Wooo hooo! To the beach!

I was already tiring out when my 2legged mom got out the camcorder. That's why I kept going into the water to cool off.

Saltwater swimming, fetching, sand baths (several of them), what could be better. Well, some dog play pals could have made it better. Maybe next time!

Hot dog!

I don't care how hot it is out there. I still want to fetch. But when I've had enough, I go straight to the door and Dad lets me back inside. It's cooler in there, but even better, there's a fan on the floor that's just for me. I don't know how those 2lggds keep cool; I never see them with their tongues hanging out. Well, at least I know how to get some relief, even if they don't.

I know there's no way she can get hurt, but it still gives me the willies, the way she flops her tongue out right in front of the fan grill.

Kathy, Emma's 2lggd mom

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You got swimmin' you got swimmin' on your mind

My 2lggd mom sent another video postcard from Afortunado in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. This one is of uncle Pirate swimming in their swimming pool. Bling is there too, but she just watches. Shelley, who was my first 2lggd mom, is throwing. I would like to have a swimming pool like Pirate and Bling, but I guess the ocean will do. Mom says I should learn to climb a ladder like Pirate, 'cause then I would be able to get back onto the boat when we are living on the ocean.

I'd like to have access to a pool to teach Emma to dive! Perhaps I'm wrong, but I imagine it would be easier to learn to swim underwater in fresh water (vis a vis, eye comfort). And I would think visibility would be important too.

Kathy, Emma's 2lggd mom

PWD Portie Portuguese Water Dog Afortunado swimming pool video

Postcards from Wisconsin

My 2lggd mom sent me this video postcard from Wisconsin. It's my MOM!!! My REAL MOM, my 4LGGD mom! And Auntie Tip, and Uncle Pirate. And a lot of other Porties I do not recognize, but Mom (2lggd that is) tells me they are all my relations. (Sigh) looks like fun. I wish she'd taken me with her, but she says dogs can't come into her mom and dad's condo building in Minneapolis, so I'm staying home with Dad. He leaves me with Buffy for a playdate every morning, and plays chuckit till I drop every evening before dinner.

It was too bad I couldn't bring Emma along. Shelley and Bob Plucker would've enjoyed seeing her (she looks really good). I wasn't the only one of their puppy people joining them for dinner that evening. There was another visitor passing through town as well, WITH her dogs. So the yard was full of PWDs. A lovely evening.

Kathy
Emma's 2lggd mom

PWD Portie Portuguese Water Dog Afortunado

Hey, Bartender!

I have a part-time job tending bar at the Backstreet Pub in Beaufort. I can't do the job alone, need some help to open bottles, make change, etc. (darn that lack of opposable thumbs). But I work cheap, for tips (crunch, snarf, cronch). Some of the bartenders like to have me help, but some of them don't, so sometimes I just have to "belly up to the bar" on the customer side. The Pub is one of my favorite places. There's a big water bowl for me and all the other dogs that come in. I know most of the customers, and whenever someone new comes in, I make sure to show them where the biscuit jar is.

The Backstreet has a long history as a dog-friendly establishment. Bayfield, Wisconsin used to have a dog-friendly bar, and when that changed it was time to move on. Let's hope that Beaufort and the Backstreet don't change. I don't mind banning the dog-haters; let's not ban the dogs.

When Emma was about 9 months old, she suddenly decided that a big male Golden Retriever named Shack (with whom she had already played) was scary. She hid behind the bar to avoid him, and everyone thought it was so cute that they encouraged that behavior.

Unfortunatly, she later transferred her Shack anxiety to all Golden Retrievers, then Tollers and mixes, then Yellow Labs, then many other dogs, even some small, and some female. I finally, in the recent few months, worked out a strategy which turned this anxiety problem around rather quickly. But that's another story.

Kathy, Emma's 2lggd mom

PWD Portie Portuguese Water Dog Beaufort Backstreet Pub video

I know I left it around here somewhere ...

I was just sniffing something interesting ... and then I went looking for a spot to pee, just the right length of grass, with some "been there before" smells ... and then I saw a squirrel ... but then the squirrel ran up the tree ... and then there was another interesting smell. What? My ball? I left it where? where?

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Hi to Lucie and Luckie

I've made some great new PWD friends online. Lucie and Luckie are litter-sisters. I think it's really neat that they each have another pup to play with ALL THE TIME! How cool is that.

My 2lggd mom showed me their videos online, and asked me if I would like to say "Hi." So here I am sending them a little "woooof."



Not only do they have eachother to play with, but their 2lggd daddy builds them cool stuff to play on in their backyard, like this playhouse ramp thing!

Emma has been learning to speak on a hand signal (and shush on a hand signal as well, although that's often more difficult). I just wish I could put that nice roll-over on cue.

Kathy, Emma's 2lggd mom

I'm visiting Buffy today

Hi y'all (I am a Yankee Portie, transplanted to the south, so I'm practicing the lingo)!

I think it will be a fun day, because my 2lggd mom got a new camcorder, so she's looking for fun things for me to do, that she can record. So when we got to work, right away she asks me "you wanna go play with Buffy?" And I'm trying to tell her "you need to ask?" Of course I wanna play with Buffy, doggonit!!! I think it's gonna be a good day.

I have given up on the other camcorder. I was told to never buy a camcorder on ebay. Now I will try to resell that one on ebay. I have bought an RCA Small Wonder camcorder and I love it! So simple and inexpensive, and I think the videos are just great.

Kathy, Emma's 2lggd mom