*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I thought I’d over-load this post with a bunch of photos of the wild turkeys that call our Swamp home….. They’ve really multiplied recently…and become far less shy….. I recently had to go into the backyard before letting out the hounds…because it was covered with a big flock of visiting turkeys….. They seemed totally unconcerned that I came out and tried herding them over the fence and into the safety of the back…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Ben is our current Irish Wolfhound litter’s Grandfather….. We have Aunts and Great Aunts and Mom and Dad here….. Molly is our oldest Matriarch and Great Aunt at the moment…however Ben gives her no respect….. Ben is and always will be…eternally obnoxious….. We just figured out that Ben is ten years old…but you wouldn’t guess it by looking at him….. He’s a total puppy…through and through…..he never grew up….. Ben’s an eternal juvenile delinquent…(a…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We are no longer worried about problem eaters….. …..(that’s an understatement)….. We are no longer concerned about their successful transition from nursing to solid food….. …..(our current definition of solid food is pasty formula-soaked kibble)….. Everyone smells like sour milk…puppies and humans included….. …..because it’s everywhere….. …..in our hair…under our fingernails…behind our ears….. Nursing from Sabine was so much neater….. The milk went directly from her…into their mouths….. Now that they’re eating gruel…it’s…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Wow…time is flying by….. My daughter’s and I share shifts of sitting up with the puppies in the den….. We’re almost at the stage where they leave their bins…and take up residence in wire cages…(also in the den)….. Maybe we’re being overly protective…but you never know if a split second awareness might be just what a puppy needs to survive some stupid decision….. ………….(plus…I don’t trusts our house cats)…………. ………….(remember the plotting cats…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** We have the majority of a large deck (mostly) finished behind our porch….. It’s right outside our back door….. It’s a simple deck…made of pressure-treated boards…which are placed with a little bit wider space between each board…(so it’s easier to sweep all the Irish Wolfhound dirt and sand through the cracks)….. I love our hounds…but they are sand magnets….. They can’t help it…it just comes with the territory….. My older daughter and her…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Sabine’s babies are growing and healthy….. They are coming up to three weeks old….. Their eyes are open….. And the little fuzz-balls are just starting to think about eating gruel and soaked kibble….. It’s that super fun messy stage…where they wear more than they actually eat….. Sabine has been a great Mom….. She has produced milk abundantly throughout….. We did pull out some special herbs from our apothecary cupboard…to help her maintain and…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Sabine is bouncing back from her puppy delivery….. We’ve taken out her stitches (from the cesarean section)….. Against popular demand…gassy Sabine continues to love her fresh eggs….. My older daughter did a lot of research on what food add-ons would help to increase her milk production….. The list was interesting….. What was even more interesting…were the foods that Sabine really craves eating and begs for….. …..like raw broccoli(?)…(she drooled over the pieces like…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** …..(FYI–a dog trainer friend asked what’s going on with the spots on Sabine’s teeth)….. As I mentioned before…Sabine is not top of her class…intellectually speaking….. …..she’s a wonderful hound…she’s a loving sweet girl….. But some of her decision-making needs improvement….. She plays with rocks…and she chews on grout lines….. If left alone anywhere…she will find something to chew on and destroy….. She never outgrew that stage of puppyhood chewing….. …..we don’t judge…everyone is…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Ben’s at home now…he’s tucked in…he’s safe & sound once again….. But what happened?….. We still really don’t know….. Over a week ago…both Ben and Acacias got out of the backyard….. For over thirty years our backyard has been secure for the Irish Wolfhounds…we have livestock field fencing with secure gates….. They don’t try digging or jumping out….. But then last November…our fence started being cut…in a very organized pre-planned manner….. Bolt cutters…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Ben has still not returned home….. And we continue to look for him….. But we have some Good News to report….. We got an early morning (4:45am) call yesterday from the night shift Security officer on the Wellfields….. He had just seen Ben…heading West on one of their access maintenance roads!….. Because I was raised on a small farm (just like my daughters have been)…we’re used to being galvanized into action…at all hours…