Category Archives: Corona

This Dogo Argentino is Looking for a New Home

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No, Corona is not looking for a new family but is sniffing out a new home. We’re in the city where she spends most of her days indoors and we all know how much Dogo Argentino’s love to run and explore.

We want to provide Corona the fenced in yard she so deserves and a house where she can have her own room to play in.

Corona wants a new home

Corona wants a new home

While we take this dog out as much as we can, with the new addition to our family she doesn’t get out as often as she’d like. You can help us make her dream of a fenced in yard to run in a reality.

Pepsi is hosting a Refresh Everything contest which gives us the opportunity to win $100 000 (you can enter a submission after August 31st, 2010) so we can build a house with straw bales. For more information on this just visit http://pep.si/bAarRz or http://sarahbutland.com/blog/2010/07/15/a-house-of-straw/.

Make sure you let us know that you’ve submitted an idea when it opens again and we’ll support you all the way.

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Sarah Butland
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Vote For My “Brother”

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William, my new brother, was entered into a contest to be on the cover of a magazine!! He was only two months old when this picture was taken of him already learning to read! I’m so very proud of him.

Sending You Sammy Loved by All

Sending You Sammy Loved by All

In the previous post you saw Russ and me preparing to play with him; although he’s still too little to really play he’s growing bigger every day.

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have a magazine with him on it? I’m so jealous.

Always your dogo argentino,

Corona

Obstacle Course Attempt #1

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From her first attempt to one of her last, Corona, our Dogo Argentino, sure made us laugh on a sunny afternoon at the cottage.

Setting up, for the first time, her complete obstacle course took more time than realizing she just didn’t have the energy to put her all into it. Corona was walked through the weave poles ok, was more than happy to sit at the pause box, quickly trotted through the open tunnel and ecstatic to sit again at the finish line. Only she couldn’t quite bring herself to make it past the first obstacle with gusto.

Catching her many attempts on still and video camera this Dogo Argentino will always be remembered for her jumping ability. Giving her some credit, she did swim tons already that morning and the day before so she was pretty tired. And, as can be our luck, she was vibrant the next day after we took the course down.

Lesson Learned?
Maybe next time we’ll start with the course and reward her with a swim!

She Catches It and I Catch Her!

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After many attempts at getting the ball, this Dogo Argentino proved to have less stamina then I and gave up before I did. Corona loved catching the ball and playing on the beach right up until she almost collapsed from exhaustion.

We had to go back the next day, but didn’t mind, to get her to play again and renew her zest for the ball to get the second picture. The one that impresses everyone who sees it.

With all this Dogo Argentino’s power and stamina I cannot imagine what an intruder would ever think when entering our house. We can’t wait to get back out to the ocean to practice Corona’s ball catching, Paul’s leash handling and my photo-taking.

Corona Just Loves Peanut Butter!

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She just loves when we finish our jar of Kraft.

She just loves when we finish our jar of Kraft.

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Although Corona’s preference for Peanut Butter is simply to have it, at our household we can only have Kraft and when we finish a jar of it she’s delighted to lick the jar clean. We can only buy the big jars as we know the little ones just won’t offer our Dogo Argentino the adventure of sticking her entire muzzle to the bottom.

With even the ever lasting smell of the snack in the jar it’s difficult for us to pry the empty, licked out jar from Corona’s nose. She even has her own jar for when she gets the delicious peanut butter in a kong but it’s funnier (and more tasty) to finish ours and pass it along.