If you've been to Buzz's site prior to 28 October 2016, it looks different - don't worry! We just updated it to cover his entire life span, instead of stopping at dog school.
This site is just a boatload of photographs we took of our Vizsla, Buzz, over the fourteen years of his life. Its intended audience is Buzz's family. So, if you're not a family member, be warned: there's not too much here but a zillion pictures of our dog. And it's not just because he was ours; it's because he was beautiful, at rest and in motion.
So now that you know that you'll be flooded with photos, here's some guidance: The Air Time and Headshots pages are essentially albums of our favorite pictures of Buzz - no story at all, just a bunch of Buzz-pics in roughly chronological order, from age 3 weeks to 14 years. The rest of the pages are either short stories of adventures, or at least have some unifying theme. Have fun.
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Headshots Not really headshots, but photos that show Buzz in various really impressive poses. |
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Air Time Buzz spent a lot of his life with four feet off the ground, one way or another, and we caught some of those moments with our camera. |
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Costumes Buzz dressed up for various occasions and we caught him in the act. |
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Buddies Buzz had lots of friends: human, canine, equine, etc. |
Pictures of Buzz's Litter Buzz's breeder, Marion Sears, invited potential Vizsla owners to her place when Buzz's litter turned three weeks old, so she could figure out good dog-people matches. It was great fun but could easily have resulted in a cuteness apocalypse. | |
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Coming Home Pictures from Buzz's first three days at our house. |
Settling In These are photos from the first three months with us. | |
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Robinson Ranch Buzz grew up at Robinson Ranch. |
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Dog School A quick look at Buzz's education with Jan Brennan, a vet and Search and Rescue dog trainer who definitely gave him a liberal arts sort of education. |
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Fort Ord We spent a lot of time and miles at Fort Ord, one of Buzz's favorite places. |
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Buzz Helping Buzz tried to stay involved in all our activities, no matter how boring. |
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Hyampom A friend of ours has property in the Nor Cal town of Hyampom and Buzz really enjoyed visiting, particularly the part about swimming in the river. |
Lam Clinic We took Buzz to a to work on our conformation-handling skills. Fortunately, we never had to use the skills. It was pretty humbling. | |
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Camping with Lori Lori introduced me to the notion of owning a dog - she's my heroine! She and Buzz and I took a short camping trip. |
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Paso Robles We have a couple of friends who have large places down in Paso Robles and Buzz loved going down to visit. |
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Reno Trip We took a trip to Reno and got sidetracked. |
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Texas trips These are photos from our multiple trips to see Wayne's family East Texas. And mostly they are of the travel, not the visiting. |
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Walking on Water. We always said Buzz could do no wrong, but we didn't know he could walk on water. |
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Weed We intended to visit Weed, but we got distracted by a sidetrip again. |
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Winthrop Buzz went to Winthrop and met Shameless and Geraldo, his neighbor dogs. |
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HSA In the last year of his life, Buzz had surgery and chemotherapy for a blood-born cancer. The treatments were effective: he was back in action in days after the surgery and he lived joyously and actively for another year. |