Kenzo the Hovawart

When I was invited as a Hovawart expert to speak for a group of new Hovawart owners a while ago - it was before Tilde - I was asked the q...

Tilde jumps a lot. Mainly because it is practical. It is about getting from A to B in the quickest way possible. She is not an avid jumper, ...

I hardly had any clinical signs to show for. Usually, whenever Viva or Kenzo had any health-issue, there always has been some kind of physic...

It bothered me. Kenzo didn't allow the young German Shepherd dog anywhere near Tilde. He hardly allowed him to move at all actually....

With two Hovawarts, I occasionally get the question from people we meet, if two dogs are twice the work. I remembered when I only had Ke...

It seems our achievements to make a perfect Hovawart lady out of "you know who I mean", is suffering a minor setback. I am afr...

If you have been reading Jan's Chickenshit post, well, Tilde wasn't finished with us yet. And this time, she was caught on camera. ...

I can see most dogs think twice before they approach. On one leash I have the Beauty, wriggling like a worm, bouncing as much as the lea...

Once you had a reactive dog, you'll never see things the same. I can see around corners, have a set of eyes in my back, and are cons...

Tilde is doing great. So are we. Like I said before, she is settling-in rapidly, especially for a Hovawart, and we already earned her comp...

Tilde is so happy to meet people. Really happy. When I took her out to walk in a small and not too busy shopping street, her excitement we...

This photo was taken 4 years ago. Viva hadn't joined the family yet, and Kenzo was still an adolescent. On it are our youngest grand...

Living together with a Hovawart like Kenzo does wonders for your social life. At least, when you spent a lot of time outdoors. Receiving gue...

Until recently, a picture like this made my heart skip a beat: The toy falls in the wrong place, exactly in the middle of both Kenzo an...

Trash Talking? Moi? We ended up scouting the new area we stranded in, Kenzo and me. The car had to get fixed. Again . Thankfully Kenzo w...

May I jump up on you? Please? This is a post inspired by - and you might like to read that instead - "You Cannot Punish Love" ...

Bella - first of the "grown up" Hovies up for adoption Earlier than expected the first dogs from the former puppy mill alread...

While I work with Viva's "main" issues, like fear of dogs and sudden sounds, I don't give other, smaller issues, a lot of ...

Soon after our Norway trip we unexpectedly found ourselves traveling to Holland and Germany again. On such short notice we could only r...

In the previous installment about Hovawarts and Temperament I mentioned how responsible Hovawart breeders have the temperament of their pup...