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...

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.

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 ...

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.

"Why do you look so pale?"

"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."

I remember the pictures from Atie, the breeder, in which you could see how Zerline was charming herself into the hearts of all the visito...