruggers or Newfie rug Yes, we actually do use quite a few of these to communicate […]

Went for a walk this evening to wear out the puppers. She is still really super about walking off the leash so as soon as we are far enough into the fields that she isn’t at risk of running in front of a car or something, we take her leash off and let her do […]

Ayla got to experience her first hail storm today. It lasted a few minutes and the hail chunks were about pea sized. Thankfully it was pretty soft and slushy…and not a problem at all to Ayla who just walked out in it like it was not even there. So far she has not had any […]