Would You Like Your Heart Lifted?

[AGBF]

I came across this by chance. It was like being outside alone and having a few, perfect snowflakes start to fall on me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zUNQUkbPyM

Deb/AGBF

 

[isaku5]

Awww, so cute!!

 

[Skippy123]

aww so sweet thank you for sharing

 

[iheartscience]

Ha, adorable! Do you have any new pics of Griffin for us?!

 

[tuffyluvr]

Oh my gosh, what a wonderful video!!! I think it gave me a cavity!

 

[JewelFreak]

What sweet patient dogs.

 

[iLander]

I like the way the dog said "no, I'm not moving my paw so you can sit there." And the kid's like "Mom, he won't move his paw!" That was funny.

 

[luv2sparkle]

So very sweet! What gentle and loving dogs.

 

[movie zombie]

her nuzzleing the dogs! so cute.

 

[Imdanny]

 

[HollyS]

(Deb, did you read the Karen books by Marie Killilea? You're about the right age, like me, to have read them.)


Newfs are wonderfully calm dogs - - gentle giants. Makes me want to go find a big doggie and have a snuggle.

 

[bright ice]

Now, that's just too precious

 

[lulu]

Thanks, I needed that!

 

[Hera]

Awwww, how precious!!! I just love how she moves in to sit on the dog's lap.

 

[justginger]

This is SO sweet. I wish we didn't leave in such a hot area, Newfs are just gorgeous.

 

[Haven]

Thank you for sharing this, Deb.

It truly lifted my heart.

 

[yssie]

They make such a sweet trio

 

[baby nurse]

Love this.

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Precious!!!

 

[Amys Bling]

So sweet!!

 

[AGBF]

(Deb, did you read the Karen books by Marie Killilea? You're about the right age, like me, to have read them.)

Sorry to take so long to answer you, Holly. No, I haven't read the Karen books (or heard of them). And you are a decade younger than I am, which might explain it! Tell me about them. By the way, do you know the Henry and Mudge books by Cynthia Rylant (who also writes other wonderful animal books)? I know them because of my daughter! Mudge is very much like a Newf!

Deb

 

[mrs jam]

Deb, I love that video, and I love your snowflake analogy.

I've just whiled away almost an hour watching Newfoundlands on YouTube. I love this one of a Newfie's first snow day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX31FkIMjPI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[AGBF]

Deb, I love that video, and I love your snowflake analogy.

I've just whiled away almost an hour watching Newfoundlands on YouTube. I love this one of a Newfie's first snow day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX31FkIMjPI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Wow! mrs jam you surely did put a smile on my face this grey February afternoon here in Connecticut! And I am not kidding! It's plastered on me even as I have to go visit my daughter in the hospital. That Newfie playing in the snow was the best thing I have seen in ages.... But he looks exactly like my own Newfie playing in the snow, a dog who has been a great gift to me and to my daughter as well. (I just wish we had had more snow this winter!)

I loved our other dogs with all my heart, but our Newfoundland has been an entirely different experience for our family, more a caretaker than a dog. When he starts to fly through the air-this giant becomes airbourne-it is just magic!!! (And in the snow he does take flight, just like the dog in the video! He looks as if he could be an antelope instead of the hulking bear he usually appears to be!)

Thank you ever so much for posting!!!

Hugs,
Deb

 

[isaku5]

Pure bliss!

 

[HollyS]

(Deb, did you read the Karen books by Marie Killilea? You're about the right age, like me, to have read them.)

Sorry to take so long to answer you, Holly. No, I haven't read the Karen books (or heard of them). And you are a decade younger than I am, which might explain it! Tell me about them. By the way, do you know the Henry and Mudge books by Cynthia Rylant (who also writes other wonderful animal books)? I know them because of my daughter! Mudge is very much like a Newf!

Deb

You can probably find them on Amazon.com. They aren't fiction; Karen Killilea was born in 1940 with cerebral palsy. Her mother wrote the books about the family's efforts to provide a normal life and the best possible medical care for their daughter. Marie Killilea was instrumental in organizing parents and professionals into what eventually became The United Cerebral Palsy Foundation.

Anyway . . . the reason I mentioned the books is because Karen (as a teenager) raised champion Newfs. Eventually, the family had 3 or 4 dogs of this breed because they loved them so much. Marie had rewritten her first book about Karen into a children's book, Wren, and later wrote another children's book, Newf.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Killilea

 

[AGBF]

(Deb, did you read the Karen books by Marie Killilea? You're about the right age, like me, to have read them.)

Sorry to take so long to answer you, Holly. No, I haven't read the Karen books (or heard of them). And you are a decade younger than I am, which might explain it! Tell me about them. By the way, do you know the Henry and Mudge books by Cynthia Rylant (who also writes other wonderful animal books)? I know them because of my daughter! Mudge is very much like a Newf!

Deb

You can probably find them on Amazon.com. They aren't fiction; Karen Killilea was born in 1940 with cerebral palsy. Her mother wrote the books about the family's efforts to provide a normal life and the best possible medical care for their daughter. Marie Killilea was instrumental in organizing parents and professionals into what eventually became The United Cerebral Palsy Foundation.

Anyway . . . the reason I mentioned the books is because Karen (as a teenager) raised champion Newfs. Eventually, the family had 3 or 4 dogs of this breed because they loved them so much. Marie had rewritten her first book about Karen into a children's book, Wren, and later wrote another children's book, Newf.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Killilea

I'm glad I saw that you had posted a reply to this thread before it disappeared to the next page! I will go to Amazon, Holly! Did the Newfs play a role in helping to provide Karen with that normal life? Or was it simply the result of the way she lived? Raising them certainly sounds wonderful to me! Thank you for the heads up!

Deb

 

[Snicklefritz]

Seriously cute! But I think my brain needs adjusting cuz after reading the title, I thought this thread was about some new form of cosmetic surgery, ha!