We had a little snowstorm in Anchovy-town this morning. Here are the girls out in the backyard after playing with their buddies at the dog park. It stopped after about five inches of snow fell. Beautiful.
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Stem Cells for Dogs?
The Toronto Star published an article yesterday about a 7 year old Newfoundland dog getting stem cell therapy with apparent success. Check out the article. Lexi is the first dog to have stem cell treatments entirely in Canada.
Grooming Day
From time to time, we get the dogs groomed. For Newfs, this mean a really good bath, followed by blowdrying and brushing as well as a bit of trimming, especially around their feet. Getting this trimming done means they only bring in huge amounts of… Read More
Memphis and Ellie Mae visit Santa
They would have just written letters to Santa, outlining what smelly treats they like best, but they don’t have opposable thumbs. Every time they try to write they end up chewing the pen to bits. So we sallied forth to visit Santa.
Shedding Continues
Memphis doesn’t blow her coat quite as dramatically as Ellie Mae but you can see in the picture I’m still getting a lot of underfur as I groom her.
The dogs are still shedding…
…so I brushed them both out thoroughly this morning, filling another grocery bag with fur. I trimmed around their paws as well, and clipped the nails that needed clipping. Newfs grow fur underneath their paws and down over their paw and behind them as well.… Read More
Ellie Mae is blowing her coat
Newfs shed twice each year, in spring and in fall. There’s a little residual shedding in between, but mostly they blow their coat twice each year and when they do, a lot of hair comes off. I brushed Ellie Mae today and stuffed a grocery… Read More
An Afternoon Walk
Both our dogs caught kennel cough at the local dog park. They’ve been on anti-biotics and we haven’t been letting them run around much. Today, they were both obviously feeling better. I didn’t know if they were still contagious or not so instead of taking… Read More
Kennel cough
Kennel cough has infected a number of local dogs. Memphis picked it up and now Ellie Mae too. Both of them are on anti-biotics, as the problem is bacterial. They should be OK in a few days.
Happy Thanksgiving
For those down in America thinking wtf is he going on about, Canadian Thanksgiving happens in October. It’s kind of like American Thanksgiving, but hold the Pilgims, hold the college football.
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