Lives:    Te Horo, Otaki (Lower North Island)

Human Family:    Mum, Dad and their 3 children - Grace 8, Shannon 8 and Madeline 6

Animal Family:    Bailey (3 year old female Mastiff), Delphi (9 month female Mastiff), a cat and 4 birds.

Personality:

Likes:    Food, food and preferably more food!!  Hanging my head out of the ute window is pretty cool too.  I also like to go swimming at the river and rollicking around on the farm.  I love to spend time with my family and it is especially good cause I get lots of scratches and I just love being the centre of attention.  I like baby animals too, they are kind of fun to have around.  We once had a pet lamb and that was sooooo exciting, when I first saw it I shook all over.  having two younger pups in the house is fun too by they sure can tire me out, it's tough being the biggest ya know.

Dislikes:    Baths!!  They really are enough to get a dog down, I spend all my time getting just the way I want and what do they do, get me all wet and put this weird smelly stuff all over me - what's a dog to do!  Being left at home isn't my favourite either, nobody at home to pat me and tell me how gorgeous I am, it really isn't on at all.  The other things I don't care much for are trucks and trains.  That really isn't fun when you're happily going along with the wind whistling through your fur merrily going along in the ute minding your own business and a truck speeds by in the opposite direction, it's enough to ruin anyone's day!!  Just as well I'm a tolerant chap!!  I'm just waiting for the day when a truck is traveling behind us in the ute, I am gonna try and muster the biggest slobber I can so it fly's back and lands on their windscreen - hehehe that'll teach them for trying to spoil my fun.

What do I try to get away with when nobody is looking: Who me, do that? Surely not!  Ok I'll tell you but you have to promise not to tell anyone, it's our little secret.  Sometimes I can get away with sneaking a bit of food, after all it's hard to keep in this good a shape you know.  Really I think of it as doing my bit to help clean up, someone had obviously left it out by mistake!!!

Amusing Anecdotes:  There was this one time when my old friend Tiff (also a magnificent mastiff like myself) and I broke into the house - she was really good at that ya know.  We knew how to have fun! Everyone else was out so we could collect all the best toys and take them outside to play with in the mud.  (Barbie told me that she wanted a nice mud pack!!)  I had this book of my Mum's once and I was really really careful with it as I knew mum had borrowed it from a friend, I didn't rip it or bend it or anything.  How was I to know that mum would be upset that Barbie wanted to read the book whilst indulging in the mud bath....