Kenzo the Hovawart

We had a great time during the last three weeks on the island of Sealand. It did the girls a lot of good to experience a change of surrou...

"Woof, woof!" Both Tilde and Zerline were barking at the little Shih Tzu who passed by the fence.

As soon as Zerline noticed the group of people she was away, loudly barking at the approaching "threat". Tilde was right behind...

Animals have emotions. I know, I am preaching to the choir. We - dog people - already know this. Still, I want to highly recommend this ...

The feeling someone is looking at me suddenly comes up. I quickly look at the window, but no creepy person there, neither is there a ghos...

"Woof!" I looked in my rear view mirror. We were driving on the highway and the car behind us was so close it could almost tou...

I wasn't wrong with my prophecy. " Dit is een goed stel hoor, " excuse my Dutch.

It's Tilde's 6th birthday today. Maybe. She was born somewhere around February 17, 2013. That much we do know.

A dog and his person appeared on the horizon. We don't meet many people this time of the year. Most avoid the wind-swept West-coast d...

More than a decade ago, when I visited Kenzo's breeder for my first Hovawart puppy, Kenzo quickly lost his interest in me during our ...

No, I am not standing in front of a mirror and giving myself a pep talk. It has been a while since my last post and I thought about what ...

I hesitated for a moment. It was 7am. "No, I am not going to do it," I whispered to myself. Before there were dogs in my life, ...

There she was again, our daily visitor. The doe looked at me through the window. She didn't seem afraid at all. She was only 15 feet ...

"They are crazy," my friend said. I could hear the astonishment in her voice.

"You are getting better and better at guarding our realm, Zerline," I said, in an attempt to sound motivational.

With the last guests leaving in the coming weekend, a two and a half month streak of welcoming visitors is coming to an end. Apart from t...

What never should happen has happened.

"When are my next visitors arriving?"

Atie and me had a lot to talk about during her visit. We also made many trips down memory lane back to the puppy days, and I realized I n...

"It's really her, Zerline."