we are saved.. noel is in heat !! praises be !!!
now we can skip moriah for another 6 months anyway... somewhere in here there is an arguement that nature provides for her to be pregnant at a year old.. -- she is not that cute little puppy anymore . she is a 120 pound dog with bones in her front legs like telephone poles. luna had pups before she was a year old-- thanks to a nasty accident- and went on to have 4 more litters before she retired-- and is now a perfectly sound 10 year old-- walking the nahant beach area with sunday sandy and doing a little therapy work besides. she is bailey's sister.
i have to remembr we have so many new cp's---i have to remind abput details sometimes.
now the problem will be bentley-- who's last litter with her is wonderful-- moriah-murphy- magnus
or do we try and see if yellow has figured out the process yet...
technically l like yellow's shape a little better-- - and he is a merle-- noel is black- so we should be ok... it is a crap shoot... if i strike out for the slightly better conformaion i could have 8 green pups with two heads and everyone would come with 20- 20 hindsight.. there really ws nothing wrong with bentley's bunch.... we are getting alot of those --- and walter has not really started yet.- he has the two gals lined up for him -- opal and moriah... now to get him lined up.....
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i have a project i wish someone would tackle---
dog food. i would like a spread sheet with the brands of dog food and their first 6 ingredients
like
purina chow kirkland pedigree chicken soup
chicken by products 2 1 3
beet pulp 4 5 4
corn 1 2 1 3
things like that
i think it would be very interesting... and help to make decisions
i know corn has such bad rep and i am not sure it is not just the adverrtising that has us trained to think that way.
dog food is a religion to some--- i have heard some "diets" that i wonder if i shouldnt maybe get those folks to invest in our puppy breath company.
dogs seem to live on raw chicken necks-- but if we fed that we would have 60 volunteers wiht salmonella from bacteria laden counter tops.-- and the stench of the few that fell behind the trash can... yuck..... there is a reason we cook our food.
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on the topic of food... and strange phone calls-- i had a call from a very pleasent woman in iowa who had one of the strangest offers i have heard of.
she wanted to donate to us 14 tons of bread making flour... i could not hang up on her..
turns out... the company she works for in iowa has a railroad car full of the stuff that was refused by the baking company in boston.. so her boss told her to call some animal people in mass.. and see if she could get rid of it. i think she found us thru janinie's hope for horses.
i don't turn down many offers of free stuff-- but can't you see bread rising and spilling out the windows..
i sent her to the colby family in the newburyport area-- they have a dairy and pigs-
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today's schedule?
hmmmmmm
maybe praying for a new camera from fedex -
keep in mind once we have it there is still a whole bunch of getting it to talk to california so they can mix the sound and put it out on the internet..
it is not easy
but we are ready
and the t tent camera is un attached and in the feed room awaiting it's new h ome in the arena
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we have had the offer of a range rover--- got to get that letter off today telling them how little we spend on overhead. it has been some company car... our durango is very tired.
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shelia and i went roving looking for new calendar locations-- and ended up at ann getchells- the winthrop property has alot of old stonework-- walls, cabins... barns and old trees .. i bet william would love-- as a matter of fact he may have already shot some commercials there years ago... it is a great place for that kind of thing.
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bentley ----yesterday he was on puppy hill--- and he wanted to get in the flat field... i swear he llooked over his shoulder before standing on his hind legs and flipping eht latch on the gate-- and then looked over his shoulder again before walking thru the gate... tracy has it on her phone... i will try and get it.
and so it goes
