It looks like Ayla will get to have a reunion with her fur-mommy and fur-sister this weekend. The breeder is supposed to come by with them and drop off her registration papers as well. We haven’t gotten the papers before because for the first few months there was an ongoing process of sending the papers back and forth to the registration commission because they kept making errors on the papers. Then winter arrived and we bought the farm so making the drive to go visit them became more inconvenient for us…and so on. But we’re giving it another try this weekend and hopefully will be able to see them all then.

We’re both a bit nervous about the meeting since we have small doubts that we’re being good Newfie parents. Ayla has been losing her baby fur so she’s looking all shaggy and maybe she’s a tiny bit overweight…although she was always the runt so her sister should still be larger than her. I’m sure our fears are pointless and the breeders have been nothing but nice in the past so it should be fine. But it should definitely be fun for Ayla who hasn’t seen them in about 6 months and will very likely be very happy to finally have someone she can play roughly with again. We haven’t managed to find anyone in the neighborhood here who is a really good play partner for her. Amelie, the Golden Retriever, she just bowls over. A lot of the dogs are too old to be interested like the Irish Wolfhounds. And others are just never outside on the trails when we are like the Bernese who lives cross the street from the walking trail.