Dog Days of Surfing

Having been a photo model for the Orvis Dog competition, I am no stranger to the celebrity lifestyle. Maybe it's time to combine my good looks with my athletic prowess and love of water....

http://surfcitysurfdog.com/

Hang Ten Human Fans!

March Madness - Game Over!

So a lot of people have asked what the final results were for my March Madness picks..... well there were many upsets in the regional finals so my teams didn't make it into the national finals. That all said, I ranked 43rd out of 59, which means that 16 people that mummy works with know less about basketball than a dog!!!

Now THAT'S Madness!!

VOTE FOR MILO!!!!

Vote for me and help raise critical funds for the Canine Cancer Campaign!

 

https://coverdog.orviscontests.com/contest.html?page=viewInd&paymentProcessed=1&id=31149&contestId=3

Daddy has entered me into the Orvis Cover Dog Photo Contest and both he and I want to WIN!! We also want to raise lots of MONEY to help Orvis and the Morris Animal Foundation cure canine cancer.

When you donate and vote for ME, you'll help fund important canine cancer research. Every donation you make goes directly to helping dogs - and gives the dog you choose (ME - MILO!!) one more vote in the contest!

Be sure to apply all your votes to one dog photo. You got it - MILO! Your donations will go right to the the Canine Cancer Campaign - so each vote means one more dollar for their cause!

The last day to vote is March 31st!!!!

So please...donate, help me be a winner and save dogs' lives!

Chocolate Dunk! a.k.a. Milo's March Madness!

It's March Madness time! Apparently this is all about a huge competition amongst American college basketball teams and I think it's aptly named because everyone is going crazy about it. Mummy decided to take part in an office competition to guess the winning teams but as she knows absolutely nothing about basketball, she let me help pick the winners. After all, white girls can't jump but I'm chocolate and I can jump very high! 

First of all we had to pick a name for our team and Chocolate Dunk! was born. For those of you who know as little about basketball as mummy, it's a play on the great player Daryl Dawkins, a.k.a. Chocolate Thunder, so named for his powerful dunks... and on the fact that I am a chocolate Lab. For the basketball illiterate amongst you, in 1979 Chocolate Thunder threw down such a massive dunk that the backboard shattered into tiny shards. Three weeks later he did it again. A few days after that the NBA ruled that breaking a backboard was an offense that would result in a fine and suspension.

Next I had to pick the winning teams in 64 games. Mummy held out the two teams for each game and I sniffed winner out. It took a long time as there were so many games. I got a bit bored and kept wandering off to fetch a toy or roll about on the floor. Finally mummy got the message that positive reinforcement was required. Treats always work!

So you are probably wondering how a little brown dog is stacking up against the human competition....well the first two rounds have finished and I correctly picked 31 out of 48 games! I am 29th out of 59!!!

The regional semi-finals are March 24th and 25th.... So who do I have tipped to win March Madness 2011? Kansas Jayhawks to beat Ohio Buckeyes!

Check me out practicing hoops at the marshes - this is special move that allows me to dunk tennis balls!

Milo Gets Crabs

Daddy took me to Stinson Beach today. It was a beautiful sunny day and I was so happy that I smiled and smiled.

Daddy threw a tennis ball for me and I practiced my "fetch" skills so that he could throw it again and again. 

One time, it landed in a pool of seawater. When I went to fetch it, it had turned into a weird creature called a 'crab'. 

Daddy laughed a lot as I pawed at the crab, covering it in sand and hoping it would give me back my tennis ball. 

I don't know what daddy thought was so funny. You can't throw a crab and play fetch! I gave him a jolly good telling off!

Hello 2011!

Well, I must have been a really good boy this year because not only did I get lots of Christmas presents but I also got to join mummy and daddy on a post-Christmas trip to the wine country. We stayed at a bed & breakfast in Healdsburg, Sonoma and I had my own special place to sleep in front of the pot-belly fireplace. I even had my favourite toys with me!

 

 

Then the best thing of all was that I got to come to Cavallo Point for New Years Eve!! 

http://www.cavallopoint.com/index.html

Cavallo Point is very dog-friendly and they gave me my own food bowls, a big bag of treats and sausages and my very own bed. I should point out that it was not the bed I am sleeping on in this picture! Mummy and daddy had a lovely NYE dinner at the restaurant while I stayed in the hotel room. They watched fireworks and came home very late....this is me and daddy the next morning, catching some extra snooze time.

So another year passes behind us and what a year it was. Packed full of new adventures, places to explore and things to sniff. I wonder what the new year will bring? Whatever it brings, I will be writing about it...

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM MILO!!