Introducing.....

April 6th 2008

Holy smokes everyone, Mamma has just finally figured out that WE NEED our own blog! After all, howelse is a Newf supposed to meet and greet? Well, this is us, beautiful aren't we (at least we think so).

Mamma's Note: yes, you are.

We're Nanook (up top), and Kuma (on the bottom).

Well, Mamma has just finished moving my sister Nanook and I into our new house, and we've been having loads of fun chasing each other into the local duck pond and getting all slimy and stinky, just the way nature intended! After speaking to our new friends, Pooka and Nanook, all the way over in America, Mamma discovered a new toy, and wouldn't you know it, lucky us, it's on it's way in the post, boy oh boy i can't wait till it arrives and i get to chew it all up. Mamma told us that it's a squeaky hide-a-squirrel, Nooks got all excited when she heard a squeaker was on it's way, she had to do a little happy dance all over the back yard. Mamma and I couldn't stop laughing! She's a bit of a silly one when it comes to squeakers, that sister of mine.

Well i guess i should tell you a little bit about myself shouldn't I? My name is Kuma (mamma told me when i was a little one that it's japanese for bear - fitting huh?). I'm 9 yrs old now, and I LOVE going and meeting all my friends at doggie school, I go every thursday and sunday mornings, i'm a pretty clever girl too, i'm in the "Top Dog Class", i've won trophies thingies and everything! But i don't laze around all day, my job at the moment is as a "Therapy Dog". I go to the local retirement homes, and visit the residents living there. My mamma says she's very proud of me for doing that, as it makes the people living there feel better, me, i just like to be the centre of attention (isn't that what i was born to be?). My mamma says i look like someone called "May West", because when i walk into the centres for my visits, i strutt in with my nose up in the air, and my eyes half shut, and i swish my way down the corridors. I tell you, howelse is a Newf supposed to make an entrance, if not a grand one?

My favourite thing is this new green soft ball that Mamma bought for me and Nooks to share, it's squishy, and hollow, and Mamma buys a chew stick to put through the middle of it, it keeps me busy all day chewing on it, but you know what, no matter HOW HARD I TRY, i can't destroy it! Apparently, that's exactly the reason Mamma bought it, it was advertised as indestructable! Well, you know what, i'm just gonna have to prove them wrong and keep working on it.

Well, i better let Nooks say hello i guess, she's chewing on my ear trying to drag me out of the way, Bye for now.

Hi all, my name is Nanook, finally, i get to say hello to everyone. Man oh Man can Kuma talk! Well anyways, I'm 5 and a half yrs old, and, unlike my sister, the destroyer, MY favourite thing is just to lean up against anyone who'll let me, and get cuddled. I mean, really, who cares about anything else - i tell you, it's all about the love. Second only to cuddles, is the squeakers. There's no such thing as another dog having a squeaker when i can hear or smell it. If i can fit it into my gob, it's mine! And you know the really great thing, when Mamma takes us to school, THERE'S A WHOLE BEACH BAG OF THEM!!!!! Just sitting there, for any smart newf like me to help themselves! Pretty cool huh? For me, that's the ONLY reason to go to school, i'd much rather sit under a nice big tree and chew on a squeaker, let Kuma do all the work, that's what i say!

Well, anyway, i guess we'd better take off for now, Mamma just waved the key thingies and asked the magic question "who's ready for the park", silly i ask you, as if ANY well bred newf needs to BE READY for the park!

Well, woofs and tail wags to everyone,

Kuma and Nooks