For about a week Bebhinn (spoken Bevin) of Nutstown is now the new family member.

After the loss of Liath Cailín end of June, a new life was sorely needed in our family.

Life is the right word, she has all sorts of ideas of how to redecorate our Living room.

She has a very stable character, unafraid of new  things and not easily impressed if we

say NO to something she shouldn't do.

When she arrived she was 52 cm and had 19 kg, but this will change fast.

She has taken to demonstrate, when she thinks t's time for food. She starts this about an hour before, lying in front of the feeding stand. But as this is a hard job, she often goes to sleep at it

16 Weeks

Sleeping positions

Taking the Official Portrait ...

... is boring  

Bebhinn is like a wild bumble bee, always busy, 24 hrs a day, if she had her will.

From the beginning she made one of the small carpets I had laid out for protection her own. Slowly but surely she started to tear it to bits. As she was also interested in our antique Oriental carpet, I left the small one to her to avoid damage to the good one. (there are some fringes missing and a hole in the good carpet anyway now !)

Her 2 favourite toys are a rubber cabbage head making very loud noises and a big knitted knee stocking, filled with paper kitchen tissues and knotted at the end.

All the newly bought bed sheets over the her mattresses are already torn to bits and also 2 hand towels, she caught somehow.

The positive side is, that she leaves our shoes alone, also the things on the coffee table as long as they are not edible.

At 4 months Bebhinn weighed 23 kg at a shoulder height of 62cm.

The destructive phase

20 weeks

A natural stack - 19.11.2006 - Autumn Walk

23.11.06 -  Bebhinn is nearly 20 weeks, now 26kg/63cm.

She now knows some rules and many times already follows them. Unfortunately the waking ceremony is still licking either face or feet of either my husband or me. If there is no immediate reaction, she is up on the bed and tramples all over us, until someone gets up.

On the other hand she is very good, when she is off lead on our walks, she comes when called, sits and gets a goodie of course. She understands already a lot, knows what it means, when I say "Pipi" or "Wait" or "By foot, although sometimes ignores it, but  "Goodie" of course is always understood.

Christmas Decoration was minimal this year! A Christmas Tree would have been defying luck!

Look her expression, she's up to more mischief

She is almost 6 months now, 70cm at shoulder

January 2007

An evening play with Berry, a Great Dane with a shoulder height of 1.04m!

Bebhinn is 6 months old now and 73cm at the shoulder

Sunday Morning Walk after Storm Kyrill

Caught in the Act!

The first snow this winter came only mid-January and lasted from Wednesday to Sunday......

....Monday it looked like this

Shoona

belongs to a friend and is still a teenager. Finally Bebhinn found her master

5.02.2007

16.02.07

Bebhinn seems zu have an infection in the urinary tract, demonstrated by sudden "sins" in the house and a greenish discharge. So we went to her dear friend the vet, she has always some goodies in her pocket.

She has to take AB for 10 days, no problem for her, as she eats about anything

On the scale she had 41 kg,  76cm at the shoulder.

March 2007

April 2007

May 2007

Bebhinn is now 10 months old, and weighs 43 kg, 80cm shoulder height.

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