jne 30 2023

as of yesterday. judy and i have seen  and "doggied" 82 people this week- yesterday we went to the special needs kids where 30 kids and ? a parent? sat in a circle-- lots of screaming and yelling--- but. judy did get them softened down to  just plain loud while she walked right hext to them with larkey-- who didn't seem to care a all.. good dog !  pasta was pretty steady too.... sizzle preferred to wander with the staff and jiminey stayed with me...  he is our fastest "get the cookie out of th e fry pan"  and run back to me...  most of the kids were terrified of the dogs but before we weredone they were all giggling..not only cookies but---- pat the tail ---broke thru to some,  I have decided—for the moment— to bring them into the auditorium unleashes in a very controlled walk

because although the letting them in running it is very spectacular it mentally sets the dogs up for a little more action and then I wanted so yesterday worked perfectly I made leashes and we did very well. Judy is spectacular add crowd conversations.    I think we're booked to go to that place fairly regularly I'm looking forward to getting our horse and donkeys in the same place. they need some work.

so if you have some kids that need a summer job or I should say summer project we have a bunch of donkeys here that are gonna have to learn to walk and trot nicely on a leash before next October. this is obviously something I can't even attempt but  any of these people would are looking for exercise it certainly would be an interesting project pick a donkey and see if you can get them ready for this pack burro race which is scheduled for October and all it would entail is getting them out on a leash but the few pieces of carrots a little bit of grain the tin can or something and get them to move forward let's say learned to do it they're fine but we have a bunch right now that are basically slightly wild and prefer to just stand around and he cookies and carrots and do nothing..  they just need to be convinced that walking and trotting ahead is fun and they will they will do it you can Google pack burro racing -- and watch some of the antics in Colorado up and down the hills we're going to try for it in topsfield in September October.

 

there could be an advanced group who could try and put the donkeys on the trailers.  eventually I should be able to find at least one donkey that could do stairs and we could take into these senior residence places I I once had Mary who was a big donkey I had her in brooksby village which is a very Swank seeing your place they loved it and no problems of what duct tape on her feet and she was loose in there pretty much Mary Mary was something else again but donkeys can be like that.. when I mentioned that somebody else said don't forget the chickens because I am convinced that the chickens are smarter than we give them credit for and if anybody wanted to try and teach one to play the star spangled banner on a piano I'd be happy to buy a one of those little toy pianos and let you have a go at it I don't think it would be too difficult because I think the way you do it is the chicken pecks at the laser beam but any rate that that's a whole nother experiment with animals that I would be happy  to fund.

 

Speaking of children as in Boy Scouts Girl Scouts with energy we have a perfect project in collecting all the white fencing that we have in several places around the property and stack it neatly in the parking pit. 

it is scattered all over the place it should be collected and stacked neatly..  a perfect outdoor job which somebody could call community service.