HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRAISE!!!

Its Braisey's birthday!

Sending big furry love across the globe to Braise's brother and sister Shining Star ( New Guinea) & (Tahiti)

Lucky Star they all turn 1 today.
Braise enjoyed a tasty cake of bacon, chicken, beef & his puppy euk...! yummy.

Compostable Dog

My hand & arm. Braises enormous gooby floppy chops & throat. Not a pretty picture is it.

So I entered the unknown territory yesterday afternoon of my big boys throat. Not for fun but to try to retrieve a 100% biodegradable compost bag that Mr dirt eating, compost snaffling Dane consumed whilst I was watching and telling him not too.

These bags are home to the daily potato & carrot clippings, used sad looking teabags (not the type previously discussed - last post)and random nail clippings (ewww). When the said bag is full it is laid to rest in a hole in the earth in our front garden.

Its now come to my attention that my dirty nosed young man assumes these care full placed packages are present to HIM. Not so.

On instinct I stupidly and not at all gracefully flung my hand (wedding rings n all) into Braise's mouth and I'm afraid a little down his throat:(

It was gone, the whole funky bag. And my arm was putrid and coated in dog slime. Etchhhherrrrt(spewish noise).

The moral of the story is great Danes swallow shit whole. Its not nice, its just their nature. I'm just great full my rings didn't fall off and I...don't really want to go there.

~Tanianni

Teabag or Handbag?

After ignoring the blatently obvious absence of more than 4 months, she will continue to write...
Much to my horror I have discovered that when a male dog is desexted the baggy bit that the fertlie baby making round(BALLS!) shaped thingys came out of is
....left behind???
Big fat WTF!
And moreso, why?
Why do they need it , what is it good for and hello? It looks so so bad.
Braise is going to the vet in 2 hours time to have this surgery and I am planning on begging and pleading with Doc to trim the excess...
I finally have a new phone and camera so will take a photo (of his beautiful face:) this evening. He has again grown alot Ill add his weight later also.
So my question is in a little dog ive heard this bit of skin leftovers be called a teabag...so whats Brasiey's? Ewwwwwww a handbag.

Strong as an Ox

And brave as a bull, my boy is getting H-uge! Weighing in at 50kgs now Braise is well on his weigh(!) to tipping the scales as the biggest creature at our house...if Husband can keep his weight in check (a beautiful blossoming vegie garden helps) our Braisel may pip him at the post as the biggest male in our hood.

Husband tries to keep a firm grip on Alpha Male Status by displaying chest pumping feats of strength and endurance( well ride on mowing IS hard work and DOES take ALL day). But I wonder if there is a sense of competition with the other male of the household. Braise is feeling more secure with his sense of, well, security?

He has undergone pretty intensive guarding (guard dog) training from his big sister Pede who has a thunderous and quite intimidating bark, or so I've been told. Braise's bark is something like this "ARRR ROOOF" and he seems to work on it daily, with plenty of practise, the council workers who have been doing roadworks in our street, the electricity company repairng the lines out the front of our house all last week, our poor new neighbour Mark, random birds, bats and any car that dare enter our driveway ALL cop and earfull of my boy trying out his new trick.

Hes very proud of this new feat and you should SEE Pede's head held high with pride when she watches him bark. He hehe:)

Anyway hope we can get out and about this weekend, a bit of park time or beach time for Braise and Pede. Will keep you posted.

P.S Heres a pic of Braisey one day old...awwwwww

~tanianni

Dear Aunty Em Aunty Em

Firstly, my amazing mother has been very pre occupied this last week, attending to the needs of the little people. One in particular who has been totting around wearing a sling which looks so chewable, I am holding my baited (beefy) breath in high hopes that it will be mine to chew to unrecognisability once they are done with it. The sling, not the little person.

Secondly I am happy to play second fiddle to these little humans as I have the capacity to understand the concept of BIRTH ORDER and the way it affects a family as a whole. I will make room in the shed and save a space on the floor for if my mother ever brings home another small person. Pede will just have to shove over.

Thirdly, I recall MS Holla's blog was in abandonment status for over a month just recently. So HA! Double HA HA!

With all that unplesentness out of the way, I hope you are looking after my cousin Bella like the princess she is....damn shame we are related cause I think she is very beautiful. Id like to share a bowl of spaghetti with her( in a Lady and the Tramp kind of way) MWAH Bella!

Check.

~Braise

Its Valentines, LOve.

I don't think Braise realised it was Valentines Day yesterday, however he has showing all signs than cupid had launched an arrow right into his a*#!

We had a day filled with sloppy big kisses and some would call it "underfoot" but he really was my shadow from am to pm. Adorable big hunk and Braisey I love you to pieces!!

Just have to add that the photo qualitly of any pic that I happen to be in may not be fantastic as they are usually taken by my 3year old friend who is an keen photog. just not very experienced yet. "Its too late to pologize...........