Just remembered to notice this pic of Clea — the newf in question — and Ward.

Ward’s 13, for a sense of scale. Clea’s rather a short Newfoundland, and smallish.

Clea does sometimes nap with a guinea pig, oddly enough, given the paw/peeg confusion. Or it naps amid her belly fur, and she watches over it holding her breath so as not to wake the sleeping peeg. “Gentle giant” is aptly put.

Ear rubbing causes Clea to topple shoulder first unless well-supported. She’s unlikely to bite anyone’s “gentle areas,” or anything else, with anything like force — though when she does chew a stick it simply shatters in one thoughtful chomp.

Drifts of black fur to all who noticed….

We have three Newfs at the moment (recently lost a giant old boy) and the youngest of that lot is our ninth.

Looks here like we’ve been playing the endless pawing game — a kind of interspecies claphand — and it’s not just for little kids. If you lie on the floor, you trigger a delighted black fur tsunami.

Need a pillow ?

Awwwwwww. And that’s from me AND the husband.

awwww. so sweet

Newfie swim coach,nanny, pillow and comforter. What a pooch!

Could anything be any sweeter? Love that paw around the neck! I’m melting into a puddle of mush as I write…

Let’s not ignore the perfect triangle constellation of freckles on the widdle boy neck. I’ll bet his mom is foond of snorgling that spot.

“Bites you in the gentle areas”???

Ouch…

I know another Newfie who leeeeeeans like crazy on people, making them fall over… but I’ve never seen a Newfie “biting people on the gentle areas”. (Thank God.)

Awwwwww! I have a newfie mix, but he’s too small to do that! Oh well…