I don’t know who I’m more irritated with at the moment…the dog or myself. Of course when she’s laying under the dining table where I’m sitting and sleeping so nice and peacefully it’s really hard to hold a grudge. Alas, I knew I should have changed my jeans when we got home today but just […]

Today was Ayla’s very first bath. One would think that since Newf’s are supposed to be water loving dogs that they would also enjoy a bath in nice warm water…but apparently that is not the case. Maybe something for us to work towards? lol We got out the doggy shampoo and headed into the spare […]

This morning we took a journey to visit some friends in Holland. It’s about 3 hours ride from here and a good warm up for Ayla since she’ll be spending a lot of time in the car the last few weeks of September and beginning of October travelling from place to place. On the way […]

So we’ve already had what must have been a very exciting day for Newfie standards since Ayla was passed out for hours since we got home again. We have pretty much given up all hope of trying to take her for a walk in the mornings. She won’t even go with the hubby although she […]

One of our newest “tricks” is to launch ourselves and the bushes outside in a lame attempt to get on top of it…or to get at whatever might be on top of it. Rather humorous to watch since she basically just bounces off them. I am a bit concerned about her doing it on the […]