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13/10/2024

Gorgeous day over at the dog beach this morning. The tide wasn’t as far out as we expected, but Poppy still had a good time playing ball and zooming on the lawn.

23/09/2024

Is it Vampire Fang Season yet? 🧛🏽‍♀️

06/09/2024

26/06/2024

Poppy x Poppies 2024

I was trying to do something artsy but Poppy was not in the mood for looking at the camera so this is the best we’re gonna get 😅

21/06/2024

The last light of the longest day ☀️

16/05/2024

Gotta love patio season ☀️

It’s Poppy’s SEVENTH gotcha day today! Unfortunately the weather today isn’t as nice as it was on the day I took this photo, but she’ll be getting a nice chew to celebrate!

I can’t believe it’s been 7 years already. She’s brought so much joy and fun into our lives that the time just few by!

08/03/2023

It snowed a couple weeks ago and I’m only just now getting around to posting the photos. I like the pics we got though so who cares?

Poppy’s out here looking like she just stepped into Narnia. Pretty safe to say she wouldn’t sell us out for Turkish Delight. A piece of steak on the other hand…

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Image description: a gold and white village dog in a blue coat stands on a snowy trail in the forest.
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23/02/2023

We had the day off on Monday so we went on a little hike! It’s been a while since we’ve been out in the woods and I missed it. Poppy was great off-leash as well! It brings me a ton of joy to see all of the training we’ve done pay off and I’m really proud of the dog she is today 🥰
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Image description: a gold and white village dog in a purple and gray jacket and teal harness stands on a wet rocky trail. There is lush green plant life flanking her on both sides.

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10/01/2023

Poppy had a surgery to remove a lump on her leg last week, and got four stitches. It turned out to be a benign follicular cyst, (yay!) but she hasn’t been allowed to have beach time while the she heals.

So here she is at the beach the day before her surgery. I can’t wait to bring her back after her stitches are out!
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Image description: a gold and white village dog in a teal harness stands on the sand looking up at the camera.

10/01/2023

Do you ever wonder why Garfield hates Mondays so much? He’s a cat. He doesn’t have a job. My theory is it’s because he misses Jon when he goes to work 🥺

Anyway here’s Poppy embodying that Monday mood. I wish I were snuggling in bed with you too, kid.
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Image description: a gold and white dog sitting on a light blue couch, wrapped in a pink blanket with orange dogs on it. She looks at the camera with a slightly grumpy expression.
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07/01/2023

Little dog, big world 🌲

I need to pull a zillion photos off my camera and edit them, so for now, here’s a photo from our trip to Vancouver Island over the summer. There’s nothing like an afternoon spent under the trees.🌲
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02/01/2023

I can’t believe 2022 is over! It feels like a lot of the fun things we did this year happened SO long ago. I think this year one of my New Year’s resolution is definitely to take some more time to enjoy the amazing place we live!

What are your New Year’s resolutions for 2023?

31/12/2022

A few days before Christmas it snowed a TON. It was mostly gone by Christmas Day, but I’m glad we got out to play in it a little bit before then.

Poppy isn’t a huge fan of the cold. But she does think snow is fun (especially in her warmest jacket, thanks !) She was quite amused when she discovered there was sand under the snow on the beach here (the zoomies abounded) 😂⁣

26/12/2022

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄

We haven’t been around much on Instagram lately but I couldn’t let the holidays pass without popping in to wish you all a wonderful end to the year.

What did your pups get for Christmas? Don’t tell Poppy, but she got a bully stick, and an old ball that has been in a drawer for the last 6 months 😅 What did your dogs get?

17/11/2022

I don’t know how this can possibly be comfortable but she seems pretty happy with this arrangement ☺️
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14/11/2022

Another cold, windy, rainy walk from last weekend. I swear, Poppy is the best sport for being up to going out when the weather is less than ideal. Of course the sun came out 10 minutes after we decided to be done, but we had a nice rainbow to look at on the drive home. (Although now that I think about it, I’m not very sure how well dogs can even perceive rainbows 🤔)

We saw some cool birds when we were out, some hawks and (I think) a golden eagle! You’ll just have to take my word for it though because as good as my phone camera is, I couldn’t get great video of the birds.

Thanks for the fun trail!
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13/11/2022

Work’s been a bit busy so I haven’t had the same amount of downtime to draft Instagram posts 😅 We’re still out here going on hikes rain or shine! (Mostly rain. It is Vancouver after all)

Here’s a few pics from one of our hikes! It was a ton of fun even though it was super wet out. The hike was gorgeous and peaceful. Poppy didn’t love how wet it was, but I think we all still had a good time despite that.
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Image 1 description: A wet gold and white dog with pointy ears in a blue and white raincoat stands on a log in a forest

Image 2 description: a woman in a yellow raincoat and a gold and white dog standing in front of her on a log pose on a beach in front of a view of a small island.

Image 3 description: a green “finisher badge” for the Belcarra leg of the dogs and trails challenge.
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