Bath Time!

Awww...poor Crue!

Slow days

Business has been kinda slow lately, so that gives me more time to play with the dogs. Crue is starting to mature a bit and is becoming less obnoxious to the other dogs, which they are very happy about. Reign was playing with Crue yesterday morning and actually wrestling with him. At first I thought how nice he's wanting to play, but then after watching for awhile I'm thinking Reign was just trying to tire him out. Either way he did a good job of it because Crue finally collapsed panting and I swear Reign had a big grin on his face. Mike was hiding behind me the whole time. Crue is still attaching his teeth to Mike, either his neck or his face and Mike just won't do anything about it. I've tried correcting him myself, but if I'm not right there at that moment it doesn't do any good and with 6 dogs running around I can't always be right there policing everyone's moves. Mike waited until Reign and Crue were done doing laps around the house and Crue finally settled down before he ventured out from behind me. Of course Crue is never obnoxious to Meg. Meg will all of a sudden just run out and tackle Crue to the ground and pin him there for a while. Meg is the only one that seems to have any control over him. He doesn't bother Seth though. I think it is because Seth just ignores him. But anyway, I think Crue is growing up. He's calming down and starting to listen to me. He's very obedient and even if I yell at him across the way for something he will immediately come to me and apologize. He's biddable but also seems very confident of himself. He never cowers no matter what is going on. He greets all the customers..a bit over exuberantly at times and just seems very happy. I can hardly wait to see how he is on sheep. But the advice is to wait till he's closer to a year before starting him, so I have to be patient myself. He is only just 6 months old so he has a lot more growing up to do. I took some more pics of him and Reign this morning. Again Reign thinks cameras are punishment and he just won't sit, but Crue seems to like having his picture taken.

I swore I'd never do it...but I did

I've always advised against shaving dogs down unless there is a reason. Well I went against my own advice and shaved Meg. She was itching all the time and was clumping her hair up. She was also panting and hot. It has been hot and its very humid here. Anyway, here is what she used to look like

And here is what she looks like now.

I think she looks like a big chihuahua in this picture.

I wanted to try and get some new pics of Crue so I thought I'd have him sit by Reign so I could get a comparison picture of the two of them side by side. Easier said than done. It was next to impossible to get them to stay still and sit nicely for me. I finally had to tie him up so he wouldn't keep laying down just before I could take the picture. And no, I'm not talking about Crue, I'm talking about Reign! For some reason he thought I was punishing him. Even though I brought out treats and even a Frisbee, which is his favorite thing. Crue was a complete ham, he kept posing for me like he totally understood the whole thing. I'd say no, move back, he'd move back and cock his head, like he was asking if this is ok. Meanwhile he looks great in the pics and Reign looks like a deer caught in the headlights.

Nostalgia and goats

I was looking through some of my boxes of stuff that I got out of storage a couple weeks ago. I found a bunch of pictures of some of the animals I've owned (and still own). The first is a picture of Seth when he was still under 1 yr old. He's 9 now.

The second one is a horse we had named Blue with our Poodle riding on his back. Seth and Tank are helping. Tank was an ACD/Rottie X dog that we rescued and raised on goat milk at 2 days old. His mother buried all her pups and he was the sole survivor. He was the result of a brother/sister mating from the neighbors dogs.

These are a few of the goats we used to raise. Mostly Nubians, but I also had some Alpines. We raised them for their milk and to sell. The light colored one is Alana.

These are some of my kids...two legged and four legged. I always wanted to send in some of these pics to the toy manufacturer and tell them how kid proof their toys were.

There is a human kid in amongst the goat kids. The goat kids were always so cute. I'd recruit all the children on the block to come help feed the babies their bottles. I sometimes had quite a few and they were never left with the Moms. I would never have gotten any milk if they'd been left on to nurse. I had one doe, Molly, that would always go check on her babies before coming into the milking shed to be milked. She had no problem with me feeding her babies, but she had to always make sure they were ok. She also liked to drink Pepsi out of a glass. She was probably my favorite of all the does we had over the years.