We took the dogs out for a walk this afternoon over to the dog-swimming beach. Now this isn’t a beach designated by the City for dogs to swim or anything like that. It’s just an excellent beach for dogs to swim, and lots of the local dogs and humans have figured that out.  Today it was busy because several people had decided to watch the Air Show from the dog beach. Families were bringing picnic lunches down and I saw one family coming down to the beach with an extra-large pizza box. Fortunately for everyone involved, Memphis and Ellie Mae didn’t see the pizza box. Pizza is their very favourite  food. In that way I suppose Newfoundland dogs are a lot like humans.

Memphis likes to swim out after a red ball. She’ll go after a tennis ball or a stick but she really likes the rubber red balls. You know, the expensive kind. Memphis will fetch a red-ball from the lake over and over and over again. The trick is to figure out when she’s finally tuckered out one throw before she shows you by watching the expensive red ball being hurled in the lake and then lying down in the sand for a wee rest.

While Memphis likes to swim for quite a while, Ellie Mae prefers to go in for a dip then roll around on the sand enjoying the beach. Sometimes she’ll get up for a second dip. Once swimming is done, her goal is to have the maximum amount of sand stick to her fur for the walk back so she can deposit it on the floor at home later. In the picture above, you can just see the red ball that Memphis is chasing.