Work, Work, Work...

A few reasons why my job ( omg...I get paid to be around critters!!! ) is the best in the world.

Suzie...who is not nearly as evil as she looks in this photo


Squirt...a puppy mill survivor...who has personality plus!!! and loves to be the ankle biter, lovingly.


Donny...a deaf Cocker, who worries me because of sudden body trembling...a very very soft sweet dog.


Lucky...blind Golden Retriever. She had become an inconvenience to her previous people. Well, she totally matters here.


Lucas...a big ole wonderful dog. Collar issues ( someone used his collar to grab and punish..like a LOT of the dogs here ), but, he is never grabbed here, nor punished. Because he does no wrong. He's a great dog...looking for a home like all the others.


The dogs above are but a few of the reasons why I am loving my job. Another of the reasons is Emily, the calf. We are trying to wean her by watering down her bottles and she is one unhappy baby. She even goes as far as to try and suckle milk from Joy, who has no milk! But Joy is so sweet she stands there for a couple of minutes until Emily realizes she is dry.



I've been working outside with the farm animals this week, so get ready for some more photos of more honey-pies!

Henry after an ( obviously ) exhausting walk....

A couple weeks back we all went for a quick walk/pee break off the highway onto a silent houseless back road. We had spent the day traveling in total 86 miles and visiting 2 different households, both which contained other dogs. It was a wonderful socializing experience for Henry and a great day checking in with friends.

Problem is, none of my dogs sleep in the Van while travelling. None. They are all wide awake and alert. Mix 9 hours of wide awake time, 2 different sets of dogs, LOTS of fun!!!!!, and a 5 month old puppy. After the pee break on the way home....

Hey Henry??? You okay???

Seriously Henry, you okay???

What?

No, really...WHAT??

Random Photo Day

One morning a few years ago, I woke to the above. It seems through the night Watcher and a feather duster got into a gigantic fight. Watcher won.


My soul sister Jo and I at a Schutzhund trial. A fun day...met a few gorgeous dogs but best of all I was able to hang with Jo for a few hours.


A white Pigeon! Taken in Hope this past summer.


Frankie is a tired boy. And my buddy.


Not sure what Ticket was looking at, but she's definitely eyeballin' something!


Henry caught napping in the shower stall.


Ticket caught napping on the sofa.

Thanksgiving

It was a wonderful evening spent with Kelly, ( whom I didn't take any pictures of...what a bad Mommy!! ) Sumeet


my niece Amanda,


and my *grand cats* Sal and Sam



And some excellent eats. The entire meal was beyond delicious.

Sumeet spent the day sweating over a hot stove making this fabulous bird:


Which Kelly carved with as much experience as Julia Child herself!


Sumeet and Amanda made these cute little individual pumpkin cheesecakes!


Amanda was beyond stunned when I told her I had never tried cheesecake. Ha!, ya' should have seen her face! And after eating one of them, I was converted. All I thought about while driving home was the many different flavors of cheesecake out there in the world.....*snarf snarf*

It's sooo nice to be back blogging! I have this shiny new keyboard and wireless set up...I love technology. :))

Going to upload some videos of the dogs running in the fields, occasionally stopping to eat/roll in horse/cow/sheep/goat poop. ( Oh yum. ) They LOVE living here. I'll see ya' in a bit!

Henry.... Ohhhh Henry

Keyboard for my laptop is ordered...should be here within the week, I hope. Please excuse the mess....looks pretty messy without the first letter of the alphabet! I have to type my posts in Word, then copy nd paste here, nd hope the spellchecker picks up the errors.
This honey pie is poifect! Personality plus, handsome to behold , healthy so far…’tis love.
Introducing ears of GSD pup.

He can do ANYTHING he wants to Ticket...she dores him!

The water dish MUST go in the shower,or he spills it. Little dufus.

He has to put his paw in his food nd water dishes so he knows where the stuff is. *grin*

Yesterday was Henry’s attempt t climbing the stirs to our suite. ( have I told you that I m in love with Ticket??) Henry got up to the third step with my guidance, then when he looked like he ws bout to give up, Ticket came down, touched noses with him, ran to the top and barked. He smiled…seriously smiled, then went few more steps nd stopped. Ticket once gin ran down, touched noses and ran to the top and barked. Henry smiled gin and climbed to the top!! It was magnificent to watch that unfold. Geeez, she never fails to make me smile.

My god,this missing key is beyond irritating! It hs taken me 2 fucking hours to just post this wee bit!!

Puter Problems

My laptop has an attitude problem. It won't type the letter *A*. And so I am using this weird Macbook in the office at Saints. Hopefully when I get it back from the computer hospital, it won't cost me a lot of money!!

Pisses me off, because I have some really photos of all my guys! Went to an abandoned paintball park yesterday set into the forest...it was a lovely afternoon. And Henry walked, for the first time, on a leash! He had a wee temper tantrum when I had to hold him back from some nasty mean Stinging Nettles though. He fought like a trooper, but I won. :))

Hopefully my computer is back tomorrow!