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Awwww... I'm a sucker for Newf puppies. I'm trying to convince my husband that Rosie needs a sibling.

Rosie supposedly had a small white spot on her chest, but by the time we got her (2 years), she'd lost all her white coloring. It seems like eventually all that black fur overcomes the white and they turn to completely black with age.

On our last trip to the lake, we went with some friends of ours who have two labrador retrievers. One was quite the frisbee fetcher in the water. When Rosie saw one of the labs in the lake fetching the frisbee, she immediately sprung to action, paddling the fastest we've ever seen before toward the lab. When she caught up to him, she was trying to grab onto his neck to bring him to shore. It was the funniest thing EVER! The black lab was probably thinking 'Leave me alone. I know how to swim. I don't need saving!'. After Rosie attempted to 'save' him a couple more times, she finally figured out he didn't need her help. She seemed disappointed.

Thanks for the recommendation s.

What brand do you want to feed her?

Rosie's actually on a Royal Canin dry kibble urinary diet prescribed by the vet. We thought the vet was closed all this week for 4th of July, and would have to get 'over-the-counter' wet food. It turns out the vet's open and we were able to get some canned urinary food for her.

Rosie's had a string of bad luck over the last couple years. She tore her ACL last year, requiring TPLO surgery on her back right leg. Then they found that she has a dislocating kneecap on the same leg just a few months ago, which now also requires surgery to correct. And on the day they were supposed to do that surgery, they found her TPLO bone plate on that leg had gotten infected and needed to be removed, so they did so. And then after they'd removed the bone plate, she started to show lameness on the opposite leg which was later diagnosed as a temporary cartilagenous embolism in her spine. Her lameness on the leg has gone away, but she still remains on antibiotics now to ensure that infection on her TPLO leg is completely treated.

Anyway, with the long streak of bad luck, sometimes we feel that Rosie feels less like a dog... especially with having to be contained indoors and not being able to go on her normal walks. So we've started bringing her to the lake for some 'water therapy', which is both good for her legs and her spirits. She loves saving the buoy and at least she can feel 'normal' for a while. She still has the surgery to correct her dislocating kneecap ahead of her, but until then, we'll be taking a few trips to the lake.

We were trying desperately to feed Rosie SOMEthing after her surgery. She would refuse everything, things she would inhale in a second if she was feeling well. But with a fever and feeling like crud, she was NOT into eating at all. And it was important that she eat in order to get well again.

Satin balls were the only thing she would eat. We cooked them in the oven instead of feeding them raw (since we'd never fed her a raw diet before and didn't want to start right when she wasn't feeling well) and she just loved them. Now we're struggling to get her back to eating her usual dry kibble. She's no longer on satin balls, but she's only accepting wet canned food so far.

Rosie sends birthday greetings to Drake! You're Rosie's idol, as you ARE the original sliding Drake.