National Love Your Pet Day with Leonbergers and Other Dogs

Today, Tuesday, February 20, 2024, is National Love Your Pet Day. So, I thought I would show some photos of our current dogs and dogs from the past, naturally including our late Leonberger Bronco. I think the photos I am displaying show some of our love for them.

Photo of a Leonberger puppy looking into the camera
Our Leonberger Bronco when he was a three-month-old puppy.
A yellow lab on the left and the dark brown German Shepherd on the right
On the left our Labrador Baylor and on the right our German Shepherd Baby. Baby took care of and protected Bronco when he was a pup, just like a good mother.
Our Leonberger Bronco is standing on our red sofa and giving me a hug and a kiss
Our young Leonberger Bronco is giving me a hug.
Jessica is on the left and she is giving our Leonberger Bronco a kiss
Our niece Jessica giving Bronco a kiss
Our 167-pound Leonberger is sitting in my wife’s lap and she is disappearing behind him.
Our Leonberger Bronco sitting in my wife Claudia’s lap. He was the perfect lap dog.
Our Japanese Shin Ryu is sitting in the middle of the floor
Our Japanese Shin Ryu
Our mini-Australian Shepherd puppy is lying on a blanket on the floor while turning his head and looking into the camera.
Our mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo as a puppy.
Our 20-year-old daughter is sitting in between our mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo (left) and our pug Daisy (right) while petting them both
Our daughter petting Rollo and our pug Daisy
Our pug Daisy’s 15th birthday.
Our dogs are sitting on a very nice leather sofa chair. Our mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo is sitting on the left and our pug Daisy on the right. They are looking into the camera.
Rollo and Daisy own the best furniture.
Photo of 32 Leonberger faces
The 2019-2020 Grey Muzzle Awardees. Bronco is on the second row from the top and second from left. Click on the picture to visit the YouTube video. Bronco is at two minutes.
Video showing 32 2019 & 2020 Grey Muzzle Awardees (Leonbergers). Bronco at two minutes in.
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Author: thomasstigwikman

My name is Thomas Wikman. I am a software/robotics engineer with a background in physics. I am currently retired. I took early retirement. I am a dog lover, and especially a Leonberger lover, a home brewer, craft beer enthusiast, I’m learning French, and I am an avid reader. I live in Dallas, Texas, but I am originally from Sweden. I am married to Claudia, and we have three children. I have two blogs. The first feature the crazy adventures of our Leonberger Le Bronco von der Löwenhöhle as well as information on Leonbergers. The second blog, superfactful, feature information and facts I think are very interesting. With this blog I would like to create a list of facts that are accepted as true among the experts of the field and yet disputed amongst the public or highly surprising. These facts are special and in lieu of a better word I call them super-facts.

28 thoughts on “National Love Your Pet Day with Leonbergers and Other Dogs”

  3. What a wonderful family of dogs you’ve had and still have! 💖 Bronco made a perfect lap dog. 😀 All of your photos are adorable and I enjoyed the Grey Muzzle Awards video. Leonbergers are so majestic! And it’s nice to see they have such an international community.

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    1. Thank you so much Debbie. Ha ha, yes Bronco thought he was a perfect lapdog, I am not sure my wife did. You are right about the international community. The Leonberger community is small enough that the different clubs around the world talk to each other and Leonberger owners are engaged in the clubs. For example, the 32 Leonbergers in the video, I knew about half of them. The third one, Pling, the female Leonberger with the big bone, was from Sweden. She was born three weeks before Bronco and died about three weeks before Bronco. Both of them became very old, almost 13. We followed the fate of each others Leonbergers on-line. I know of no other breed where people do that.

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    2. Yes, well the Leonbergers in the video all lived 12 years or longer, which is very unusual for Leonbergers who typically live 8-9 years. It used to be worse. In the past they lived 6-7 years. However, the Leonberger Health Foundation International have succeeded in extending the life of Leonbergers, and this also helps other large breeds. I know of a Leonberger who lived way past 14 years old, Fienchen in Germany.

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  11. Beautiful photos of a lovely family! They look so happy, and the picture of Daisy eating her birthday cake never fails to make me smile. Dogs are so precious, and it’s a treat to be able to see them through your eyes and read about their lives.

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    1. Thank you so much Damyanti. I agree dogs are so precious. Daisy loves to eat. She is sitting right next to me right now and she is barking at me because she wants her dinner early, but it is another half hour. She will be happy in half an hour.

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