Dogs Are Silly...

King & Sophie At Play Near Pier 39!

We took King to San Francisco & walked around Pier 39 a bit with him... It was windy & cold & we couldn't stay long, but he did draw quite a crowd when we ran into a cute little 6 month old white puppy named Sophie. Some of the action shots turned out co cool with Lil Sophie darting around him like he was standing still. She took her lead to the hilt did lots of airborne lil flips because of it - Enjoy!











I even got a brief video!

Dogs Love Trucks!

King loves to put his face out in the open breeze, even if it's traveling at 70 MPH!








Funny how he loves that kind of wind, but take him to the super windy beach & he just wants to cuddle!

See his ear blowing in the wind? So so so cold & windy that night!

A Slideshow of my King - 5-9 months - Enjoy!

Not sure why it won't let me just post it, but click here for a slide show of the last 4 months or so :-)

King The Great... Artist!

Last year, King did a beautiful abstract piece for Paws For Love, a local charity event that raises money for shelters by auctioning off artwork done by animals, as well as fantastic prizes donated by community animal lovers. We were very proud of how great King did while he was painting (especially since it was his first major outing!)

It didn't take long to find his art at the gala, as everyone was ooh'ing & ah'ing about how his was clearly the best! (Just teasing) Here's he masterpiece, Fervent Brass, & and little bio they posted about him...




Incredible right?! And he was only four months old at the time!


The whole thing wiped him out that day too...


In case you're interested in learning more about Paws For Love, click here...

New Collar, Lead & Tag!

We just got King a Red Dingo tag & a super fancy collar & just love it! They're on the expensive side, but they're so durable it's worth it!

Here's the link to Red Dingo for the tags - http://www.reddingo.net/

& if you're interested in the collar (& matching lead), they're awesome too. They're made the same way they do bridle leathers so they'll last forever. You can choose the emblems that go on them too! They don't do direct online ordering, but they have a page so you can find a dealer near you. Here's a links to their products: http://www.hotdogsalldressed.com/products.html

This is an action shot I caught last week at our local Great Dane Meetup & shows the collar & Red Dingo Tag fairly well!


On the way back he got a tad tired of me taking his picture!

King & I near Annadel... (1/17/08)

Just a couple of shots of the King & I from last Sunday:

Point Isabel: A Dog Heaven On Earth (1/15/08)

This weekend King got to go to the ultimate dog park. Seriously - It's the best in North America! We took the hour drive over the bay to check out the place the Great Dane Meet Up Group will be visiting next weekend cause we wanted to see the place & how the little King would react to it. I had no idea what we were getting into! We could have spent the whole day there! It's very easy to get to & once you're out of the parking area, it's completely off leash. There were hundreds of dogs there, but it's on 23 acres so it wasn't crowded. The dogs can run free along a path, in tree lined grassy knolls, or even take a dip right in the bay! (That's where all the silly labs were even though it was pretty cold out!) Anyway, here's some pics of King having a grand time running around, making new bestest friends, & then eventually posing for some cute pics with Mommy.













Look for new pics next week after King meets up with about 30 Great Danes!

Pics of the puppy King... (1/8/08)

My friend Sofia's dog Niobe is ill right now in Washington with Parvo. While keeping them in my prayers, here's some current pics of the (thankfully) healthy bouncy baby boy...

King already outgrowing his couch:


King playing with his toy (He LOVES stuffed animals, the bigger the better!):


King outside & dying for someone to come play ball with him:


King posing with Santa, who he kinda wanted to eat cause he's dressed in a fur suit (not unlike all his favorite toys!):


King under the Christmas tree lights:


My roommate Kenny getting King to do some tricks:


Alyssa taking King for a spin on her birthday:


More pics soon I promise - I'm getting the New Years Disneyland pics all sorted through...

Graduation Day! (12/10/07)

King graduated from intermediate Puppy School Saturday! It's the 2nd of 4 classes he'll hopefully be mastering & this one was much more intense than beginning puppy. But it also had an agility element to it too so he thought that was pretty fun! He loves going through the tunnel!



The hula hoop he's supposed to jump through was too small for him so they found a big tubey-tire thing for him instead:


Then there's a slalom type pole set up that he gets to step through. He does it fine, actually kinda of strangely. He steps over each pole on the ground like he's a horse going through a minefield! It looks so silly - but totally cute!


Here he is all ready for his graduation pics, & bored, bored, bored now that we wouldn't let him go play more!


So very proud!