Our Berner Family Blog

Luce like to play “chase the stick”. We have not graduated to “fetch the stick” yet, but then again, we probably never will. Afterall, he is a Berner, not a retriever. After I throw the stick, Luce like to chase after it but when he gets to it, he chews on one end until I get there:

After about 15 minutes he gets tired and we make the long 5 minute walk back home. Since the field can be muddy in places, Luce gets his feet washed off before heading in the house. Here he is waiting for the hose:

While he does not like to have his feet rinsed with the hose, he really likes drinking from it so he gets the good with the not so good.

Luce like to cruise around town with the wind blowin’ through his hair. He keeps on paw on the armrest or the ledge in case he needs to brace himself.

Here is my typical view in the rearview mirror:

Something caught his attention here since he is usually looking mostly forward.

Luce has taken a liking to the same toy rooster that our sweet Coco liked. This one is a little bigger than Coco’s but otherwise exactly the same. He has not been allowed to have the soft toys most of the time as he wanted to just bite off pieces and swallow them. Today, he played nice for quite a while and didn’t try to destroy it. He did want to play tug of war with it with me but I had to extinguish that quickly since he would have pulled it apart.

Luce still likes to lay like a “little  puppy”. He seems to be most comfortable in this position and when he does it on the tile floor, you can hear it because his claws scrape the floor as he flips his hind feet over.

Please keep good thoughts for, and send positive energy to, Luce’s brother Max who is feeling under the weather right now. Luce is very much looking forward to seeing him this summer in Lake Tahoe.

Luce got to play with his friend Hiro today. They must have been taken after Luce’s 10 minute active period. After that, he like to lay down. Hiro didn’t quite get the message so they still played.

Happy First Birthday Everyone!!! Well it’s Luce’s very first birthday along with his 4 brothers. We only are able to keep in contact with one of Luce’s littermates, Max. He is doing very well and we will hopefully get to see him again this summer. It is unfortunate that we don’t know how the others are doing, but hopefully they are doing well. Luce is “blowing his coat” right now so the house has to be vaccumed all the time. Stacey thinks his coat “è brutto” right now but I think he is “molto bello”. Here are a few pictures as Luce looked from his left to his right out front in the driveway so you can decide for yourself.

Arrivederci!

Luce has re-discovered Stacey’s side of the sofa in the TV room. He used to go there when he was a little pup but would never stay long. We think that he got too hot back then. Not sure what has changed but he is not getting too hot now. Well, if he is, he isn’t showing it.

Luce went to the groomer and as you can see from the picture, when he is there, he is all business.

Luce got to go to Doggie Day Care and seemed to have a very good time. Most everyone was in the “Big Dog” category and seemed to like Luce.

He is not used to that kind of activity so he pretty much crashed when he got home

Stacey took Luce to see his “friend” Ranger but Luce was not all that interested that day.