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I haven't posted any Kyra news in a while...life has been all consuming the last couple of months, but I thought I would take a little break and put up this video. Kyra is in the pool or the lake several times a day this time a year and it's tough to keep her from mildewing. Here's how I keep...

I love trees and they often have such character, e.g. stately, beautiful, delicate, gnarly, lonely, old and tired, young and exuberant, light and airy, deep and dark, fun loving, a survivor, etc. But capturing that character with a camera shot has always been a challenge. For this challenge...

I have a friend who writes a column about dogs for a newspaper in Florida. She sends pictures of various different dogs to the papers and they select the picture to accompany the article. I guess I had given her some pictures of my two and they got chosen to appear in a couple of recent...

I haven't posted much in the way of Kyra since her surgery, but today was nice and I let her have a supervised roam about the yard. Here are a few pics of that and a typical evening setting in our household. Kyra with her strange after surgery hair cut. Having a nice chew in the sunshine...

Our first jonquils opened up this morning. I'd love to see other's photos of spring arriving in their area.

Finally some real charges on this. http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/06/news/international/china_pet_food.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes

Oops! I meant to post this in the Photos section. Sorry Yesterday was Kyra's 8th day after her bilateral TPLO surgery and she was feeling all the emotions from "I feel great" to "I'm so sad" to "I'm so frustrated." I'll post a few pics from her day.

For those of you interested in gory detail, here are a few of the x-rays of the TPLO plates and screws used in Kyra's knees. Screws in left knee. Screws in right knee. Plate in left knee. Plate in right knee. The TPLO plates. Click here for some really detailed pictures of TPLO...

Kyra had her bilateral TPLO surgery this Friday and everything went very well. They kept her in the hospital through the weekend since it was a bilateral and she only had two good legs left. They wanted to make sure everything was OK before letting her come home. We decided on the TPLO instead...

Kyra was trying to recover from a small tear in her one of her ACLs when yesterday, the ACL on the other leg completely tore and separated. So now she has one ACL completely gone and the other one half gone. After much discussion with our vet and the orthopedic surgeon, we decided on the TPLO...

I wish I could join in on all of the nice winter pictures with Newfies enjoying the snow, but unfortunately, we're just getting warm weather here in NC. Today, the temp was up to 70° F (21° C). Here are a couple of pics of my fur kids enjoying a warm winter day. Kyra waiting patiently at the...

Earlier this week, Kyra started favoring her back right leg. At first, I thought it might be just a little stiffness from a lot of exercise we had in the woods and along the lake the day before, but when it didn't get any better the next day, we made an appointment with the vet. It turns out...

Kyra has never barked or made a sound except occasionally when she wants a door opened, she'll let out a single bark and wait patiently for you to come open it. Even when the doorbell rings and Chester carries on like we're under attack, Kyra never lets out a peep. The other day, inspired by...

Inspired by Ina's Women...#2 I changed husband to "significant other", but I think the same words could also apply to men. What about the men here? Where do you go for personal space? I know we're seriously outnumbered here on Newf Net, but it should still be interesting to compare. Maybe not...

How does everybody wear out their Newfies on bad weather days? It's finally raining here in NC, but it's been so long, I've forgotten how to wear out Kyra when it's nasty outside. She doesn't mind the rain, but I don't really want to go out for a 2 hour walk/run in it and she doesn't want to go...

I take Kyra swimming every day in Falls Lake which is the water supply for the Raleigh/Durham area. The lake is starting to look very sad. The top part of this picture was taken on April 25, 2007. The bottom half on Dec. 22, 2007. Falls Lake Drought Pictures

I see a lot people here feed their dogs very small amounts of food, 2 to 4 cups per day. That seems like such a small amount. Kyra will be 18 months old later this month eats between 6 and 8 cups a day, sometimes more if we've had a particularly large amount of activity during the day. At 26...

We just got a new rescue dog, Chester. Chester and his brother had been shot about a year ago. His brother was killed and Chester was shot in the foot. My Mother-in-law took him in and had been caring for him, but she's unable to do so any more, so we took him in. Kyra's convinced we bought her...

It's 104º F today. Kyra's very unhappy with it. She wants to go out, but everytime she goes out, she gives me that look like, "Please Dad, do something about this." So what do you do? Go grab your favorite monkey stuffie and curl up on the AC vent. Oops! I meant to put this under Newfie Photos...

It appears that I've been neglectful of my duties in posting puppy pictures so I'll try to catch up in this topic. I'll start with her first day with us. She really was a little thing Here she is with her shiny new bear we got to keep her company her first night away from home. She's...