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140lbs of Puppy Loving
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Special Day
Today Spirit and I are sharing our special day together. She is 10 month’s old and I’m ancient.
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9 Months and Counting
To help Spirit celebrate her big day we gave her her first knuckle bone. To say that it was a hit would be a big understatement. She LOVED it!! It kept her busy for a couple of hours. Every time I walked by her she had this look on her face that clearly said “please don’t take this away from me…pretty please!” I did take it from her several times to make sure she wouldn’t resource guard it. She now weighs 34.6 kg or 76.2 lbs.
If you missed it on Facebook last week, here is Spirit celebrating National Dog Day:
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Our garden helper
Spirit loves to be part of everything that we are doing. If we ignore her then she finds a way to push her big, fat head into the action. Here she is helping Dad garden:
Then she got her first introduction to the garden sprinkler. As you can see she loved it!
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8 Months old…time is flying
Our girl is growing up way too fast….where is my cute little puppy???? She now weighs 32.8KG or 72.3lbs.
How about a celebratory roll in the grass….
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Wally & Bella: Family Reunion
Way back in October 2003, when he was only 2-1/2, Wally’s first litter of puppies were born. There were 12 beautiful, pure bred Golden Retrievers. I was drawn to one of them immediately because she was a lovely dark red/golden colour like her Dad. I named her Bella and I was lucky to foster her until she was 6 months old.
Father and daughter snuggle time
Play time!!
The last time I saw Bella was when she was 2 years old but Wally has not seen her since she left us in April of 2004. That was until now. Wally is 14 years old and Bella is 11-1/2. They took one sniff of each other and it was like they were long time buddies. Bella is a little slow moving and has some trouble with stairs but the two of them ran around and played like puppies. It was so wonderful to watch.
Beautiful Bella and her handsome Dad Wally
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Camo Puppy
Camouflage Puppy
It has been so stinkin’ hot that Spirit has found herself a cool, shady spot under the weeping birch to get out of the sun and chillax.
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Happy Canada Day
Tilly death stare
Say goodbye to the Canada Day headband
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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
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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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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Wordless Wednesday
10 weeks old
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Welcome Spirit
Meet our newest family member Spirit. She is a Bernese Mountain Dog and she will be 10 weeks old on Feb 7th. We just picked her up tonight and brought her home. She already has her own blog. You can find her at LIFEWITHSPIRIT.CA
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Cone Head Druggie
I can giggle now when I look at these pictures but at the time I felt so sorry for my little girl. She woke us up in the middle of the night crying in pain. We rushed to the emergency vet and we discovered that she had a very swollen and infected anal gland. They had to drug her and open it up to drain it. When we got home she had trouble standing and holding her head up with the cone of shame on. I made a little nest for her in front of the fireplace. When she was a little more conscious I gave her a little yogurt (that accounts for all the extra white around her chin) to help offset the negative effects of the antibiotics they put her on.
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Wordless Wednesday – Chillin’ out
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January 21, 2015 · 01:00
Wordless Wednesday
Squeaky Toy Love
I just love those big, fat, jowly cheeks.
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Merry Christmas
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Snowball girl
Tilly’s lovely long hair acts like a snowball magnet.
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Honouring Tango
Earlier this year SARShop.com contacted search and rescue groups from around the world asking members to submit photos of their dogs. Their plan was to produce the first Search and Rescue calendar. We submitted a couple of pictures of our beautiful Tango and then promptly forgot about it. Just a couple of days before Tango crossed over the rainbow bridge we received an email telling us that Tango’s picture had been chosen for the calendar. This weekend we received our complimentary copy of the 2015 calendar. It was very emotional for us to see our girl’s picture in the calendar. The picture above is the one they chose. She is part of a group of pictures for the month of July.
Back in 2012 this picture of Tango was chosen to hang in the Royal Alberta Museum as part of their Wolf to Woof exhibit. (read more about it here).
Just a few more pictures of our girl. She always looked like she was smiling. Gosh I miss her……..
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Wordless Wednesday
When I have been sitting at my sewing machine for too long, Tilly likes to poke her head up between my legs and demand that I stop piecing and give her some loving.
Remember Me? I need a little attention here!!!
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Wordless Wednesday
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Sleeping Beauty
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October 29, 2014 · 19:46
Wordless Wednesday – Ombre Golden
We spent a beautiful fall day at Patty’s farm/acreage. The dogs always have a wonderful time running free in her fields and eating as many cow pies as they can find. Wally does enjoy eating a few of them but his first love is rolling in them. My boy has never met a pile of poop that he didn’t want to roll in. We dressed him in a long sleeved t-shirt to try and keep the poop out of his beautiful golden locks. Unfortunately we had to take it off when it got too loose around his belly and he peed all over it. Then the dogs found the dug out and went in for a quick swim and drink. The other 5 dogs got out fairly clean but our Wally got stuck in mud half way up his body and had to be pulled out by Patty. Talk about a mud bath…..now he has to have a ‘real’ bath…but he was pretty happy with himself. I’m still amazed at how active and agile he is for a old man of 13 years…..14 in April.
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Hint …. Hint …..
Our girl loves her food and when she thinks it’s supper time she does her best to make sure we know it too.
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Life In The Dog House 