nov 30 2021

yesterday in my monkey fisting mode,,, i gave a zipper pull one to one of the kids who is sent here by the state to "learn a job". -- and she immedately said "now i am a member of the family". hmmmmmmm. interesting... so i made sure everyone in the yard had a mf on their jacket--- inclusion and exclusion are a very interesting study... exploited by teh facebook process of. friending /unfriending.---- there is some ratio i am sure..--- it is a dangerous place...  you need to have 3000 friends to balance in. case  you have one enemy. better yet. don't stick you neck out and just keep praying it comes out right in the end...

it is cold- ?like you didn't notice?-- that means what did we forget to get in out of the cold???? like ---the case of oranges ( yes). the presure washer (npt yet)???? like all the places with 4 hoses hooked to one outlet...and all hoses must be laid flat so the one little drip does not gather friends and make a1/2 inch block of ice in an otherwise empty hose...-- then there is the pond... and the thin ice...shades of pushing janine out on the ice to rescue a stud dog ( i forgot who)she did get him out... and was very wet... gates must be locked,,,,  guinnea hens only.... drag my snow plow toi the front if the gqrage.... it hooks to my car... in the front... with the typical horse trailer hitch.  

snow plow. with up down---- right left-- in a heated car is a real luxury -- gone are the days of a small kabota with no cab and a moving blanket and leather flying helmet.-- i always wanted to plow snow with a team of draft horses..... but never got to it.... you can not understand horse power unless you have driven. a team.

there was a guy.......

in middle new york-- dairy farmer-- had an older team of black draft horse... dick and duke... duke was teh steadiest horsse i have ever met...  dick was "showy".  they were-- we were told...the lead tema of teh walt disney hitch in florida--- i  dont doubt it...funny guy-- talked about traininbg new drqaft horses. by spreading manure... if they behaved they went around th e hill.  if they didn't they went up and down the hill... 

We bought them and had fun wit them—becuse they were  sooooooo reliable.... it was when we were”developing’ this p;ace/// and I loved to practice dragging logs around with duke--  if duke was not so welll.  trained, I would have only one leg... as he was pulling a log (....aka piece of huge tree.....)... up to a pile near teh guest house... and i slipped just enough to get my leg between the log and a tree stump-- i yelled whoa... and he planted his 4 feet and never moved til. i got organized. we had a friend who knew draft horses.. so my husband drove those in parades when i drove my 8 hitch of donkeys.

we had so much fun with dick and duke that we went to a draft horse auction and bought 2 pregnant mares.... beautiful grey mares... and we found out when at horse auctions. you bid on one and pay for the pair-- so when i went to wrte the check it was not.  $3500 but $7000

this computer is ill today...better shuffle on...

please--- chicken bricks----------don't forget????

 

you folk are learning.....but keep in mind experience comes from bad experience----and i have had alot--- therefore those expeiences. will "color" my opinions.... my other daughter gwen. ( north carolinq) has a bunch of corgi's. and found out how much fun it is to cheer up people with her dogs doing therra-y work... she just added 2 to her collection and is in th e process. of getting them ok'd-- i was once a therapy dog inspector-- before they gave me 7 thick books to read about being a therapy dog...the one biggest and baddest problem is. to jump or not to jump. 

And ----just how long and pointy are the toenails--  because even the slightest scratch an older person can take six months to heal  ...so there's no way you want that dog the cause any break in anybody's skin even if it is in the process of being friendly ...most of these therapy dogs are tiny little things you pick up and put in somebody's lap or in bed beside them but in my world you don't do that.  ------youve all seen pictures of George in bed with Bella after she's had surgery but George by now is a very cool calculating service dog who knows exactly where his feet are..

so if I take a dane  into a hospital I will make a point of standing by the persons head ---and if they want the dog to jump up---i. ask the dog to jump which puts all those toenails about at the bedridden persons waste totally padded with blankets in my case I would never stand at the foot of the bed and take any chance on my dog putting his feet on the bed----- little details of life so in my case when you talk about getting certified therapy dog I would always have to first consider the person who would be handling the dog in the first place.  any any of my danes. can simply do a walkthrough and not even stick their head in anybody's lap or use my wonderful purple fry pan. to keep the dog's attention where i want it to be.....   that cheers everybody up because they're so funny looking in the first place for letting a dog jump on a bed it has to be a calculated maneuver -------tiny little dog pick him up and put him at the person's feet but you certainly don't want to those toenails-----if they scratch somebody's hand in a nursing home. it's nearly a federal project.. I still have the hole in my hand I got about two weeks ago with it from Wilson.

the absolutely worst case scenario I have ever been in with the potential of costing me millions of dollars---I had as animal episodes ------the call for a Great Dane to jump and put their feet on someone's shoulder look him in the face----- not something I'd allow my dogs to do ----whatever---- but I spent time ahead of time getting feisty ---a lovely female dog i used her lot in commercials I got her to jump put her feet on somebody's shoulders lick.  him in the face in preparation------ so I go to the location for this commercial and I got out of the car and just about dropped becausr the person that she was supposed to put her shoulder feed on the shoulders of was ---Cher ----and all I could think of was if that dog miscalculates by about 1/2 an inch and scratches that face I'm gonna be broke------- so having been terrified at the topic of scratching somebody's face, I'm nervous about it .....I'd like to discourage it as quickly as possible and anybody babysitting puppies around here you could make me very angry by letting a dog even attempt to get near your face because puppies have a way of jumping and snapping and that's even worse ----------so let's really concentrate on 4 on the floor right from when they're little babies..

so now on the topic of training volunteers we have a lot of new volunteers lately which is absolutely wonderful---- we need them we could we could stand all we could get ---because we never have enough ---there's always more things ---at any rate when a new person is around they don't know some of the rules we have or why we have them which is even worse and just yesterday we had two situations where one man and his son decided it was fun to chase the dogs stamping their feet out and chasing the dogs that that was would be fun as it as a puppy but to have that Basic Instinct in the dog when they get loose in some parking lot on Route 1 ----you don't want anybody any dog to even think of running away..---- so we don't do that -------the other thing we don't do is tug of war ------these cute little 30 pound puppies in about 20 minutes ae gonna  weigh 150 pounds would be very capable of grabbing your pant leg and dragging you up and over the hill ----so we discourage any concept of tug of war ----- awfully long time ago a dog did get ahold of my  shirtsleeve and pulled...

 I fell down these are big dogs ---so it's called plan ahead..

well there's another related dragging of people in my repertoire ---it was winter the main person was Bobby Orr----- the location was in downtown Boston where they had set up an RV to keep everybody from freezing to death----- and the shot called for a dog Walker to get dragged on the sidewalk about a whole block ----- they did her up with newspapers and cardboard and things  and   I had a couple dogs on the end of a string rope leash whatever---- and I use this horse halters backwards and upside down as harnesses and I just got at the end of the shot behind the camera and called those dogs and they came running and she was on her face in the snow plowing snow up in front of her as she was dragged...but they pulled her with no trouble whatsoever -----so with that in mind we discourage having dogs even think about pulling which is sometimes a little awkward when somebody goes from walking to a wheelchair either permanently or temporarily the dog's got to be re educated about yes it's alright to pull.

Well one more really short wheelchair story..  for whatever reason I can't remember---- I was in a wheelchair in Costco with Bentley ----and I'll bet you without fear of contradiction I am the only one to be thrown out of Costco for speeding.

NOV 28B 2021

 Now for a few words from someone who is often of few words...BUD ----     '"wilson is a lot better than the day he bit you." ------wonderful--- so lets write a  "how to train" book on that one.---------if you have a puppy that is too mouthy and causing people to bleed blood, you need the right ingredients...... get yourself an older jack russell terrier with an attitude ----an owner with a tendency to forget where she has left her dog.... add one cowboy who does not see what the fuss is all about... 'just turn him loose with 'ACE' " --- ace is his dog with a whole lot of street sense---------.then just-----   add water and stir.  

Now for a few words from someone who is often of few words...BUD ----     '"wilson is a lot better than the day he bit you." ------wonderful--- so lets write a  "how to train" book on that one.---------if you have a puppy that is too mouthy and causing people to bleed blood, you need the right ingredients...... get yourself an older jack russell terrier with an attitude ----an owner with a tendency to forget where she has left her dog.... add one cowboy who does not see what the fuss is all about... 'just turn him loose with 'ACE' " --- ace is his dog with a whole lot of street sense---------.then just-----   add water and stir.  

 

wilson is better..... if less blood is any indication..... we have had a few inquiries about qdopting him...... i would like to find someone  into trick training... which i think would be his forte. 
sitting here going thru my list of. pequiliar friends..... there's an interesting group..... there is one... beth--  she trained   what was said to be the  best dane agility dog in the coutry. nico... a pretty white dane-----and he was deaf.  stone deaf. -- i think beth is around somewhere-- up toward nashua. nh  areqa??? i don't even know her last name.. but let me tell you ,if she arrives in my driveway i will drop everything and sit for coffee with her and learn more about training than FROM  anyone else i know.

 

you have heard me say-- find a well trained dog and pay attention to the owner...., as they are real trainers...  the rest of the world are all wannabees who want to tell you all the rules they read in the last book--a paperbook at that...  a couple of our "graduates "  are darn good.. and could stand to take a phd course with beth....kids who are no longer kids... like laura qnd a couple others of the same age group...

 

I heAR THEY ARE DOING MOVIES AGAIN IN THE AREA....  APPARENTLY BETSY( SCARLOTT’S OWNER)  ‘S SHOP  WAS IN THE BACKGROUND OF TH TOWN PUB AND WAS ON SCREEN..

 

WHICH MADE ME REALIZE THAT IS WHY I AM GETTING CALLS FOR PEQUILIAR THINGS... – AND WHY I SHOULD GET MATT TO SIGN UP  WITH MASS FILM BUREAU... BECAUSE IF ANYONE NEEDS A COWBOY, HE CERTAINLY IS ONE... WOULD NOT NEED ANY COACHING.

 

MOST PEOPLE DO NOT RELALIZE WHEN THEY FILM... THEY NEED  MORE THAN THE NORMAL SPEAKING ACTORES.   THEY NEED.  “EXTRAS”   -- IT DOES NOT TAKE ANY SPECIAL TALENT—LAST I KNEW IT PAID $25 A DAY—YOU WORE WHAT THEY PUT ON YOU AND STOOD WHERE THEYU SAID TO STAND... $25...  YOU WERE A THING..  AND IF IT INVOLVED HANGING OUT A 3^RD STORY WINDOW WITH SOMEONE HOLDING YOU BY THE SEAT OF YOUR PANTS..  YOU DON.T EVEN LET THE PRIVACY ACT COME TO MIND.   I HAD NEARLY THAT  IN SOME MOVIE INVOLVING A CHRISTMS TREE AND A BIG ACTOR COMING THRRU THE DOR SO THE DOG HAD TO CHANGE  WHAT HE WAS LOOKING AT...  THEY GOT 2 APPLES FOR ME TO STAND ON ( REMEMBER THE APPLES WERE BOXES. 8X12X24 ?).    AND I HAD TO LEAN WAY OVER THE TREE WITHOUT  FALLING INTO IT.. AND THEY...    THE GAFFERS....JUST GRABBED.   AND I DID NOT FALL.

ALL IN A DAYS WORK.

 

MOVING ON.....IT IS SUNDAY... NOT A SHATTING SUNDYA... BUT THAT  IS.  COMING...PLEASE DO KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE CHICKEN NUMBERS........  TH E HOLIDAY SHATTINGS ARE ALWAYS  DIFICULT... PEOPLE DO HAVE “OTHER THINGS”.   --- BUT DO WHAT YOU CAN... THANKS...

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NOV 27 2021

the story of larkey--- and that feeling of being  "washed out".  

... We started by making a list Of what lacky has managed to swallow in his career – the the most complicated of which I was personally aware was a pair of socks and if normal human beings cannot match a pair of socks that go through a washing machine ----lucky can ---- & manage to swallow two socks of the same kind and they made it all the way through ---other people added to the list of a sheepskin winter head band was thought to be maybe the biggest thing he swallowed -----a washcloth he had swallowed in his career before and it goes on from there including yesterday on a washcloth again -------now we've studied what kind of washcloth that might have been I have always requested very inexpensive white wash claws to take care of whelping puppies because they're rough surface is good for stimulating pUps and they get so impossibly dirty we just throw them out so we have a great quantity of very inexpensive lightweight white washcloths along with a few better ones that people have sent us ------

-so the debate was what kind did he swallow----- the pile from which he took the wash clause were all the iinexpensive white ----not very heavy ---well then it became a debate----do we leave it there and let it go through? because on top of this la------LAcky has had severe diarrhea due to Giardia.. and my feeling was I didn't see how a washcloth was gonna block him up when everything was going through at 90 miles an hour ending up with what is often called projectile diarrhea the worst kind------- at any rate he'd been on pills for Giardia... but in a scientific understanding of our problem of the washcloth in the tummy.. the pills for Giardia were pills to kill off the funny little bugs that were giving him diarrhea... and the pills were not intended to physically block up and slow down the operation ----so speed was still in our favor.

lucky is one huge dog----- all of him  is big from his toenails to his tail he is very large so all that stuff in the middle from end to end was relatively large also and one very lightweight washcloth might not even be noticed... in the rapid moving  river which currently was his digestive system.

but after two hours of debate ---we woke him from the couch where he was sound asleep and decided on the hydrogen peroxide method of vomiting.   I did call George to ask his opinion and check on dosage which I never can remember---and he thought probably the hydroperoxide was the best way to go and he did say about 10CC every 10 minutes with a maximum of 60 CCS.. and that will take somewhere between 5 minutes and three days to make the dog vomit.... usually..

 

for those of you who are writing this down for future reference that 10CC every 10 minutes was probably Georges calculation for a dog that's weighs. 160 pounds that is huge.... I'm sure that gets scaled down for a wander type Jack Russells. ---------however I have a large supply of 60CC syringes because I use them for a lot of things.. from trying to manufacture a small goat milking machine... or....   a dog milking machine .....   to a Thanksgiving.  Turkey baster--and so many projects in between.

It really was no problem at all the squirt about 15 CC at a time down his throat which having stared down that great gaping hole-- I could see where a washcloth would fit very nicely.  for 4 squirts of 15 CC each-------

 I Ate my T LEFT OVER... dinner waiting for the vomit process... in the animal business you end up with a lot of skills none of which will ruin your appetite... I went to bed and left lucky sleeping on the sofa and caring the overnight person was armed with a bunch of bath towels and wash clothes.  and somewhere around midnight lucky found it within himself to   part with said washcloth.    Without complication .

 

And this morning as I write the daily doggie he has appeared behind me telling me that he really needs a whole handful of cookies this morning because his tummy is very empty -----in a very empty tummy on a Great Dane will vomit bile which is why we try and give cookies late at night or early in the morning saves a little bit of  CLEAN UP work. 

 

It was in the big turn of the wheel an extremely efficient operation ... AND the problem was solved without any difficulty-----  being on camera is very interesting for you people and it's also interesting for me to provide this education and some of the comments I get along with it it kind of works both ways ....  so to complete your education you might find it interesting for me to include a couple of the comments I got regarding the simple swallowing of the washcloth... here goes normal stuff like.  

     my dog ate a  dish towell-  $2800 surgery

      my weinermraner passed a wash cloth.. no problem 

      good luck

       let us know teh outcome....

and there is always one

This incident NEVER EVER EVER SHOULD HAVE EVER PLAYED OUT!!!!!

that person has no idea of what life on crazy acres is like with tall dogs.  nothing is safe.

we do try---

 i suggest for educational purposes that person  read "PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISY'S"   by ?? peg bracken???  an old book for sure. 

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FUGEN--  I GET SOME GREAT COMMENTS FROM HER--- NOT ONLY THAT BU T.  A COUPLE YEARS AGO SHE NOTICED NO TWO PLATES  OF OURS MATCHED.... AND MOST WERE CHIPPED.. SO SHE SENT US SOME MATCHING PLATES.... FOR WHICH I THANK HER EVERY MORNING....  AND THOSE WERE OUR T-DAY PLATES SAVING US FROM PAPER PLATES...

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THANKS FOR ALL THE BALTIMORE SHOT TOWER INFORMATION..I KNEW IT HAD SOMETHING.... NOW WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT... WHAT IS THE SCIENCE FACT BEHING SO TALL A TOWER AND DROPPING INTO COLD ?WATER.. MAKING THE SHOT ROUND???????  

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RECIPIENT--- JOSH ..( AT AGE ?11?).   NOW HAS 700 FEET OF ROPE AND I LOCATED 400 RUBBER BALLS -- FOR HIS  CRANT  FOR MAKING MONKEY FISTS..I CAN NOT IMAGINE--- HOWEVER   ----WITH A NATIONAL SHORTAGE OF TRUCK DRIVERS BETTER TO BE PREPARED.

 NOV 26 2021

ON WE GO..... THE CURRENT GAME SEEMS TO BE WHERE'S WALDO AKA WILSON????... I DO NOT KNOW... I AM COMFORTABLE HE IS WITH JANINE OR MATT.... BOTH OF WHOM ARE VERY CAPABLE-- THO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THAN LIFE AT CRAZY ACRES..  IF WE PUT HIM IN A CRATE/KENNEL HERE BY HIMSELF HE WOULD BE VERY SAFE. AND BORED MINDLESS... TO BE OUT RUNNING WITH.  ACE  OR. WANDA IS FAR MORE SUITED TO HIS GENERAL PERSONALITY.... ALL BE IT... THERE IS A SAFETY ELEMENT---I CAN ACCEPT IT BECAUSE BOTH ACE AND WANDA HAVE SURVIVED FOR YEARS WITH THE "CASUQL RESTRAINT" OF LIFE WITH JANANEOR MATT...

I HAVE WRITTEN BEFORE ON THE TYPE DOG I USED IN FILMS-- PLEASE SOMEBODY GO BACK AND LOOK IT UP---- THE GENERIC FARM DOG... AND THE HOMELESS PERSON'S DOG. ---  WILSON WOU LD BE CLEVER ENOUGH TO LEARN A BUNCH OF NONSENSE FOR THE FILM INDUSTRY. .." HERE TAKE THIS SODA CAN AND DROP IT IN THAT TRASH CAN" OR " GRAB THAT TURKEY LEG OFF THE THANKSGIVING TABLE AND RUN TO THAT CLOSET"( BOTH DONE BY CONNIE THE CORGI).

 BUT STAND AT. THE TOP OF THE STAIRS AND TRY AND FIGURE OUT HOW TO EASE YOUR PARTNER DOWN ONE STEP AT A TIME.. IS IN MY OPINION,... NOT WITHIN HIS FUTURE...JOB DESCRIPTION. THEREFORE I AM NOT COMFORTABLE SPENDING ANYMORE OF DONOR MONEY THAN ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO PROVIDE FOR HI S HAPPINESS. GO BACK TO WORRYING IF ANY DOG OF OURS.... IS DESTINED TO BE A KIDS DOG OR AN ADULT ( VETERANS TYPE). 

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AS FOR TRAINING----I DON'T---- LONG AGO I DID... NOT SINCE BEING ELECTROCUTED. ?2016???? --IN THE VIDEO OF MY LAST TRAINING EXERCISE ----WHICH WAS TO TEST THE MBA SUBWAY...HANDICAPPED ELEVATOR --- I STOOD FOR 23 SECONDS WAITING FOR THE ELEVATOR.-- I HAVE NOT STOOD FOR 23 SECONDS SINCE..... SO   I HAVE SET UP THE PROCESS FOR OTHERS TO DO ALL THE. ACTUAL WORK.. AND I SIT AROUND...  AND MAKE SUGGESTIONS -- LIKE. "  WHEN TRAINING A BLACK DOG TO JUMP INTO THE CAR AND LOAD UP... MOVE THE VEHICLE INTO THE SHADE... IT IS TOO HOT TO SPEND TIME IN THE SUN WHEN THE SHADE IS AVAILABLE. "  I AM FULL OF THOSE---- AS I RIDE AROUND--- IN MY CAR OR GOLF CART.....BUT WALKING MORE THAN 30 FEET IS VERY DIFFICULT. --- 

  IN THE YARD- OR IN THE HOUSE, I WILL. JUMP IN AS BEST I CAN TO BREAK UP  AN ARGUMENT--- OR POTENTIAL ARGUMENT.----- BECAUSE SOMETIMES I CAN SEE TROUBLE COMING--WHERE REGULAR PEOPLE ARE OBLIVIOUS.... LIKE 6 "MALE APPENDAGES "   IN THE SAME ROOM...--- MAYBE LAURA KIAULANAS(BMW KENNEL) COULD HAVE 4 STUD DOGS IN THE SAME ROW BOAT....,. BUT.. I CAN NOT-- AND I AM UNWILLING TO RISK IT. ----THE LAST FULL DOG FIGHT I JUMPED INTO WAS BENTLEY AND WALTER-- I HAD BENTLEYS FRONT END. AND " THE OTHER PARTY" GRABBED WALTERS 2 MALE APPENDAGES--- AND PULLED--- DON'T KNOCK IT.....THAT WORKED -- I WONDER IF THAT IS AN APPROVED METHOD OF SEPARATING. 2 ANGRY MALE DOGS.***********IT CERTAINLY WORKED... AND THAT END DOES NOT BITE...

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MOVING ALONG.... 

WE DID SURVIVE T-DAY- WITH A TYPICAL TURKEY LEFT IN THE GUEST HOUSE FOR LEFTOVERS...

SPEAKING OF FOOD.. AND TEH GUEST HOUSE.......ON WEDNESDAY WE--- BRYANT AND I --- PLANTED 8 OR SO RAT TRAPS AROUND RATTY AREAS. -- PUTTING THEM IN DOG CRATEES SO THE DOGS COULD NOT GET THEM.. AS OF LAST NIGHT WE DID NOT HAVE ANY IN THE 3 TRAPS I CHECKED...

.I HAD BAITED.  PEANUT BUTTEER BACON.. SUGAR. AND YOGURT -----WE SHOULD HAVE CAUGHT SOMETHING... FOR DELIVERY BY THE ----FRESH FROZEN RODENT DELIVERY COMPANY--  ANY SNAP TRAPPED.  RODENT. IS CAREFULLY PACKAGED AND STORED IN THE GUEST HOUSE FREEZER—

 

WHICH  ALSO CONTAINS  5 GALLONS OF STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM THAT NO ONE AT  DOGFEST ATE.—

THERE IS ONLY 2 OF WHAT MATTERS IN THAT BOAT.

 WHATA MAIL CALL--  CINDY ( ALWAYS LIVELY). -- BETSY'S HIP FLASK( BETSY -- OF SCARLOTT FAME....FOR "THE HUNT" TODAY)-- AND WILSON....

***** NO TIME TO PROOF READ--- GOOD LUCK****

MAIL CALL   STARTED. OFF WELL ENOUGH.. CINDY AND MATT WITH NORMAL QUESTIONS ETC... THEN THE DOOR WAS FLUNG OPEN  AND 

IN BOUNCED WANDA, WILSON , AND JANINE...  ON A DESPARATE MISSION TO FIND BETSY'S HIP FLASK--IT IS A VERY SMALL. 4" X  5"

STERLING SILVER-- LEATHER COVERED... CURVED TO FIT IN YOUR BACK POCKET WHEN YOU. RIDE IN FORMAL OCASSIONS... THANKSGIVING DAY IS ONE OF THOSE OCQSSIONS..... APPARENTLY THAT  FLASK WAS CRITICAL.. LAST I KNEW THERE WERNT ENOUGH HORSES TO GO AROUND AND JANINE WQS GOING TO RIDE TAXI...  BUT BETSY NEEDED THAT FLASK....  WHY IT GOT LEFT HERE WAS CONFUSING... AS I AM THE  ONLY ONE.... EXCEPT MAYBE FAMILY ....ALLOWED TO DRINK ON THE PROPERTY.  THE FLASK WS FOUND..IN MY "LIQUOR CLOSET". -- AN OLD REFRIGERATOR USED TO STORE LIGHT BULBS...

A BEAUTIFLU FLASK---BETTER THAN  ANY STAINLESS STEEL ONE I EVER OWNED-- SO JANINE SHOVED IT IN HER BACK POCKET---- IT FIT PERFECTLY---AND SHE TURNED TO THE NEXT PROBLEM... WILSON....

I REALLY NEED TO HAVE   DD   PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION TO THIS PART WHICH COULD ALSO BE LABELED "NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT SEE..."

I GAVE MY WORD T O THE WOMAN IN FLORIDA WHO SOLD US TEH PAIR OF LOVELY YOUNG LADIES--- THAT WE WOULD TAKE THE BEST OF CARE FOR HER TWO PUPS......WHICH WERE CAREFULLY RAISED-- AS WE DO ALL OUR DOGS.... USUALLY......  AND WE STARTED THEM IN THE KITCHEN-- LIFE WAS GOOD....

WE ALREADY HAD WILSON.. A FEW WEEKS OLDER-- A. MALE---  ONLY SLIGHTLY BIGGER THEN THE "2 GIRLS" - SO AT ONE POINT IT WAS DECIDED WE SHOULD PUT THEM IN TOGETHER... SOMEWHAT THE SAME AS WE USUALLY DID WITH OTHER PUPS.... MIX THEM IN THE KITCHEN THEN GRADUATE THEM TO THE #10 KENNEL IN THE BARN... WORKED WELL.....

FIRST THING WILSON DID WAS TO CHARGE TEH DARKER OF THE 2 PUPS- KNOCKING HER OVER AND  STANDING OVER HER LIKE TH CONQUERING   HERO.... ..A RELATIVELY NORMAL PUPPY BEHAVIOR-- NOT TO WORRY...- I CAUSED HIM TO BE LEFT IN THAT CONFIGURATION. 2 GIRLS.  AND HIMSELF..   FOR A WEEK... FINALLY REALIZING... THIS WAS NOT WORKING...  INSTEAD OF TURNING HIM INTO A PLEASENT WELL BEHAVED DOG LIKE TEH GIRLS, HE WAS MAKING THEM NEUROTIC BY CONSTANTLY SITTING ON THEIR HEADS  AND BITING THEM... I BROKE UP ONE OFF THE BITING EPISODES.  BY HAND... WHICH GOT BITTEN -- AND FILMED INTO AN UPROAR--WILSON LEFT THE KITCHEN AND WENT INTO THE "SUNROOM" TO FOLLOW TEH OTHER PUP.. AND PROCEEDED TO BITE. HER...  I GAVE HM A 4 FINGER SLAP ON HIS REAR-- THE ONLY THING I COULD QUICKLY REACH.... AND BROKE THAT UP--- REALIZING ... FOR THE PROTETION OR THE 2 FEMALES, HE NEEDED TO GO TO THE BARN. FOR OTHER COMPANY.-- AND TEH CONVERSATION TURNED TO  ??WHO??   BUT BIGGER  AND MORE SECURE.

THAT DIDN'T WORK TO WELL EITHER..  SO WANDA ( OUR RESIDENT JACK RUSSELL... TOUGH GAL...). WAS  CALLED  TO DUTY--  SMALLER, YES,  BUT ONE TOUGH GAL WHO WOULD PUT HIM IN HIS PLACE...  WHICH SHE DID, TIL SHE GOT TIRED AND JANINE TOOK HER/THEM  HOME... FOR ONE  VERY ACTIVE NIGHT ENDING UP WITH WILSON IN   A CRATE TOO SMALL FOR HIM BUT SHE NEEDED TO GET SOME SLEEP... SHE DOES HAVE A N ORMAL JOB...

NEXT NIGHT MATT DECIDE T LET HIS DOG "ACE"  HAVE A GO AT TRAINING WILSON... AND HE DID WELL----FOR A FEW OURS WHEN JANINE TOOK HIM BAC K

KEEPING HIM FOR THE DAY AND APPEARING AT MAIL CALL TO ANNOUNCE "HE'S A PERFECTLY SMART DOG". 

I NEVER QUESTIONED HIS "IQ"-- HE IS A VERY  BRIGHT DOG.... HE ALSO CAUSED A BLEEDING HOLE IN MY HAND AND A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT SEEING THE EFFECT HE WAS HAVING ON  2 SUPER PUPS.

JANINE TOOK OFF HIS JACKET.. AND HE MADE A BEELINE FOR THE GATE TO THE KITCHEN...  RAN IN... CHASED TEH 2 GIRLS OUT OF THEIR BED AND LLAY DOWN ALL COMFY LIKE...  EVERY ONE IN THE ROOM SWOONED OVER WHAT A SMART DOG --  HE OPENED THE GATE QAND GOT WHAT HE WANTED.. HOW COULD I POSSIBLY QUESTION HIS ABILITY-- HE OPENED THE GATE !!

NOT ONE PERSON IN THE ROOM... AND PROBALBY ALL THOSE ON CAMERA....  EVER NOTICED-- THE 2 GIRLS  HAD GONE AS FAR FROM HIM AS THEY COULD AND WERE "HIDING" OVER BY THE SINK-   AFRAID TO TRY AND GET THEIR BED BACK...

I SAW THAT AS A THREAT TO 2 DOGS I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE PROTECTING. SO I RAISED MY VOICE. .... AS I AM PRONE TO DO..... SOMETH ING ABOUT "GET THAT  DOG OUT OF THERE." SO JANINE PICKED HIM UP GOING BACK THRU THE GATE WHILE QUIETLY SAYING "STOP BITING ME"--- ***** WHICH I DID HEAR****

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SOLUTION TO ALL THIS????

I FEEL I DO. HAVE SOME RESPONSIBILITY TO FIND A GOOD HOME FOR WILSON. - AND WE - ALONG WITH JANINE AND MATT-- WHO HAVE DOGS WHO CAN WORK WITH  WILSON. - WILL GET HI MTRAINED TO AN ACEPTABLE DEGREE AND FIND HIM A MATCHING HOME... AS A PET.

AS BEST I CAN, I HAVE FORBID  HAVING HIM IN A SMALL SPACE ( LIKE KENNEL) WITH ANY OF OUR USUAL DOGS DESTINED TO BECOME SERVICE DOGS. HE IS FAR TOO DISRUPTIVE... AND ALTHO WE WILL  WORK WITH  HIM. TIL HE FINDS A HOME.... MAYBE EVEN JANINE OR MATT--- WHO KNOWS....HE IS SO BRIGHT, HE WILL BE GOOD FOR SOMETHING....  BUT THAT QUICK JUMPY SNAP AND BITE, IS GREAT FOR CHASING FREESBEES.... BUT IS NOT SOMETHING WE CAN USE IN A SERVICE DOG.  

I.  MUST NOW GO AND GET WILSON FROM JANINE.. WHO I THINK IS RIDING IN THE HUNT TODAY--- NOT ON TAXI BUT SOME OTHER HORSE YET TO BE DISCOVERED....  AND HEAVEN FORBID...SHE HAS NO FLASK.  AT LEAST THAT I KNOW OF.

nov 24 2021

 holidays are always disruptive.. and this is no exception---  from repurposing the icu building -to having linda leave  while all these revisions are considered....and implemented.

Plan being considered is to have the icu  change from my.   origional intention of  overflow  dorm for visiting cp's.    to  lynns  center of  daily action  to the SDP office daily activities including the doggie bag ..  which is a huge operation in itself. requiring linda and  a lot of  file  storage..  

President Biden made a comment about. compainies spending more on research and developenent.. so SDP will be applying for a government grant for that purpose.. and the guest house and main house will remain the  meeting   center for board,  visiting cp's--- fundraising   and recipients--

 officially R&D... if big corporations can... so can we.....

i can only report as progress is made.... i know we have a board meeting next week....  ann is our officia grant writer....  she speaks 7 languages and she can spell in every one of them.

and as the   vaccinated cp's are again welcome t o spend a few days  at crazy acres....on an as available basis--  the only change there is teh  shuttle bus to peabody is no more... and i have heard rumors aBOUT  AIRPORT SHUTTLE TO SALSBURY--- A FEW M ILES UP THE ROAD   

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NOW BARBARA.  AS IN CP BARBARA..... iN HEARING MYCPAP MACHINE WaS BROKEN, SUGGESTED I FOOL WITH THE INNOGEN OXYGEN PRDUCING MACHINE.....

I – FOR SOME REASON OR ANOTHER—OWN 2 INNOGEN – PORTABLE O2 MACHINES...  ALSO ON EBQAY. --- AT 3 FOR $10. ( LONG AGO)  I BOUGHT THE FUNNY FINGER O2 sensors and I checked my $3 FINGER TESTOR AGAINST TH EONE IN THE ER ONE DAY—IT WAS  THE SAME NUMBER OF SATURQATION...( RIGHT--- EITHER BORHT RIGHT OR BOTH WRONG) WHATEVER.. My oxygen level has always been one or two numbers around 92 and I didn't really think anything about it every once in a while in the ER they would ask me to take another breath or two and it would pop up and they'd go away without saying anything so I never really paid any attention 

now Barbara-- ----camera person Barbara ------said that hers is always over 95 and if it's below 95 it's a problem ----well I've never been to 95 so somewhere here there was something wrong the only slightly related oxygen thing I know is that some medical publication in which I had some faith which means it was probably the jma said that the random use of oxygen was not a good idea -----you just didn't use oxygen Willy nilly ---so I just never did until Barber comes along with us it ought to be 95 so in the middle of the night with nothing to do I got out the inergen ah my finger tester and I found that if I put that oxygen on my oxygen level was 95 to 98 and if I took it off it was 92 to 94 I know it has been as low as 89 but it's one of those times when I have got the ability to discover the correct information and then don't know what the hell to do about it so there in the middle of the night I put on the oxygen and my oxygen level was 9798 as long as I had that thing on my nose take it off and I was 9394 that's all I have for fact now I can't see me at the moment walking around with that engine strapped to my back but it might come to that if I find out or discover that one of my problems with stamina even climbing one flight of stairs could possibly be my oxygen level --------I don't know I never went to medical school 

If any of you with medical background (and I know we have many nurses here have any input as to the in as to wearing one of those oxygen level things).    I do know it puts out the oxygen at level 2 which I've heard of before in my first responder course and that was sort of the normal level----- if you have any information on that I would I would like to know and then I will also pass around for this learning process

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hello ladies 

Capri is doing great. She is still eating very well although has her fussy days. A little shredded cheese mixed in every now and then keeps her very happy. Her appetite has definitely decreased a bit this week, but we are making sure she is getting what she needs. She is starting to take more downtime and rest, her tiny waste is starting to thicken a bit, she is extra clingy with me and those milk glands have not gone down since her last heat… some have been getting more pronounced. On my rough calculation she is at about day 25 from the first tie with Richard- so possibly 3 weeks?  I would say all signs are pointing to babies on board!

Just wanted to check in and give you my observations. I will also bring her by the farm to sat hello later this week after thanksgiving, so you can see for yourselves and put eyes on her.

If there is anything special you would like me to be doing for her in preparations - please just let me know.

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jen.....re the moneky fists-- teh roll of 720 feet has arrived. you could  now take my smaller roll. -- or whatever... but we have it;l

nov 23 2021

 i wish i could make thie s funny story-- it is nearly one... but..........  re: mommy dogs and puppy dpgs...

As mommy dogs age and get less interested in nursing a bunch of children---- they're inclined to wander around and these puppies ----now being more active--- have a way of running in front of mother so they can run around the front legs and get a hold of a faucet.    and get something to drink---- it's a very very common practice among puppies---- the problem is that instinct does stay with them  through their juvenile years and can be a problem in situations like running next to a bicycle or car  or golf cart... it is very annoying ---there's not a thing you can do about it..  except be careful and watch for it.

 

 in the process of training these service dogs we do a lot of walking around in general public with these dogs and I know because it's happened to me that on occasion one will make a swift turn and get right in front of me.   just like it used to with mommy and the next 30 seconds or so becomes a confusion of four legs two legs leashes and arms flailing...  --- as you try and maintain your balance and not step on or  fall down at all ...  been there done that   many times.....

 

Yesterday which would have been Monday---    I got a phone call from someone who had seen one of our trainers with one of our dogs and she said she thought the dog was being  shoved with the trainer's knees.. and the dog was very confused. ---- well I certainly am glad to have people call me if something like this does happen ----we certainly don't want any abusive training procedures and I'm sure we don't have any..... I know this trainer.  and she I'm sure would not do anything like that in an evil way -------however if that dog turned in front of her I can just see it now arms flailing ----dog confused ---knees – feet. all over the place trying not to step on the dog I've been there done that and it certainly does look strange but things like that do happen.    What is so unfortunate is that to the uninitiated general public anything unusual is presumed to be abusive ------when in fact in her case it could simply be a case of trying to stay on her own two feet.  it certainly is confusing to the dog and sometimes takes quite a few minutes for the dog to settle down again..  although we don't plan on tripping and falling, we actually do plan on tripping and falling because most of these dogs are going to be with people who on occasion fall ---   so the dog has to first learn not to be shocked and then learn to usually lie down and help the person up.. and then eventually as the person and dog worked together for a long time the dog can begin to anticipate some. of these falls.. so being confused at the moment.. is not a terrible thing.  and it.  does work into our training program without any great hoopla.

 

one thing we spend a lot of time on are stairs...   I personally prefer to train in the City Hall in Georgetown MA it has a situation of maybe 6 stairs at the platform and turned around and six stares at a platform and turn around and I have trained  many dogs in that building------ now the trainer seemed to prefer the hotel in Danvers which.    has carpeted staircases whereas the City Hall in Georgetown   has wooden.  you have only to watch some of our dogs ease  a partner  down a flight of stairs one step at a time to realize it's time well spent working on stairs..

 

to watch George.  is video on my machine ---     amazing  bella down the stairs at the Museum of Fine Arts or wherever it was.  1 one step at a time and when she hesitates with one foot in the air so does George.  and he doesn't move until she lowers the foot to the next step

 

we have a lot of stories pretty much exactly like that including the latest one bout an older woman whose name I won't mention because she wouldn't like the older part I'm sure she's younger than me -----started down a flight of stairs and began to pitch forward and lose her balance that dog jumped in front of her and stopped her fall 100% probably saving a lot of the rest of  her life----- it happens----   it happens so often that we've stopped writing it down----- these dogs are big and they do amazing things none of which could be taught -----they have to be by  by their general instinct and the fact that they're really in tune with their  partners.

 

that still doesn't stop me from being a nervous wreck every time I see one of them coming down a flight of stairs where there is no handrail and just the dog------I say just the dog but so far so good.      I'm sure at some point accidents will happen but so far so good

 

I have to add.  add -----accidents will happen because they will.......I'm amazed at how lately the news  will be exploited.... to their own benefit for new excitement---  if it if it bleeds it leads--  and if they  can distort anything to make it slightly juicier then so be it.. it's the nature of the news since 1900--------- it's just worse now because of the Internet and the fact we have no editor to check and make sure the truth of any story

 

Th comical part is.... if there is no really juicy bit of news.   Even that can be made to lead by implying “they’re hiding it”..

nov 22 2021

  am really going. to have to joint this neighborhood chat thing--    there are college kids there looking for odd hour jobs over the holiday..  boy could we use them..   To us,,,, 

holidqays- are not the wonderful cheerfull  norman rockwell settings-- the family arguement over thanksgiving dinner is a classic-- camera mark said lst year he used up 2 vials of puppy breath so his family didn't argue..  we... gwen janine and i ,, did nbot have enough time to get into an arguement with our family.....

as the owner of a mass of mini donkeys ... with antlers and a red wagon,...  these hollidays have always been the means s to pay the  spring tuition bills for my 2 children.... we worked.

It does sound like such fun the harness up 8 little donkeys and get their antlers all tide on straight to the top of their heads and they wander around  a hotel ballrooms or parades or whateve---- but let me tell you to this day if I get out the set of bells that went on the lead team of donkeys ----I guarantee you my children will run a half a mile ---their lovely cheerful bells but not when you have to listen to them all the time and my harness was absolutely beautiful ----it was better than coach leather ----it was lovely thing ( it was also $9000 from Toronto )   but it was equipped with a set of chimes bell chimes for the front pair and that noise became so offensive it was hysterical we get the whole hitch  of the whole rig put together before we screwed on those damn bells t.

here were two-- n   alot of.... there were a lot of lot of interesting stories with this------ we did it for years ----but the worst situation I was ever in was in Haverhill MA ---where I was to harness at the police station and then walked straight ahead down into the center of town with Santa Claus in the sleigh with me------ by the way most Santa clauses are slightly inebriated------ I had a police cruiser in front of me and we rode I drove down into the centre of town with the eight donkeys all looking cheerful and lovely and when the crowd saw Santa Claus they came running for this this bunch of donkeys ----   and they packed themselves in around and underneath the cart------ if those donkeys had taken one step forward we would have had a very nasty accident ----  but go donkeys were terrified so they stood shock still which is one reason that donkeys are absolutely wonderful compared to  o horses you could never ever have done the things with horses that I have done with donkeys and that that parade in Haverhill was one of them -----because we couldn't move for the best part of an hour as these kids with oh they're all packed in between the between the donkeys in front of the under the donkeys ------under the carriage and Santa and I just sat there the added complication of Christmas with the donkeys is that those damnable candy canes -------donkeys are addicted to and absolutely adore peppermint and those candy canes that they give out at Christmas are the same size as children's fingers so I'm terrified that the donkey is going to get ahold of one of those fingers and think it's a candy cane and try bite it off this this is the problems that I live with on a daily basis -----some screwball thing after another-------this is one reason why we use frying pans around here because I'm afraid close donkeys and horses getting fingers confused with carrots and things we feed out of the frying pans -----if I don't have a frying pan what I do with a treat that I'm giving a donkey is to start rubbing it between their eyes and come straight down in their nose and poke it in their mouth so that they don't reach for the for the candy cane and get a finger of his dead at any rate we sat there in Haverhill for a long time and finally just wandered off

 

 the second most notorious job was at the 4th floor. ballroom of the Westin hotel-We got the donkey goal hitched down in the loading docks and by peace mail shuffled them up the freight elevator till the 4th floor to the food holding area ------very closely related to the kitchen----- where we hitched  them all back up in a string and i got Santa Claus in the wagon with    me and made.  the left turn around the red and white strawberry shortcakes into the ballroom where Santa jumped off and the crowd wandered off with him and I went straight ahead out the ballroom to.  the elevator area where Janine had four of her BU students friends in waiting elevators we took two donkeys per elevator and by the time they went down the four floors their BU students had to undress the donkeys just leaving the harness on the floor so that the donkeys were totally naked Janine was down at the bottom I was coming down with the donkeys and we took those naked donkeys without a *strap  on  them  out the front door onto ---I think it's Huntington Ave ------made a left turn and ran down with the traffic and hit the traffic lights and things straight ahead into the prudential tower parking lot where they had the freight elevator waiting for the donkeys so Janine and the eight donkeys got on the freight elevator and went up to the ballroom where there was some sort of democratic party in the  bar ------she got off with the eight donks and I know what she did but any rate I went back and got the trailer -------pulled into the parking lot just to have her coming down again and put them.  on the trailer came home I think it paid $4500 but it was a it took some planning to get that job done 

at any rate well there's one more holida -y. actually alot more holiday stories... but,,,,

the job in North Andover outside at some industrial complex was Santa's village where they had the merry go round from Fiesta shows and a lot of hot chocolate and cookies and us santa'sw farm...we did that Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday every Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday between Thanksgiving and Christmas regardless of the weather---- there was one night where dida  and I we're huddled in a shed which was supposedly the Manger scene try to stay warm.   and somebody reported us to

the police as homeless.... little did they know that we were just trying to stay warm---- it was always fun and ---n o..it was not fun---- it was a job it was a job Thanksgiving to Christmas

 

consequently I have never done Christmas presents or worry too much about the normal things that people do at Christmas because to me Christmas was---??? have I got air the tires and ??? we got the harness ---where's the wagon is everybody healthy etc etc--- but that's behind us now 

and As for the the current conversation oh dear.......    I forgot about this one we did parades Oh my word we did parades luckily luckily this happened here one summer......one  we had visitors here at the farm came just look at the donkeys etc And they were running around flat field everybody's fine and they all ran in the door into the arena and weenie ----one of my steadiest strongest donkeys who pulled right next to the wagon ---just keelled over dead---- I could not believe it---- it's the only time it's ever happened to me but ever since that happened I'm always very careful to make sure we have a tarp with us because you just never know with animals what's going to happen and I was very glad to get out of the business of running around hotel ballrooms before we had the added complication of anybody dropping dead in the middle of the project.. 

 experience is what you get from bad experiences -----I don't know who said that but boy it's right

on a more cheerful topic.... my monkeyfist student.  sent a photo to prove he is o his way.