April 2011

A puppy’s Smokey Rescue Mission

by Alfie Entlebucher on April 30, 2011

Humans can be so ungrateful sometimes. Take yesterday for example. My humans had gathered a big pack of friends and they were relaxing in the sunshine with a beer or two. I was resting in the shade, supervising the activities whilst gnawing a marrow bone. Suddenly something shiny and white caught my eye and I [...]

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Friday Foto Fun – and this weeks dog photo challenge theme is…

April 29, 2011

The first week of my photo challenge went really well I think, especially since I launched it on Good Friday and most humans and their dogs are busy over that period! There were some amazing looking yellow themed photos of dogs looking cool and drooly, and other dogs relaxed with their humans or simply just put on [...]

Puppy to the rescue: Getting rid of the brown spots and patches in our lawn

April 28, 2011

Dog laying on grass with brown patches from dog urine

I’ve spent lots more time than usual in our garden in the last couple of weeks. Partly because of the hot weather but also because my humans have been out there playing with me and chilling in the shade. During winter the lawn was pretty muddy and I didn’t really pay much attention to it [...]

Relaxing day watching ‘It’s me or the Dog’ on TV

April 28, 2011

There is nothing like chilling with recordings of your favorite TV shows, I even like the educational ones and my humans let me watch dog training shows in the hope that I might pick up some skills. This was a very exciting episode of ‘It’s me or the Dog’ and dog trainer Victoria Stilwell taught [...]

The Easter Frisbee that sank like a stone

April 23, 2011

The Easter bunny brought me a shiny and new yellow frisbee – it was so pretty and smelled wonderfully of rubber. I’ve never owned a frisbee before, but I’ve always been jealous of the humans playing with them in the park and I’ve tried to catch their frisbee a couple of times. Anyway, I unwrapped [...]

Friday Foto Fun – My new Photo Challenge launching today!

April 22, 2011

Today is the big day when I’m launching my new photo challenge – I’m so excited a can’t stop spinning around! As it is the Easter season I thought the theme ‘Yellow’ would be appropriate. Think big and be creative – there are lots of yellow things around. I first thought I’d take a photo [...]

Hot, hot, hot

April 20, 2011

Entlebucher Mountain Dog Running Alfies Blog

How can it be so hot in April already? My black coat gets heated up in notime and I can only play with one, maybe two dogs before I have to break for a drink and rest in the shade. The mud has dried up as well so there is no real escape. I’m wondering [...]

A puppy’s view on crate sizes

April 19, 2011

I took my humans to the pet shop on Sunday. Actually it wasn’t quite that easy, first I had to spend all morning complaining about my crate, describing in detail how much I hate it because it is too small and how their bed looks so much more comfortable. They weren’t listening of course – [...]

Up for a photo challenge?

April 14, 2011

Last night I had the most amazing idea. I was half asleep on the cow hide in our living room, the humans were watching TV and everything was peaceful. Then, suddenly they changed channels and there it was – a dog on TV! It was a still image of what looked like a really cute [...]

A puppy’s view on barking at everything

April 11, 2011

Alfie Entlebucher watching the sausages being BBQ'd

As an adolescent Entlebucher puppy I find it is important to speak my mind. After all, I am part of the family so my opinion should count too. I’m also growing to love the sound of my own voice. Its like I can’t get enough of hearing my deep bark – I do sound like [...]

How mud can save a dog from heat stroke

April 8, 2011

I met up with Raffi today. He is my oldest friend from the park and he is the one who introduced me to mud diving back in the cold winter months. Back then, we just did it for a bit of fun. You jump in, run around, chase each other a little before putting your [...]

Peeing Guidelines for puppies learning to Cock their Leg

April 6, 2011

At the age of six months most of us male puppies feel confident enough to announce our presence and mark the trees and lamp posts near our house. I’ve been looking forward to this for months, and had kind of assumed it would all happen naturally – I imagined I would just simply wake up [...]

Celebrating a Dog’s Birthday in style

April 3, 2011

I went to my very first dog birthday party today. My friend Archie turned 1 and threw his party at the Windmill Cafe in Wimbledon Park. Some of my best friends were invited and I met some new buddies too. We spent some time sniffing each other’s butts and wrestling, before getting on to the [...]