A little about the Dogs whose photos won the contest

Roxy is the sweetest girl!  A 10 year old golden cream retriever with a heart of gold.   She loves everyone, especially kids.  She loves long walks, salmon treats and snuggles.   She was sound asleep and must have been having the best dream because she broke into this huge smile!   

Saucy Nugget is a 4 1/2 year old Bassett Hound who was a special Christmas surprise for her puppy-mommy.   She’s all sass!   She’s deceptively fast and loves to go exploring.  She’s always up for a cuddle and a good movie!  In this picture she’s playing with one of her favorite toys “pizza man”!  

My son, Steve’s, dog Boo is Yorkie with a little bit of poodle. They had her as a puppy from her mother who passed away two years ago. Boo is 13 years old, loves to be comfortable and is quite spoiled. I think that she knows that she is very cute and it lets her get away with more than she should be able to.  Six months of the year, she is with Steve and his wife on their oceangoing catamaran. We all love her to pieces.

Mia is part Bernese mountain dog and part border collie.  She is sweet and gentle.  She was from a New Mexico reservation where she was named Tecumseh, after a warrior chief.  She was a last-chance rescue and we adopted her in 2015 when she was 2.  Mia was her new shelter name.  Since she was a rescue she is sometimes leery of new people, but if you have her trust she is just the greatest.