Category: Videos
April 27, 2002: Shayna, at 15 weeks, turns into a “gremlin” before your eyes!
I adopted Shayna on April 7, 2002, as a 12 week old pup. You can hear in my voice that my healing has begun, as has my love for Shayna, and her love for me. This was one of the most hilarious early discoveries… starting with her enjoying her baby rattle… then transforming from […]
Shayna retreiving “One ball, two balls”
2011: A video showing how well Shayna has learned to retrieve one tennis ball or two, depending on the command.
Jan. 17, 2011: How to make Shayna’s dinner
On January 20, 2011, I was scheduled to undergo my first-ever surgery (outpatient). Were I a loner, it would be a pretty straightforward process: get to the hospital, pray for the best, come home, and heal. But as Shayna’s “dad” and best friend, my life is blissfully more complicated. What happens if something goes […]
January 17, 2011: A walk in the woods with Shayna and Gloria
The first part of this story is here — in which I talk about my dear friend, and angel, Gloria, and a very hard time she was having in January 2011. As an continuation of my video postcard to Gloria, I thought, what could be more fun that taking her along for a “walk” […]
December 28, 2009: Shayna versus the blizzard
Charlottesville, VA is at the northern tip of the Mid-Atlantic South. Since moving here in late 2001 (to rebuild my life, and look for my first dog – as discussed in my book), I’ve observed that we have very mild winters; they can be cold, but don’t have a lot of snowfall. All that […]
April 12, 2009: Our seventh anniversary
I cannot believe it’s been seven years since I met and adopted Shayna, as a little 14 pound bundle of black fur. How fearful yet optimistic I was, being that I was going to be responsible for another living creature. Yet look how it all turned out, after those months of hunting for the […]
May 31, 2008: Shayna’s first swim of the year
This is one of the real high points of Shayna’s life. The whole drive up to the Chris Greene Lake Park, Shayna knows where we’re going – no matter how long it’s been since we’ve been there (in this case, months). She whimpers and whinnies the whole way, with her head on one of […]
Pics: Shayna doing her “frisbee skiing”
This was one of the first indications I had of how inventive Shayna really is. She’d never been particularly interested in catching a frisbee. but was fascinated by its shape. Then one day when she was about six months old, she decided a frisbee could be used as a “skiing” device: she turned it […]
January 7, 2008: Shayna gets a new toy for her birthday
(This is the second video we shot today; see the first one here) It is hard to believe that it’ was six years ago today that Shayna was brought into this world. I thank my lucky stars for her, every single day. So today, we spent the afternoon in a park… in the middle of […]
September 23, 2003: First video of Shayna swimming – ever
As described here, Shayna had severe water-phobia for the first 18 months of her life. It took a lot of patience (on both our parts) and courage (on her part alone) to overcome it. What you’re about to see is the first video ever captured of Shayna swimming, soon after she overcame her fear of […]
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