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Conniving Hounds

Conniving Hounds

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** They got me up at 4:16 am this morning….. …..(by “they” I mean…..the Irish Wolfhounds)….. …..they didn’t intend to wake me up….. …..they would have been much happier if I’d just kept sleeping in blissful ignorance….. …..but as a mother and a farmer…..I’ve developed that “extra” sense….. …..that sense that tells me…..when things aren’t right….. Not that I want to be…..but…

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~~~Puppy Progress Report~~~

~~~Puppy Progress Report~~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** Irish Wolfhound puppies and sleep deprivation go hand in hand….. But I’ve had a couple decent naps….. …..the boogers are growing…..I’ve showered….. Every litter is different…..there is almost an over-all “litter personality”….. Where this group is relatively small (only 5)…..they are robust…..very large…..and maturing quickly….. Willow is producing more than enough milk for the five poopers…..plus they have already started on…

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~~~Anticipation~~~

~~~Anticipation~~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** Either the puppies aren’t here yet….. …..or I’m under a deluge of puppy-related-poop-a-la….. I wrote this post ahead of time anticipating being busy with the puppers and having little or no time to write….. I’m probably taking loads of pictures as we speak….. …..they’ll be stuck in my camera for awhile…..because there’s quite a multi-stage-step-system….. …..in order to retrieve the pictures…

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…Are They Here Yet…?

…Are They Here Yet…?

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** I’m a worrier….. …..always have been….. …..doubt I’ll change any time soon….. I’m better when I can actively be doing something….. …..actively involved….. Anticipating “things” is the WORST….. Willow did well whelping the last time she had a litter….. …..she’s as big as a house right now….. I’ve got everything as organized as I’m ever going to be….. …………………(?)………………… …..now it’s…

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***The Puppies Are Coming***

***The Puppies Are Coming***

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** *****THE PUPPIES ARE COMING!!!  THE PUPPIES ARE COMING!!!**** It’s time to prepare…..it’s time to have All Hands On Deck….. It’s time to Gird Your Loins….. Willow’s due date is December 19th….. Only she and Mother Nature will know for sure when the puppers will arrive….. She delivered her first litter naturally…..(two years ago)….. …..no cesarean-section was necessary….. …..(apparently Will O’The Wisp…

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~~~The Pup Trio~~~

~~~The Pup Trio~~~

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I thought I should write an update on the three puppy-girls (who we kept from the cascade of litters that recently occurred)….. (BTW—at this point in time……I am no where close to even considering ANYONE whelping another litter…..I’m still recuperating) We kept Sabine from Killian’s puppies…..that first litter was over a year ago now….. And we kept Sloane out of Willow’s litter from last November….. And then there’s the young lady from Molly’s litter from last March—–that’s Val…..(Code of Chivalry)……..

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***Sweeping Up The Pieces***

***Sweeping Up The Pieces***

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Addy’s doing better… She’s getting her waistline back… She’s getting her appetite back… Her temperature has remained within normal range…….phew… I milked her out several times for a few days after her baby died…..and then filtered & froze her milk……. …..that way we’ll have some horse milk available in the freezer to supplement anyone’s foal who might need some……. …..plus it appears that Addy was a dairy cow in her past life…..!….. …..I was so worried that she wouldn’t produce…

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~~~~~~~Hadrian~~~~~~~

~~~~~~~Hadrian~~~~~~~

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Farm life is hardly ever a sugar-coated existence… That circle-of-life-thing…….sucks… Digging a grave is horrible……. …..digging a grave for a baby is worse… But along with loosing Addy’s foal…….I didn’t want to pass over Hadrian’s death… And yes…..Hadrian (our senior Irish Wolfhound stud) passed away suddenly in the middle of “all of this”… He woke up one morning…..ate a full breakfast…..played with his youngest granddaughter (Val)…..they played to exhaustion in the kitchen…..then both laid down for a nap….. …..and Hadrian…

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ASMR and Puppy Babies

ASMR and Puppy Babies

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We have three remaining puppies… Val (who we are keeping)…..Penny (who is going to a friend this coming weekend)…..and the little orange ribbon boy. I have trouble remembering the sequence of letters in the SMR-thingie… I don’t know what they stand for… …..I should probably find out… ***What ASMR Means*** In the eighties, I’d heard about right and left brain hemispheric synchronization… (my brain has a continuous Doo-Wop beat…..not really synchronized at all)… I’m thinking that ASMR and the brain-thingie…

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Whirl Wind

Whirl Wind

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And then there were three… All the puppies are now sold/gone/& starting their new lives… And yes, I am suffering from empty-nest-syndrome… I am… I miss the little furry jellybeans… I do… I’ll have no excuse now for not brushing my hair or teeth… I’ll have to give Patrice a good soaking & scrubbing & laundering… I miss them… I love my puppies… I love this breed……. …….But the people…….? Not so much… Most all of the families, who wanted…

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