The Big Dog Bus

08/04/2025

Happy 11th Birthday to Bruna!! Congratulations, you are officially the eldest Berner in my whole pack! Now…if only ALL Berner’s could make it to 11years!

07/09/2025

03/13/2025

More sad news I’m afraid…Benny 2.0 (named because I already had a Benny in the group) passed away last night. He had moved back to Georgia but he left a permanent imprint on our hearts. This boy loooooved the beach. I think it was his happy place. He radiated joy in whatever he did and it would be hard not to be happy when he was around. So many of the original gang has left us: OG Benny, Biggie, Wooster, Crosby, Biden, Lily, Joy, Nana…sigh. I wish they could live forever. Run free Benny! There are some old friends waiting for you at the 🌈! 😭

01/08/2025

Sadly, while I was away on vacation one of my gang went off to the Rainbow Bridge. Miss Joy had been battling cancer for some time but I was hoping I’d get a little more time with her. Joy was one of my favorite ladies because she was just so easy-going and sweet as can be. I first met Joy when she was just a tiny pup and used to like to hide from me in the big bushes at Funston. I didn’t see her for a bit and then one day I took my group to McLaren park because Funston was closed for some reason. And out of NOWHERE this giant Berner jumped up on me from behind and I was like “do we know each other?!” 😂😂 To my surprise it was Joy all grown up and she recognized me before I recognized her! One of my favorite things was seeing Joy run down the sand to get to the beach-she loved it down there so I tried to take her as much as possible. I am going to miss you, Joy. You always brightened my day and made me laugh. I hope you are with some old friends like Nana and Biden and having a grand old time swapping stories. I’m pretty sure that if there’s any afterlife at all I am headed to the dog version so I think we’ll see each other again sweet girl!! ❤️❤️🌈

12/17/2024

I’m back from vacation! And if you want to know what would make me leave my furry friends this long well, here they are! Spent a week swimming with orcas and humpbacks in the North Pole. It was amazing and magical and very very cold. Went on to Iceland for a week of R&R and Icelandic horses but I think I’m ready to see my Berners again!!

11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving!! I’m so thankful I get to hang out with these goofs every day! They are the best and honestly they make me laugh so much. I can’t believe my luck sometimes.

10/05/2024

Berner friends! Tomorrow is the annual Bernese Mtn Dog day at Farmer John’s pumpkin farm in Half Moon Bay! I will be there with one Berner and one Newfie who believes he’s a Berner (I mean, he was raised by Berners, plays only with his Berner friends and growls when he sees himself in a mirror 🤷🏻‍♀️) Anyway, we usually head out pretty early to avoid traffic so come see us around 10:30 or so!

09/11/2024

Fort Funston afternoon group today-it reminds me of a classical painting 😂

05/03/2024

I’m woefully behind in uploading pics here and I will get back to it, I swear. But first I have another sad obituary. My big friend Biden has passed away. Man, I loved this boy so much. I met him (and his brother Bear) when they were just babies. Biden had the biggest fro and he was so chill. His favorite thing to do was to sit on his friends. Seriously, they’d all be playing and he would back up like a dump truck and plop his butt down on whoever was on the grass. (The last few photos are of him enjoying his friends as cushions). And he was so big that the dog under him would be gasping for air 😂 When he got older he would insist that he was my favorite-wouldn’t let me pet anyone else. And he would give the BEST hugs. When Big Benny moved away Biden was ecstatic to take over the “best” seat in the van (back left corner) and when Benny moved back again there was a little power battle between the two of them “I had it first” “but you left and now it’s mine!” And with Biden’s penchant for sitting on his friends well, suffice to say Benny decided to not put up any more fight and Biden was the victor. Biden was the sweetest loving furry bear and I am going to miss him something awful. He was just 7 years old. Go hug your bears tonight!! Somewhere Biden is gazing out at the ocean and his old friends are with him (and I hope they let him sit on them again for old time’s sake). Love you Biden!! ❤️❤️🌈

12/25/2023

Post-Christmas breakfast at the Berner Flophouse-time for a nap! Merry Christmas everyone! (Baloo is just out of frame-he had a bone he didn’t want to give up😂)