Grandparents visit

My parents are here from Brazil and Nina is extremely excited about that. Mom is very much a dog person and had met her before. Dad is not so much and is new meat for her, so she follows him around a lot and it's pretty funny, but mostly she is sent out of the room he's in. Aww.
Every here and again he will pet her and give her attention, and then she is so happy!

Nina sit!

Fun days by the pond

We have been having a great time around the neighborhood now that it's not extremely hot anymore. We walk, Nina refreshes herself at the pond and then crash on the bench. :)

Nina's updates

Nina is back in the crate, but probably not her fault. One day I left her in the crate and was supposed to come back in 4 hours but had an accident with my phone falling into the cracks into the elevator shaft and that put me behind a good few hours! And she did some damage! Nothing too bad, just a lot of work picking up pieces of DVD covers and magazines ripped, etc. Now my parents are coming and after their visit I will resume into letting her off crate for a few hours.

Today she had her friend London come over and she was so funny! London is about 4 and super well behaved. She likes Nina but isn't as playful as her. So the scene below was recurrent in my place till they both went watching the cars in the balcony and nap!

Too funny!

Off the crate!

Today was the 3rd day in a row that I left Nina home alone off the crate. I came back and she was waking up and the condo was exactly how I left it. Go Nina!

Happy barkday!

On August 3rd, 2011, Nina turned 1.

She's been such a fun company to have around, makes me laugh everyday. During the birthday week we had been going to work at Magick Lantern (doggie friendly production house I am a client of) and on her actually birthday I took her out for puppy ice cream after work (Lick-a-lots). She loved it. We went for a walk, but none of the neighborhood dogs were out, I could see she was a little disappointed. So I knocked at my neighbor's door to see if London (adorable pit mix Nina loves) could come over and play for a little bit.

Birthday was a success.

Happy 1st birthday, Nina!

Last month updates part 2

I came back from my trip, picked Nina up at Bia's and although she had the best time with Bruce, she was ready to come home and very very happy to see me (she peed!).

A week later I had to leave to Seattle for work for 3 days and she stayed at Wag a Lot. She loved it and came home super tired when I arrived. I missed my girl!

Now I am finally home for a while and enjoying the time with her.

She has been coming to work with me when I work out of this dog friendly production house. It's awesome and everyone loves here there, although she is a little jumpy and crazy.

We also go a lot to the dog park. She gets filthy!

She is also getting more cuddly. Before she wouldnt let me hold her much or lay close to me, now she does!

Our evening walks are nice too.

She hasnt been great off leash. Crossed the driveway a few times. So I am being careful with that.

We also started a new round of training, but had the first class and the next two were canceled. Bummer.

The focus now if for her to learn not to jump!

She is awesome though and makes me laugh every day!