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« on: April 15, 2005, 05:15:14 am »
Hello All,
I agree also that these wonderful Newfies are very intuitive. Our 2 males are very on the alert especially if I am home alone they are much more protective and watchful. They also have 2 different barks the friendly, goofy, come play with me bark and the big, deep protective bark. They always stand between me and the door for any delivery guys or strangers that come to the door.
One of the neatest instinctive things that our big male Klondike did was in the bay. He was about a year old and we were swimming in the bay with them. He was just about at the shore line going in and I started to pretend I was in trouble in the water by splashing about and calling him for help. He turned around so fast, swam out to me and backed his butt into my chest for me to grab on! It was so cool to see it gave me goose bumps! People on shore watching him were so impressed and gave him great applause when he came in! We had talked about I wonder how you get them to do that and one day he just did it! So now we are in training with our 3 Newfies for pet therapy pups and when we are at the shore in the summer we are trying to work on more water rescue.
We are so fortunate to have been introduced to this beautiful breed and are now, 3 of them later, totally hooked!
Anita from NJ
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