Tilly death stare
Say goodbye to the Canada Day headband
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Happy Canada Day
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7 Months Old
What a difference 5 months makes…..
10 weeks old
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Wordless Wednesday: Family Pictures
A few weeks ago I read a very moving post about a dog that passed away unexpectedly. Her owner wanted a do over. Although she had literally hundreds of pictures of her beloved companion, she had none of her with her dog. The story struck a cord with me. I hate having my picture taken and I am always hiding from the camera. I have only a handful of pictures of me and Wally together. My boy is 14 now and he has already lived longer than the normal life expectancy of 12 years. I’m grateful that I saw that blog post. I don’t want to have the same regret when my very special boy goes over the rainbow bridge.
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My girls chill-axin’
Tilly and Spirt hanging out together on the couch
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Wordless Wednesday – First Bath….yuk!!
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June 3, 2015 · 07:18
6 Months Old
Our girl is 6 months old and full of herself. One minute I love her to bits and can’t smooch her up enough and the next minute I would like to give her away to the first person I see. I guess it is the joy of adolescence. She can be so sweet and then so rotten a millisecond later. We went to the Vet for our monthly weigh in and she was 28KG or almost 62 lbs. She now weighs the same as Wally and she is almost as tall as he is.
Next weekend she will participate in her first Dog Show (All Breed). We are doing a mock show on Sunday to give her a chance to work with her handler for the first time.
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Wordless Wednesday: Handsome
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Mmmmm Watermelon
Technically it is supposed to be spring but we just had a huge dump of heavy, wet snow. The cool temps didn’t seem to dampen Spirit’s enthusiasm for trying watermelon for the first time. At first she just tried licking it. She watched her big brother chomping on it and then she started inhaling it as fast as she could. It seems odd to be eating watermelon when there is snow on the ground. I managed to capture a bit of the action on video.
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Spirit the Cheerleader
We all got up bright and early to head to St. Albert so that I could participate in the Run Wild Half Marathon. Spirit was a great cheerleader at the start line and attracted tons of attention. There is something about a Berner puppy. Everyone just wants to meet her and smooch her up.
After the race we had to go to Spirit’s conformation class. Her brother, handsome Samson, was in the same class so we finally got a picture of the two of them together. Although Spirit is about the same height as Samson she looks dwarfed beside him. He also weighs about 13lbs more than her (that’s about 20% heavier).
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5 Months Old
Our little girl is 5 months old today. On the way home from a play date at the off-leash park we stopped at the Vet for a weigh in. I was shocked to discover that she was 54 lbs (see Grandma….no worries). I took a bunch of pictures of her and the rest of the kids so that you can see how much she has grown and how quickly she is catching up to Wally.
Spirit, Wally and Tilly
Wrestling with my big brother
Spirit loves to cuddle. Unfortunately she is so big and klutzy and she doesn’t recognize her own strength. She usually ends up hurting me when she is trying to give me lovin’.
Look out….here I come
Mmmm ears!!
Giving Mom a big wet willy
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Our first water adventure
Now that the ice jams are gone, I felt it was safe for Spirit to be introduced to the river at the dog park. The first time she followed a bunch of dogs in and came bounding out. The second time she ran in and hit a deep spot and her head went under the water (at 2:14). She was a bit surprised but recovered quickly. It took an extra 30 minutes of running around to get all the dirt, mud and excess water off her coat before I would let her back into the car.
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4 Months Old
Our “little” girl is officially four months old today. She had her final set of shots on Friday and she was 40.5 lbs. Although she has grown quite a bit taller, her weight hasn’t changed in 2 weeks.
We have been puppy sitting a friend’s dog for the last week. They have been getting along famously. They wrestle all day at home and the two of them have spent many hours running at the off-leash park. I think I am going to miss her as much or even more than Spirit will. She not only kept our little girl busy and out of trouble but all that activity made for a very tired and sleepy puppy when they weren’t running around.
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Can you caption these photos?
When I saw these pictures I couldn’t stop laughing. It looks like Spirit was trying to give Hope a clear message. In the first picture she is sound asleep with her nose parked in Hope’s behind and in the second one her eyes are wide open and see appears to be pushing her paw against the area that is offending her.
Sleeping blissfully unaware of what is about to happen
OMG….Hope farted in my face
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CPR Spirit Style
Yesterday we renewed our First Aid certification. We are very lucky that one of our SAR group members is a certified instructor. Dawn very graciously agreed to come to our house to teach the course so that we wouldn’t have to leave Spirit at home all day. Although it was a little bit of a challenge to do the course with 3 dogs helping, I think it may have added a little bit of spice to the class. Spirit was very interested in the AED, especially when it was talking.
Time for a break
Flirting with the instructor hoping to get Mom and Dad a good grade
Time out for a little butt scratching
Learning chest compressions
I am enjoying the course so much that I am smiling!
Practicing mouth to mouth
Our not so little girl is 3 months old today. Yikes time is flying by too fast!!!
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11 Weeks Old
Happy Valentine’s Day
What a difference a week makes. Little Spirit is gaining a little more confidence each day. We’ve been for several short car rides and each time she shows less signs of stress. We’ve gone from being afraid of going up and down 3 small steps on our deck to mastering all the steps up (and down) to the second floor of our house. She’s gone from 22.5 to 26 lbs…and Friday night was the first night that she slept through the night without needing a potty break. Yippeeeee!!. Getting up at 2am, dead lifting 26 lbs and schlepping her down the stairs was getting to be really hard on the back. And I’ve saved the best news for last….we’ve made it two days in a row without any potty accidents in the house.
Here’s a fun video of Spirit running in slow motion. I giggle every time I watch those ears flap up and down.
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10 weeks old
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Merry Christmas
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Wordless Wednesday – Mmmm Yogurt
The ‘kids’ love licking the empty yogurt containers. I used to buy 500ml containers so they got to ‘clean’ one every 3 days. When I switched to the 1 litre containers they had to wait a whole week. They still join me in the kitchen every morning hoping that today is the day that the container is ready for their pre-wash cycle.
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Life In The Dog House 