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Bella

Awwwwwww.

Puppies! too cute

Seven weeks!

WAY cool!! 8)

HJ

What type of dog is that?

Beautiful!! Happy trails, and happy tails!

Fart Baron wrote: ↑What type of dog is that?

machine de merde

Nice to see you have a new four legged hiking partner Mitch, hope to see you both on the trail together

Fart Baron wrote: ↑What type of dog is that?

German Shepherd.

I pick her up this weekend. The following weekend she will accompany me and the SOY kids along the Misha Mokwa trail in the Santa Monica Mountains. Ingrid or I will have to straggle along behind with the puppy, since she won't yet be up for such a long hike. We'll rig a sling for carrying her when necessary.

pretty cool!!!

HJ

She looks like she has a white heart marking on her chest. So cute!!

Bella turned 13 years old last week.

She's very slow these days, but she still enthusiastically chases the tennis ball every day. Apparently her eyesight is going as she barks at people she sees outside the office because, I believe, she doesn't recognize them. She very rarely barked at anything until this year.

She's been a mountain dog her entire life. We took her on her first overnight, to Kelly's Camp, when she was three months old. She never made it to the top of Mt Baldy or San Gorgonio, but she's twice been to the top of Mt Rose, a mountain near here the same height as Baldy, the last time in 2017:



Unfortunately she tore a ligament in deep snow in early 2018, and that really slowed her down; shortly after she began to develop arthritis.

She continued to hike with us, but for shorter and shorter distances. These days she can barely walk a mile. But aside from that, and the barking, she's still going strong:



She loves the snow.

Good doggyyyyyy! Whos such a good doggy? awwwwwww

May she live forever.

My dog Gordon says hi...

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