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An angel of a woman, Brenda of San Francisco, had seen him trying to cross San Pablo Avenue, which if you know the area you know that it's the busiest street for a black dog to try to cross at night.

Wow, what an ordeal!  Yes I know all about San Pablo Ave.  I was doing a transfer for work about 5 months ago and I had to go over there.  On my way back I saw a beautiful German Shepard laying dead in the road on San Pable Ave.  It broke my heart and my whole day was ruined after that.  Glad Bear's adventure had a better ending.

How on earth did you teach him to "whisper" I've read that other people said their newfs "whisper" too....

It's really easy, we taught Drake during one wine soaked evening in Tahoe.  Just get your dog's favorite treat and make them sit in front of you.  Lean close and whisper, "whisper" to them and have the treat ready to give to them once they do it.  I promise you'll get Bava to do it very quickly.  It is so freaking cute when they do it.  They buck their head back and forth and sort of wheeze, like they have laringitis.  Lots of laughs!!!  Then you will be known as the Newf Whisperer.   

Drake doesn't bark much unless he we're wrestling around or playing and he wants his ball or he hears raccoons outside.  When he want's his ball it's sort of an impatient "Woof!" but when he hears something outside, he does what we call the "Scream Bark".  It's always at night when we all are falling asleep in front of the TV.  He will appear to be sleeping and then all of the sudden he lets out a loud single bark that wakes us up with a heart attack.  Then, if he happens to be sleeping on the hardwood floor, he tries to get up as fast as he can and ends up digging big grooves into the floor.  Every scratch noise is like fingernails on the chalkboard, we try to get him to sleep on his dog bed now but he prefers the cool floor.  So once he gets up, he growls until he gets to the sliding door and then it's, "Woo-woo-WOOOOOOOO!"  You can actually feel his barks!  So to placate him, we let him out and he can't get through the door fast enough.  You can hear him flying down the deck, paint getting ripped up with every step, and more scream barks.  On the flip side, we have taught him to "whisper" for treats, it's pretty funny and very cute.

He's 8 weeks old and his eyes aren't open yet?  That seems weird, is something wrong with kitty?  He looks really big for a little kitten, he's going to be a huge cat I guess.    So did you rescue him from a shelter?  I guess I must have missed some earlier posts.

Okay, I admit it. I started saving Jackie's fur last night.   

Julie

As my great-grandmother who lived through the depression said, WASTE NOT, WANT NOT!!!  It will be so cool to have a Newf Fur hat to wear as I fly down the slopes in Lake Tahoe.  Oh god, I think something has started here.  It will be interesting to see the final products from all this doggy fur collecting.  More to come...

And Brandon, yeah I heard about that, putting dog fur out to attract birds.  It does work.  We still have a lot of birds around even though it's getting cold.  The hummingbirds are still fighting over the nectar I leave out like Crackheads fighting over a Crack rock and the bird seed feeder is cleaned out on a weekly basis by Sparrows and Jays.  Hungry little buggers!

I don't have alot saved, just a grocery bag full.  I plan on having it made into a scarf and hat.  I don't like wool sweaters, so I doubt I would like a dog hair sweater.   

I will have to remember that website mentioned.

Here it is, might be worth putting on your Favorites list/bookmarking or just printing up the home page for filing away:

http://www.vipfibers.com/

I think a hat or scarf might be in order since I don't wear a lot of sweaters.  Maybe after this winter I will have enough for a blanket.  We're going to tell our groomer to collect his fur after clipping him, they will probably think we are weird but it will be nice and extra clean.  It is worth sending cleaner fur because they charge to clean dirty stuff. 

Moni, the poem you shared choked me up a bit.  Any writing about dying dogs or old dogs seems to do that to me, so I guess I'm a softie....  a real man cries when his dog dies.

hmm, I thought they were always waiting longer with these dogs to give the owners a chance to find their dogs.  Wonder what happened?

Seeing as I'm hearing stories of mass euthanasia and they are sending tons of dogs over here to the west coast, I don't think they are waiting very long for anything.  Many dogs were left tied to houses because their owners foolishly thought they wouldn't be gone very long and that was the only way to keep them there.  Many of these dogs starved or strangled themselves on their tie-downs.  Sad stuff.  But I think that at least organizations are trying to find good homes for these dogs rather than euthanizing them because their owners took too long to find them.  Many of these dogs are going to live better lives with their new owners, the hurricane may have been the best thing that ever happened to them.  Imagine, a dog is abused, neglected and underfed for years by it's owners.  Katrina comes, the dog is left behind and is later rescued.  Now it lives in Marin County with it's new rich owners, sleeps on silk pillows, gets lots of love and exercise, eats Kibble mixed with Filet Mignon and drinks bottled water every day.  Wouldn't that be great?  It COULD happen......   

Glad you found Bear, must be a relief!  How did you end up getting him back?  I'm interested in hearing the reunion story.