by Giacomo Giammatteo | Jul 5, 2014
Sometimes A Herding Dog Herds Everything Flash and her sister, Kassie, were not rescues. We had lost one of our favorite dogs in an accident. I swore we wouldn’t replace her, but after about a year, we decided to get a new puppy. We opted for an Australian Shepherd...
by Giacomo Giammatteo | Jul 5, 2014
The Wild Dog Who Adopted Us Bear was unlike any dog we have ever had. I didn’t say owned because nobody owned Bear. If anything, he adopted us, not the other way around. We don’t know where he came from, or how old he is, but we made a pretty good estimate of the age....
by Giacomo Giammatteo | Jul 5, 2014
A Little Great Dane With A Big Heart Sandy is not a small dog, weighing in at 90 lbs., but she is small for a Great Dane. She’s built more like a greyhound, with a big chest and a narrow stomach, and she has blazing speed. When you look at her standing next to...
by Giacomo Giammatteo | Jul 5, 2014
Smiling Dogs I love smiling dogs. There is something special about a dog who greets you with a curl of the lip, a turned-up jowl, or a full-faced snarl/smile. I mention snarl because on many of the dogs who display full-faced smiles, it sometimes appears as if they...
by Giacomo Giammatteo | Jul 5, 2014
A Big Girl Briella is one of the largest female dogs I’ve ever seen. She’s a Great Dane, and at one time we think she might have been the biggest, or close to the biggest female dog in the world. I didn’t spend a lot of time researching it, but back in 2011 we...
