• I AM STILL HERE! It’s Friday so enjoy a Friday feature I call “Bird dogs?”

    After taking a little time to think things over, I have decided not to shut down the grizzlybearma.com operations. Hold your applause and cheers, I will be continuing to write puppy, cat and kid stories but may post less often than I did in the early stages of my blogging. A household with two aussiedoodles

  • An Important Question

    An important question: Have I completely gone over the edge if I am wearing socks covered with my black aussiedoodle faces of Koda and Summer? …is it also a little odd that the rest of the family received these socks and are wearing them?  

  • Puppies’ First Halloween

    Koda and Summer are experiencing their first Halloween. It is sure to be exciting with the doorbell ringing all evening long. While I will not be bringing them to the front door to greet the little trick-or-treaters, I will put them in their costumes and let them jump up on the puppy gate to watch.

  • Size Does Not Matter

    Size does not matter, but somehow I am fixated on the unanticipated large size of Koda and Summer. Maybe it is because there are two of them, or maybe it is because their tiny puppy stage flew by so quickly. Either way I keep thinking about it. Yesterday their Halloween costumes arrived from Amazon. It was

  • PuppyGate

    I barely remember the days not so long ago when I had long stretches of time in the day to do whatever I wanted. An afternoon nap, running errands all afternoon, or even just sitting upstairs at my computer as the hours passed. I do not have that luxury anymore. Six months ago that all

  • Hey Shark Tank, How About These Product Ideas?

    Some of the best products are thought up when people find solutions to common problems. I do not consider myself an inventor or an entrepreneur but I am a solution finder. Lately several things are driving me nuts: wet aussiedoodle beards, mud tracked into the house by the dogs, and accidentally getting dog doo on

  • Impromptu Poodle Party

    Impromptu poodle party on our way past the puppies’ pals’ pad. It’s true. It was a pod of part poodle puppies we purposely passed while on our poop walk. Pardon me if I politely part from this particular perpetuation of using the letter P while I describe the details of this part poodle pal imprompto

  • Beware of the Green-Eyed Monster Dog

    In the darkness of the windowless room, I can just make out the outline of the black figure and sharp white fangs. Suddenly the eery green tint fills the eyes. This spooky scene is not what I expected to experience this morning at our visit to the vet. It is fitting for an appointment in

  • They are HUGE! Huuuuge!

    These puppies do not even look like puppies anymore. I think they were the size of aussiedoodle puppies for maybe ten minutes and then BAM! They sprouted these long legs! If I sound like this has taken be by surprise, that is true. Somehow I thought we were getting two midsize Aussiedoodles. They are six

  • Brangelina, JLo, and Soda

    Koda! Summer! Soda Kummer Soder Koma KSo Sko Somera Koder Sumda Kosum Soma SomKod Komer Suma Smoka DaSuma Dammer KS SK Summer! Koda!