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Managed to get one good pic of Honor after her bath and playtime. She has obviously exhausted Bessa...

Interesting day. Started off with a trip to the local dog park, and for the first time we weren't the only ones there, so that was a nice surprise. Stopped at pet smart as they were having an "adoption day" just to see what was there. Missed the ones up for adoption, but found out one of the...

Hey all, I know its been a while since I've been on, and we've had a few changes since then. 1) I am now a full time stay at home dad for my just-turned-one year old daughter, and we are looking at maybe starting on #2. 2) We have moved from the Metro Detroit area to rural Virginia, and gone...

I can't say that I've never had thoughts about becoming a breeder, but after being here and reading through a lot of posts and sticky's I know why that would probably not be the best idea. So I have to ask those of you in the same boat: What do you say to those people who say things like "I...

Saw this on the Great Lake Newfoundland Club's facebook and though I'd share. http://www.boredpanda.com/mom-photographs-son-dogs-horse-friendship-stasha-becker-julian/

My wife is from Southwest Virginia, and we took my dad with us and spent the holiday weekend down there. Friday we did a local trail, but Saturday Dad and I did an extra hour of driving and Hiked a place called the Cascades in Jefferson National Forest, just north of Blacksburg. This is...

I decided to try a new groomer, as our old one is quite a distance away. I didn't get the greatest of vibes when we walked in; nothing I could put my finger on, just a lot of little things, but figured I'd give them a shot anyway. Of course they said they did a lot of newfies, but the...

We adopted Lilly from a local shelter just over a year ago. She came to us with mild ear and eye infections, which cleared up with medication, but seemed to return as soon as the medication ended. The severe Uterine infection came next, and when the Vet said they had never seen one that bad...

Had my spring yard cleanup this weekend, and during the 2 hours it took me to fill 3 garbage bags with canine provided fertilizer, my brain decided to occupy itself with poetry... I like big newfs and a cannot lie their kisses never leave you dry but when the snow all melts the backyard smells...

Saw this little ball of fluff at the Lake Orion Dog Park yesterday. The owner couldn't remember the name of the breeder, but I believe she said it was somewhere down in Ohio. Born November 5th. Just curious of any of our people know him? Now named Zeus.

A family friend had an incident a few days ago, she was out with her 2 kids walking their 18 month old Wire Haired Pointing Griffon Falkor, when they were attacked by a couple of "unsupervised" pit bulls. She and the kids are fine, as Falkor got between them and took the brunt of it, including...

Normally the pups aren't allowed in our room at night, but since my wife was working last night, I thought I'd see how it would go. Not sure this is conducive to a good nights sleep...

This was just on the news yesterday in Grand Rapids Mi, seems like I saw something about this recently somewhere else too. They say Newf Mix, but he looks pretty solid newf to me...

Wife is working, not much to do, and I have just realized that my evening movie choice was based on the fact that it has a newfie in it...

After reading Bob's post on Mary's birthday, his blog from her litter and the ripoffreport link, I google'd the breeder we got Bessa from. I have run into a couple of people that got puppies from, and noone was particularly happy. The top posting here...

We had a family event on Saturday at my parents house, and since it is a two hour drive, we took the pups and spent the night. Dinner was done, and we had 10-12 people crowded into the kitchen/dining area (open concept house) playing cards and hanging out when my sister noticed Bessa had...

I take Bessa swimming at a local dog park a couple times a week, and she is always excited about it, but it doesn't come anywhere near this off-leash park we found on in Muskegon, right on Lake Michigan. Doesn't know where she's going yet, but excited to be there! Took her a while to...

I posted a while ago that when we got Bessa's registration tags in April, we brought home a 10 year old English Lab that we found at the shelter named Lilly. A little overweight but just an awesome disposition. The shelter gave us a little bit of a run-around about whether or not she was...

She decided to play "Keep away" the other day, and I tried snapping a couple of pics with my phone. Most didn't turn out (my phone takes horrible motion shots) but I did catch one as she stopped short in front of me with all of her fur flopping forward. Struck me as cute/funny enough to...

Bessa has been showing some white on her hindparts, and I had figured that she would lose it when she blew her puppy coat. Then we ran into this guy at the dog park last weekend, and I had to call that into question. Not that it's a major deal, I'm just curious if anyone knows how common...