And the Winner is… Hookworm!

Well it appears that my recent intestinal distress is caused by a blood-sucking little nasty called a hookworm. For those unfamiliar with these parasitic little bastards, just do a quick googling – every site seems to show the little razor-like teeth that they have.  I’d been experiencing some loss of appetite and some pretty funky…

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57 Pounds of Pure Love

Damn I’m getting big. I’m just shy of 8 months old and already 57 pounds according to the vet. All big burly manly muscle, I say, it couldn’t be that I’m carrying several extra pounds of hair around with me or anything like that… While we were waiting for the results of yesterday’s fecal flotation…

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The Airedales! on Dogster

Are you on Dogster.com?  I am!  I do it mainly to keep mom off of all of the other human-related sites, keeps her busy looking at other Airedales and thinking about me, me, me…. So if you are (or if you aren’t but are thinking of joining) I just started a group.  I noticed that…

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Bogart’s Anal Probe

For once in my relatively short life I’m glad that mom’s camera isn’t working. Today I had to go to the vet because I have some sort of weird skin thing going on on my tummy. That and I’ve had a touch of the diarrhea lately. Mom and dad thought better safe than sorry, and…

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Funkadelic

Today I was planning to bring you artistic photos of myself in the bath. You know, bubbles posed strategically, me looking happy, wet fur pressed to my skin, avocado shampoo being applied… But mom’s camera is ailing. She THINKS it’s just the digital card (and she has a NEW camera that she SHOULD use when…

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Bogie By the Sea

Today was fun with Oma & Opa… they really like to go everywhere which is great!!!  I only got left at home a few times while they were here (which you’d never know because someone – not mentioning any names MOM – kept forgetting her camera) and today I tagged along for the whole day.…

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Oma & Opa

Well mom said I was going to be surprised and I really was!!! It turns out that I have a grandma and grandpa in Austria and they came to visit!!!  Mom has been really distracted and keeps “forgetting” to bring the camera along, missing all of my golden moments with my new grandparents. But I’m…

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Good Microbrew

Supposed to rain today, huh mom?  Supposed to be no dog park today?  Supposed to be able to sleep late, right mom? Well surprise surprise… no rain.  So we did get to cruise through the dog park and I managed to not hump anyone the entire time – amazing. Since it turned out to be…

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