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First you have to understand that for us, our newfie (Newfoundland water rescue dog) is more like a child with whom we carry on full conversations going both ways. Yeah we're nuts, I know. We got Missy (Miss America) in March of 2002, after our first newfie passed away in Febuary. Missy was the monster alpha of the litter. Her grandparents are all huge in excess of 150 pounds. We spoil her rotten.

We were giving her too many treats and she got up to 138 which we didn't think was too bad and then she tore her anterior cruchet ligament (the football injury). She had surgery (nearly $3000 ~gulp~) and rehab and accupuncture treatments. So the Doc said to avoid another knee blowout we had to put her on a diet and since then she's lost almost 32 pounds! Wish I could. Now she's fully recovered and regaining her childhood, running, jumping and playing with the senior citizen cats (usually covering them in huge licks). We sometimes refer to her as "wild eyed love."

Next March, we hope to pick up her sister from the same breeder in San Antonio, Texas. She, we will name: Miss Liberty or Libby for short.