Or a mysterious sea creature??

My friend Amy at Big River Labradoodles and her F1B’s Emily and O’Malley had a litter of puppies on the 3rd of February. Two weeks ago my niece and I took a road trip to visit Amy and the puppies.

Momma Emily (a.k.a. The Lunch Truck!)

Did someone say “Lunch!” ???

My niece in puppy heaven…

I am hoping this little girl (she is so sweet I have dubbed ‘Dolce’) will go home to my friend Arika. Arika owned Sonagh’s brother Wrigley. Sweet, darling Wrigley had to be put down at Thanksgiving because they could not get his seizures under control. Her four year old son Max really misses and sometimes sits and talks to Wrigley’s picture! This little boy needs a dog!

No, seriously! I want to sleep in the corner this time!!

Pretty cool how I just blend in with the hippo, huh?

Collective Food Coma…

Cool! The Greta babysitter is here! Party!!

One last look at sweet wee Dolce…

And I can’t resist adding a few pictures that Amy sent me the other day:

Wee Dolce coming in for a kiss!

Orange girl

OY!  What a cutie oie!!

Take Me Home Eyes!

Don’t you just want to kiss this little chocolate nose??

Dude!  Go long!!

From my perspective, the change in Wally’s appearance after his first full grooming is pretty dramatic. He is the first dog that I have owned who is of a breed that requires regular clipping, so these kind of changes are new to me, even though I have owned dogs for decades.

Side View - Before

Side View - After

Front View - Before

Front View - After

Contrasting with Sonagh - Before

Contrasting with Sonagh - After

Stop with the camera already, Mom!

Seriously! Get that thing out of my face!

Sigh! It is so hard to deal with the Pup-arazzi!

Wally went for his first ever full body trim yesterday. Previously all he has had done are his paws, eye area and privates. All he wanted to do when he got home was drink water, go outside, eat dinner and pass out in his kennel. He was kinda crabby and wasn’t real happy about the camera flashing in his face.

Before

And the handsome boy after! He doesn’t look like a puppy any more!

 Discovering Labradoodles

Hard to believe that it has been a year since we got the good news that our new bundle of fur had been born! Here are some photos of the last year.

At a rest stop on the long ride home from Noble Vestal Labradoodles in Noblesville, Indiana. He cried for the first ½ hour or so and then was a perfect angel (naturally!) for the rest of the 12 hour trip!

Loving his new sisters, fully confident that they are as enthusiastic about playing with him as he is about playing with them. (The girls soon disabused him of this rather misguided notion.)

He is, however, completely correct in his assumption that his momma adores him!

His sometimes spooky human eyes…

A dedicated fan of that team that was soooo darn nice and named their mascot after him!

Happy camper hangin’ with his sisters.

They don’t come much cuter, do they?

Discovering Labradoodles