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Chuck Tribolet's Newfoundland Dog pictures

Newfoundland ("new-fun-LAND") Dogs are gentle giants. They weigh 100 to 150 pounds. Most are all black (maybe with a little white), about 10% are white with big black spots (called a Landseer, after an English painter of the last century), about 5% are brown, and about 1% are gray. They LOVE to swim, and have webbed feet to prove it. They have a strong rescue instinct, and were carried on sailing ships to rescue sailors who fell overboard. They also love to pull dog carts.
 
Picture Zora, my first newf Britannia's Zora, my first Newf.
Picture of Whitney as a puppy Whitney, at 3 months old. Whitney belongs to a friend of mine, and is a dog show champion now, and mother to several up and coming champions.
Beau pulling Charmaine's wheelchair Abby, Charmaine Stansfield, and Fairsea's Beaucoup de Chien (Beau). Beau and Abby are my current Newfs.

Abby doesn't have a fancy name because she's a rescue -- I adopted her at about age five, and I don't really know her background. She's definitely a velcro dog -- she stays stuck to my side wherever I go.

"Beaucoup de Chien" is pidgin French for "a whole lot of dog", and he is. Beau thinks carting, whether pulling my late wife's wheelchair, or a real dog cart, is a lot of fun. He gets real excited whenever I get out his harness. The Newfoundland Club of Northern California gives dog cart rides at street fairs to raise money, and Beau just pulls and pulls and pulls.

Details on how to build the apparatus for a properly trained carting dog to pull a wheel chair are available here.

The Newf-L mailing list has a web page with lots more information about this wonderful breed.


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Last updated: 09:15 AM, Thursday, May 13, 2004

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