- Hugo’s mate, 02 May 2012
- Hugo at work, 02 May 2012
- Town Meets Country Photo Gallery, 09 Mar 2012
- Town meets Country, 09 Mar 2012
- Socialization, 06 Mar 2012
- What’s Important, 22 Feb 2012
- Settling In, 10 Feb 2012
- Bountys new baby, 03 Feb 2012
Hugo is a black lab retriever cross, born 22 november 2011. His new owner Margaret works at bounty and in her blogs will add a different spin to raising a special type of 'newborn'.
Hugo at work
It’s been a while since I last posted a blog so I thought I better pull my finger out and give you an update on Hugo! One day he was a cute little puppy and now he’s growing at a great rate of knots into a very large dog! At five months old I’m looking …
Town meets Country
Two of my brothers run a sheep, beef and cropping farm in Southland and Hugo, the city dog, paid his first visit this week. Dressed in his brand new black collar, he lept out of the car to be greeted by his farming cousins Dan ( a black and white Heading dog) and Jay (a …
Socialization
When you have a newborn baby, everyone wants to meet him. No different with a new pup. Which is good for Hugo as socialization is important in those first few months plus, I do feel pretty proud showing him off. One of our first visits was to see Poppy (fully grown Golden Lab) and Millie (black …
What’s Important
Just putting Hugo to the side for one second, there’s something I want to say today. It’s not until you see how big your friends kids have grown that you realise how long ago it was you saw your friend. And if you have kids, your friends say the same to you too don’t they. …
Settling In
Like any newborn you bring home, there’s a bit of ‘settling in’ to get used to. The car ride home is all exciting, the cat isn’t as shocked as you thought she’d be and the flatmate thinks he’s the cutest pup out. Everything’s dandy. Until…night fall… As I woke at 2am to barking on the …
Bountys new baby
You could almost describe it as a pregnant thought (but think gestation period of an elephant) that finally gave birth to reality this week. I’ve wanted a dog for ages and finally got round to actually getting one last sunday. My decision came about after randomly surfing trade me (as you do) and stumbling across …
