mar 31 22

editor john did get my email in th e news yesterday------it was all the perrils we were dealing with and why i forgot to send an article...

it was pretty good.. explaining why i forgot to send the article-- basically because my verbal instructions to alexa the dog got all screwed

 up with dictated instructions to the alexa the computer.....which. was blaring jesus christ superstar because of a name i had called alexa. ----- such is crazy acres...

moving on with our second car to be devoured by rats... this time the rav 4 that was parked in front of the house for a few days while they

 explained to me that my sequpia was "totalled" ( was it $27,000?)with only 55,000 miles on it. this time $17,000 because it would be too expensive to fix ($9000)

pretty soon my insurance company will get. upset.. we have 3 more toyotas. so far uneffected... and parked further from the neighbor's questionable house...

.. which just might be the main source of these rats.

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 I am carrying moria around with me trying to firure out what and why she fought with 2 other dogs.... most dogs that  I have known that are truly aggressive to other dogs  have a prey drive which is easily identified....—I do not see any of that in her—that does not eliminate the fact that she was ... I am told was...the instigator of the last 2 dog arguments...  I wish I had seen the start of them...because,,,,,,,,,

 I put her out in “A” field----all by herself- and she immediately took a left turn and got as far away from the 2 barking dogs on her right... and would not come back til I got a leash on her....and then she tiptoed....

Now... the trainers who have had  her out say that she clings to their leg when   they go by another dog.. hmmmm.. that matches what I have seen too...

She has been kenneled next to one of the most vociferous dogs and I wonder........ a bltch got the name somehow.....

I am well aware  of all the things people say about aggressive dogs-..so please spare me... I am also aware that mismanagement is often the reason for a lot of dogs being called aggressive--  so in spite of the fact that apparently she was the attacker in the last go round,,  I have to see more before I can try and figure out why.—

 

Then we can argue—why. If we so carefully never breed aggressive dogs—and if it is genetic. Where do they come from?—into the puzzle you must add a breeding female is as bad as a breeding male... in the wolf world only the dominant pairs are allowed to breed...  moria is not spayed—she is /was to be one of my dogs I had hoped to breed—now that is on hold...  but I am not ready to spay her yet,...

 

So before you get too hard on her.. explain to me how 4 dogs ended up   all stuffed in. the small area in the food prep  room.  That was a pretty good fight too... lotsa stitches... and I am sure it was just an accident and certainly not any dog’s fault.. a simple unlatched door could have caused that....

 

We allow our dogs as much freedom as possible in their growing years – and there are times we are not reading the signs right

 Heck we would have no chewed up dogs at all if we raised them all. in crates....

But.... as dangerous as it is... I taught my children to ride bicycles and one was for a while a bike messenger. Who too often had to go to the funeral of one of her co- messengers...  

 mar 30 2022

i can not imagine... and i don't think enough of us do.... i see pictures of bombed out houses in wherever 

they happen to be dropping bombs at the moment... ands i wonder how in the rubble of all that bricks and 

mortar, that the plumbing would still deliver a nice cool refreshing glass of water... that we so casually

 expect from our system.   and more than that.. how about all those people  we decided were essential ..

 like the guy driving the truck from the farm to the store with the lettuce... or the guy putting it all on the shelves...

i nearly had this. vision  a month or two ago in market basket-- there were no frozen peas...

.good ole US of A...   I HAD NEVER HAD THAT EXPERIENCE BEFORE.  spoiled that i was..........NO PEAS????

There you have people wondering  how to get the very basic  water and roof...

 where do you start amid all that rubble to get what you know you ... and your child are going to  need in the next 4 hours ---a simple drink of water.??

 it is not "well i will try again tomorrow"- ok..right now... no more water from the system.  for 2 days.

have at it... use up the keruig will be the first shock...go ahead and flush once... now what do you do? 

? ask your neighbor?  right... and why should they part with a cup full? 

that is too drastic to comprehend... so let me bring up a couple---

detroit... did i hear we still have not solved that mess of lead pipes? 

Arabians  were shipping hay from california to thier prize horses because they did not have enough water to grow their own..

... and california decided they did not wish to continue that because  the wine country needed it...

the colorado river never gets to the ocean before it goes thru someone's gut....? really?  i dunno but i would not doubt it

what are the plans to drain some of the great lakes,.. and what does canada think about  that? 

i don't even want to think about sabotage and vulnerability  of cities like new york??? or the computer system that runs it...

i can --once in my life---remember saying "why would any company spend money on gas to transport water around?"

obviously before poland springs.

 mar 29 2022

we just started our new book.. "first day with lynn on vacation."   both donna and judy came in early because

 the were sure that  sara-beth would be tearing her hair...... she has made it thru th e night     but allow me.....

.Reality.... I will give you reality..... try this...dictation special....

 

As of mail call last night...  We had post surgical during no I got surgical what's the name in there what's her name Bridget so I'll start that again ------let me start this again and there are five people here also talking so let's see if you can keep it straight-------How did you get with what happened what are we doing I had it she broke out she broke out I have black leash tide to the table as of mail call last night we had Bridget in the sunroom as a post surgical patient.  with with her tail minus the bandage that was supposed to be there at that point yeah somebody came in Haley and said she was about to pick up Mariah sister who had been in a fight that got started in the feed room because two doors we're not clicked shut and four dogs in that one little room regardless of who they are they're gonna push on each other and somethings gonna start well something did start what's Mariah sister name Alexa Alexa.. solexa had some severe lacerations but every time we talk about it that strange machine connected to this computer would think we were talking to it and would therefore start on some tirade completely unrelated to the lacerations on Alexa----we also had while wew00.jarky    with massive loose stool once called projectile diarrhea who had already been to the veterinary office---   actually bianca with her 7 pups was in the kitchen,,,,   I sent up a bag of his loose stool first and they said no they wanted to see the dog so we sent the dog up to Newburyport..  don't forget what's mother's name oh who's Which mother dog one in the kitchen little puppies Bianca I look careful what you say it's all getting put in here  sandyes OK with Bentley in my bedroom sizzle on my bed and Germany on the mat on the floor that completes the situation which sara-beth had to deal with overnigt yeah well broke OK after you take her meds recent yeah this bill was not a great idea last night yeah it's it worked last night well last night she was sedated she's not anymore that's a nice dog you should stay put wait the medical sheet you just made it nobody taught me how I just did it on the sheet I know but now I know After getting bitten everythingwhere they are that's I don't think it will but in a systemOK

 

I just wanted to try and count the number of dogs that were here last night so----mine  4 then that -- the laceration - Yeah the tail  mom +   For a total of 16 dogs is that right for 5 6 7 and nine is someday to 16 I think we only had 16 dogs last night right 1 account 16

this house is very adaptable with that chimney in the middle you can keep coming off the chimney with x-pens oh I love and we ended up with 5 separate compartments right here on the first floor where sarabeth could sit and watch them all at once oh wait a minute not 16 I forgot the eight on the back porch backward so that another eight so there's 24 OK so there's 24 dogs in the house one with massive diarrhea the other with the tail you have to keep wrapped and things like that and they all made it God bless sarabeth...  well it made it so comical was every time we yelled at   oh wait yeah I need you to write hey this is gonna be wait a minute everybody come in who stay right there lucky right here right here right there little this will come up here on the bed get on the bed get on the bed simple sizzle get up there this one first this one give and then over there come over here this is otherwise you're right right click I'm gonna get this stuff and I'll be right there So they have move the puppy to the condo I can't hear good that was there that yeah no we have to move our sofa into the kitchen you're very good damn it Gemini Gemini Gemini I don't want you in that fight they're all done she makes sizzle go like you wait a minute ago you wait he went before the 8th I know I'll take river so it was warm soupy  for the swam p larkey has soft poop  almost a cylinder -----matt is here. Hi Matt I bet you drove overnight yes you better go take a nap it I ll see you when you wake up

 

so there you have this morning at least so far..

 mar 28 2022

i am sorry, i can not put the daily doggie in print .

if it was not so. serious it would be funny

we have been mandated to replace the doors 

we were mandated to put on not even a year ago.

dc

 mar 27 2022

yesterday was certainly  more lively than we planned... moira got in a fight with percy.   not sure how or why they got together.. 

but  moria earned herself a day with me and i will  try and figure her out a bit. is she truly agressive , or does she just not know

she is not the biggest and strongest dog in this dog park.... ? does.  she know  "whoa?"   sounds like maybe that word is not in her vocabulary... yet,.

critical word for  everyone....i even stop if anyone yells whoa....  maybe i mentally don't stop... but generally my feet do.

larkey and jiminey had a terrifying tussle at dinner- totally my fault... no one was hurt, but cindy was in the middle and weighs about half what they do.

that was a case of setting up a perfect place to have a mess-- my fault-you can feed 600 pounds of great danes in a small space of 4 x 8...  

but you must carefully control the energy at the time.. when i set that up long ago when they weighed 80 pounds..

 there was a location for each dog determined ahead of time... get them there and tell them to stay until released when food id ready.

letting them decide where they want to be as bowls come out is a bad idea.. 

 it is so much better to tell the dogs what is exp[ected of them instead of letting them guess.

indecision is a bad thing----       they nearly knocked cindy over just tussling over the last pellet of food.

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there will  probably be be a great uproar about quarentine..when all are vaccinated - and it was a dog fight...  

this is why histtorically i have tried to avoid these things...  using whatever means available to me....

one person did have skin broken and went for an ER  check up and maybe tetanus...

 i don't know--  but it will be enough to set the officials in motion.

before everyone gets all excited.....  remember chaos bit everyone one the property several times..it was expected of her.

please researve judgement until the authorities have their fill..

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on purely the excitement level ... it might be a bad time to add some rat terriers... better get control over what we have at the moment...

i will go back to "rental". ---  i have heard... the recored is 2500 rats in one day with 6 dogs... 

  i think we are way down....it is also time  for the rats to go back into the forest for the summer....

i think someone decided the rats have a comfort level  of 60 to 80 degrees....  

i thank everyone for sending all the free rat  terrior  ads... i am reading them ..but nothing has clicked yet...

whoops i forgot i was writing this...

 mar 26 2022

i know i have repeated ... many times over the past 40 years of being a farmer in ipswich. ... what my mother told me at the  tender age of about 10------ if a policeman... with a gun... tells you to do something...  like "stop" ----- you do exactly that and do not argue at that point. however... now.. with a few years on me, i also think if you see something you consider wrong, you have an obligation to bring that to the attention of anyone  who is supposed to be  keeping  our laws adhered to by all.  carrying a gun  does give the gun toter a certain amount of authority of the immediate type. but the ultimate authority belongs only to the judicial system we have put in place... if a police person .. who quite correctly  carries a gun.. were to give me a speeding ticket when in fact i was parked for the past hour in one spot. i would smile and say thank you... while thinking, you ##$%^&*&^%$#$%^ i will straighten this out later... 

question now is how soon does later come.  i do not think there is an expiration date.

there is a long article about the slaughter of horses in the  albany new york times union. sunday march 6th which addresses at legnth  mostly. the problem of the retired race horse .. horse racing is at best dreadful. it is driven by betting -- and when you come down to it...people who are into betting would bet on cockroaches if anyone got that going. people in the united states consider horses companion animals.. which does not deal with the fact that they are extremely expensive to maintain.   even if you have one that  dies in you back yard of old age.... getting rid of the 1000 pound bulk is getting expensive also...- the guy who picks them up  here- was.. i think $650 last time-- he does 4 or 5  a day---( Big truck) and complained that maine was getting fussy about land fills.

there is a practical problem.... 

temple gardian ????  is not quite her name---  i may have some details wrong ,,, but a brilliant woman-- with adhd? who took on and re designed the beef slaughtering in this counrty for . the benefit of the animals.her  observations are sorely needed here....

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 brigiet had a happy tail--- wagging pulverized the end of it so it bled all over everything and person... to the point that with a further big bang she really needed to have the end amputated.. and is now the kitchen... which means to keep the peace, 3 dogs... mom siz and 2 pups jiminey. and lachy mus squeeze onto the soffa-- not impossible but cozy...

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saturday and tuesfday.  are lynn's days off--- that is a bad thing.  i think she should be working at least 9 days a week....  there is no end  to the chores around here.... which she seems to be handling very well...

and she is so cheerful.( actually except for the time i heard she was icefishing, she does work the remaqining 2 days anyway. ).

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dogfest is taking alot of time.... i would love to know what people want to do when they come here for the 2 days... what are the favorite things? i love it when people pick up a job they thhink needs doing and just do it  like ---- i remember the  laughter at the painting of the barn purple and all the advice given in the painting of the laundry...and simonizing of the tractor...and what is necessary for food ( we never finished that huge beautiful cake.)  --- we need input--- we will have these 2 liters of an age when you can play with them....

 mar 25 2022

 now this is serious... 

a very long time ago-- i can even tell you where i was standing...( north of haverhill)  i saw a "jog cart" for sale --- that is a 2 bike wheel type  trotting horse racing cart...  it was during my parade phase of  child rearing....when parades were paying good money to have animals in their parade-- and we had them -- i don't know what i intended to do with the jog cart, but i wanted one- here was one for sale. $225 and i just plain did not have $225 even if it was to make money with the object.  the fact that i still feel the pain of not being able to  buy that cart is significant....

so here i am now.... with 2 of them... one janine  tried to throw away- it is in a pile behind the arena....- and all it has are flat tires....dammnnnnit i am not throwing that jog cart away... even tho i don't have a clue why not.  to be continued....

the second jog cart became the front section of the "half fast fire department".  which pulled by donkey mary involved a 20' ladder and the tiller wheel with either earlene or a stuffed bear riding the tiller... it was very popular that year.....

the continuation. why not throw out?? so now i have 2 that need  only air and paint.... and i do have 2 perfectly beautiful black horses that  may have come from the amish world of driving.-- in my history  i would have been thrilled to have that amt of "given" for any paradee..... except one issue stops me cold.   those 2 horses came from the auction world.... why did someone give them up?

welllllllll.. there is one hidden thing that makes a driving horse useless... "she has run".   once they have run away with a cart, they will again. at the most inopportunistic time..... the reason horses wear blinders is so they can not see the carriage they are dragging behind them... if they get a glimse of the carriage they move forward and they see that the carriage. comes right behind them so they decide it is chasing them so they bolt forward and the faster they  go the closer it seems to chase  which becomes a life threatening race  often killing themselves and any people riding in the carriage or standing in their way......

 this situation is often repeated with dogs... particularly when sonne one ties a grocery  bag to the leash handle-- and then drops it.--- the bag then becomes a strange object flipping around at the heels of the dog... and you get the same response... "run it is going to bite."  there was an accident in a fall river parade where an older.. experienced team of draft horses got running and tried to go up and over a p ick up truck killing themselves and 2 people in the truck.  ther was another ?boston? where s spectator came along while the driver was waterhing his horses with a bucket.. and some well meaning animal person siad" you should take off the bridle so they can drink better " it looked like a simple request....and when he did the horse saw that carriage, and took one step.. it followed him. so he ran.. you... no one i know of... can stop a horse in that panic run state....-so even if it is slightly comical to see matt try and stay on a horse that is bucking... that is a very minor situation compaered to one terrified of what is behind them.

 there are those... i was once one of them..."oh i can work it out of my horse... she is so resaonable i can do it."  .. well i could not-- and she was saved only by getting the 2 wheeled car stuck between 2 trees..breaking axle, wheels and harness. but she lived.  this is why when janine buys a horse at auction.. she pays matt to get on him and see i f he can get the norse to show any strange signs of misbehaving...."flying back" is another wierd thing horses can do...  when tied to a post/tree/ whatever. most horses will. "respect the rope..." and just stand around... but  then there is the oddball... who will stand very quietly if you drop the tie rope on the gground. but will become insane if you tie the rope  to a wall or tree.... trying desparately to back away from this thing that is tied to his head....

that is 2 life saving tips from someone who. has been there.... and dogs will sometimes show that panic and run if they think something is chasing them. 

 not always... but it is that "sometimes" that could kill you.

 MAR 24 22

BENTLEY IS NOT THE MOST MOBILE IN THE WORLD.... HOWEVER... IT IS A LITTLE SELECTIVE

 HE DID A BIT OF VOCALIZING-- NOT REALLY BARKING  BUT "TALKING". AND I THOUGHT HE WANTED TO GO OUT...

WITH DIFFICULTY I GOT HIM ON HIS FEET AND  HE TURNED AROUND AND LAY DDOWN AGAIN..

 I NOTICED BUT KEPT COMPUTERING.. 2 MIN LATER HE GOT UP AND CHANGED BEDS WITHOUT DIFFICULTY..

I ALSO NOTICED HE POPS UP AT 4:00 FOR SUPPERTIME... AND CAN MANAGE OUTDOORS AT THAT POINT. 

HE HAS THE BIGGEST BLADDER KNOWN TO DOGDOM.....  .. SO HE CAME BACK IN ... WITH LESS TROUBLE THAN USUAL

GOT IN BED AND BEGAN THE GRUMBLING  - I THOUGHT MAYBE WATER WOULD DETER HIM AND OFFERED.  HIM A SMALL DISH.. 

HE DRANK AND DRANK,,  ACTUALLY 2 SMALL BOTTLES WORTH .

SO... HE HAS HIS VERY SEVERE PROBLEMS-- HIS WEIGHT BEING  THE WORST OF IT.. BUT HE CAN STILL WALK

GETTING UP OFF THE SOFT MATTRESS CAN BE AN ISSUE.. HE SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO WALK A BIT A FEW TTIMES A DAY.

SO SHOULD I.

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I GOT MYSELF INTO A FURNITURE STORE YESTERDAY.. AND JUST INSIDE THE DOOR WAS A RECLINER CHAIR... SO I SAT DOWN IMMEDIATELY... 

HMMMMMM.  I NEARLY BOUGHT THE THING...

 BUT 2 PROBLEMS. WHERE TO PUT IT AND  IF I BOUGHT IT, I MIGHT NEVER WALK AROUND AGAIN...

SO I LEFT WITHOUT IT.... BUT IN MY MIND..........

THE SALESMAN SAID THE COMPANY HAD BEEN IN  BUSINESS FOR 100 YEARS..."GOLDEN" 

WHILE I SAW IN THE BROCHURE STARTED 1985- NOT QUITE 100 YEARS AGO SO THAT "TRUTH IN ADVERTISING" DID TURN ME OFF A BIT,,,,

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I DID TALK TO GWEN... WHO IS NOT THE MOST EQUINE  ENTHUSIAST IN THE WORLD-- 

SHE ADMITTED THE 2 BLACK MINI HORSES WERE "VERY CUTE".  AND THE SIZE OF OUR DONKEY HITCH...

WELL OUR DONKEY HITCH  LEADERS WERE 32 INCHES..

32 RING A BELL?? AS IN BENTLEY IS 32 INCHES WITH LEG HALF THE HIEIGHT???

I MAY NEVER COME UP WITH ANOTHER 8 HITCH OF DOGS- DONKEYS OR HORSES. 

  BUT A 6 DOG 2 HORSE IS ALREADY IN THE MAKING.  THAT DARN 32 WILL GET ME IN TROUBLE....

 I WONDER WHO HAS THTAT BEAUTIFUL "FRIEDMAN HARNESS".... I AM SURE IT IS ALL MOLDY..

 BUT LEATHER HARNESS SURVIVES... -- A GOOD SOAKING IN MURPHYS AND I. AM SURE IT WOULD BE BEAUTIFUL AGAIN...

I ALSO WONDER IF FRIEDMAN HARNESS GOOGLES-- THEY WERE THE ULTIMALTE...

SAM FRIEDMAN HIMSELF MADE 4 OF MY HITCH AND HIS SON MADE THE OTHER 4

I COULD TELL BY THE FEEL- WHICH WAS WHICH... A VERY TALENTED HARNESS MAKER...

BETTER THAN ANY COACH LEATHER I EVER"FELT"  

N/A

OH BOY THEY MUST BE EXPECTING A CROWD.....

mar 23  22

 someone ... somewhere ,,, is trying to tell us do not underestimate the value of a dog---

i certainly want to add my name to the list of old lady with a bunch of dogs.. 

he who laughs last laughs best????

i can not believe teh numbers of responses to my rat catching coffee club idea... 

mommy nature is getting back at all the folk who do not pay enough attention to their dogs and what they are capable of doing.

mommy nature is super good at laughing last from global warming to the sexx life of a rat...or i suppose people too.. didn't the bible say that???

i am not what you would call a bible scholar but i think someone said there would be  some problem with lust.

back to rats..... i have contacted 2 people-- the woman with the bunch. of rat catchers... and janine who is wandering around the carolinas

which is where she found "wanda" in a walmart parking lot.-- so i told her to watch out for a small herd of rat terriers....

that picture of the woman with the 115 dead rats bears a great deal of thought. ..i will bet now that the vermin experts. can not line up 

a display of their "achievements" any wheres near the 115 dead rats in less than 2 hours...i have seen these type dogs work- and when you get a good dog,

you have "a find". and it loves the job....

somewhere i did see someone training a rat terrier with a rat in a metal pipe kind of thing with holes in it - training the dog to get all excited about the rat.

and that reminded me..........

 they shot a movie - when i was involved it was called "session 9". and it was filmed in and around danvers state hospital. 

 i remember crawling around the cellar of the place -- which did not have 6' head clearance . in order to release a bunch of 

( homing) pigeons out a small window... with cobwebs.... took forever to get it right with the person upstairs... /

well..... after that was a shot we took near union hospital--- of a man coming home from work... dropped off... with sandwich lunch box 

and they wanted his dog... a jack russell.. to be on a rope tied in the yard and barking excitedly about his return..

the jack russell belonged to someone in hamilton - a horsey friend--- and was really barking at the rat i had borrowed from essex aggie's

rat lab which was comfortably in his lunch box.

and you thought movies were glamourous.???? there were worse-- tho i won't remember them just now....

when you think we are not ubiquitous --- we have a cp from nj... who has offered the 5 sheets of metal for the floor of the rat proof food storage.. what a huge help that will be..... you know.... if we all do whatever we can. we will get great things done....heaven knows the need is great--- there is no paucity of people who need a trained dog....

dc 

 

by now you all must realize there is a large group of  camera people with a great sense of humor

 who have emailed me with "it does not look like a really big deal to them..." .

humor will survive...

 i have no time for the small bunch just looking for trouble. 

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the ubiquitous rat.

going back to the rattery.....a cp sent me the story of a woman who has the answer,,,,,

Today was our first rat hunt of 2022!

Great way to start it off with a catch of 115 plus pinkies.

4 Dogs and an 1& 3/4 hours later.

This group seems very successful at cutting down rat populations... just a thought- they are in New Hampshire...

https://www.facebook.com/blitzadoodledoo/?ti=as

she already has a handful of rat terriers...and a photo of the 115 dead rats.

i knew someone --- a farm type person----with a rat terrier once... every time i saw it , i had a dead rat in it's mouth.

now that is a process in which i can have faith.... i will contact her...

altho i don't think we have enough rats left to make the news like her 115 wilt 4 dogs.

we are catching about one a week... with professional human. help....

have we found just one more way a dog is invaluable? i always thought the seeing eye dog was the ultimate...

times change... now i am thinking ... a rat terrier??????

i could add 4 rat terriers to this mob and never notice... and i would willingly do so.. i have been watching the rat rescue.

i figure if i can find a pregnant rat terrier,, then give the pups to friends, we could meet weekly at alternating homes for "coffee" and bring our dogs.

we would have the only houses without vermin..

they put cats to shame

her photo of the dead rats is spectqacular.

if i can manage to copy it...

i did it !!!!!!!...

she is also promoting birth control for rats... not of significant stregnth to affect wildlife or dogs. that would be a world shaker....

i remember an article on australia where rats swarmed like a tidal wave--- you could not walk becasue of rats... what did they finally do?

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in the meantime.. the sky is not falling... that i know of... in spite of the notices people send to me...

we have some fantastic pups in these 2 litters... i have wanted for years to get some of the claudia bohemia bloodlines in our lines... we sure have it nwo... with these 2 litters

finally we could "researve" a pup from that kennel... in czech-- a male merle was all they had left.. so we bought it... and it had to be shipped from czech to lisbond to boston... 24 hours because of the rabies regulations in germany. if i could have got him to frankfurt he might have had only a 8 hour planeride to boston...--- but no dice....... and we parked him with a nearby family,, i watched him grow with near despair.. back legs grew for 6 months-- head too big--- i wondered what on earth i thought.... his mother had won every prize there is to win in europe- so i kind of forgot about him for another year... when all of a sudden he was a different dog.. so we bred him to two females. producing 2 really nice litters which we now have.....

along the same lines..... i was not thrilled with larkey/s front end--- crooked-- so we eventually neutered him so he woud be nmore "useful" in public. so now he is a neutered male and his front end has straightened out....darn... well he certainly is fantasic in public now..

dc

I was all fired up  discuss a solution  for the state of mass w/r/t rats...... and my computer has gone very strange..

.i had  story lines...

Boston is listed by orkin as the 13^th most rat infested city...

New york is no longer first... but second... and I have a friend who lives in nyc on the 52th floor—and she has a rat problem in her appt..  she says she thinks they take the elevators

Why not use old refrigerators as rat proof containers for all food items in the kitchen...

 And maybe rethink just what do rats consider food—like Toyota sequoias with only 50,000 miles on it—and ridx

 

I am going to leave you with those thoughts. Because I can’t type all this and have this computer wipe it al l out      so just think about those by yourself....

by the time i get this computer awake and functioning,,,, i forget........ i was trrying to pass along a bit of info on fixing apples.   and i can not get rid of it.

p.S. For anyone needing Apple technical support, I have an excellent resource I’d like to recommend. For 12 years now, these weekly emails and other tech support have been made possible by the computer expertise of our special friend, Hugo Heriz-Smith.ross the Atlantic, it’s like he’s sitting right next to me. If you have an Apple product (Mac, iPhone, iPad, etc.), and want to make it work better for you, get in touch with him. He is renowned/revered for his patience and, well, Zen-like demeanor while helping people overcome their technical challenges and fears. His website is HugoCanHelp, and he really can. peter  and why  it is in a little box is beyond me. plus no mic for dictation.... i have to call that guy

 mar 20 2022

best news of the day... he threw up a slipper !! maybe if we leave the yuppy puppy (gumball machine) available mayby he will mouth that????  or maybe jiminey will just get fatter-- he is good at it-----  lachey uses his nose to j ust wiggle the lever... jiminey whacks the lever with his chin...  there are all sorts of ways.... what is interesting is that once they learn to deliver any treats at all. they keep going with that maneuver. even tho  to change might get them more treats per delivery .  something about if it works don' t change??? there are very few who are  either paw and the chin--   ambidextrous?

the rest of what's interestin g is tht the old gumball with a bone for a lever... works beautifully... then they reduced teh size and improved it to the point -- for. lack of a better drop angle, it does not work at all...  i bet i have4 of these "new ones". and i have tried for years to find another.  old  glass bowl metal base one..  even wrote to the company... their "treat delivery system "  inside is flawless...  but the n ew ones don't drop with enough KLANG,,,  like the quarters in las vegas that keep you pullilng that lever....

next problem... the place is a muddy wreck.. i can only think of all the people who come here in th e nice summer and fall months and say   how beautiful and relaxing the farm is... well where are they now-- the place is a muddy mess with broken bits of winter piled hither and yon... if each of you who reads this fool thing would come here and select a 10'x10' area and straighten it out.. maybe just maybe by july 4th we would be presentable.  some 10x10 squares would be worse than others to straighten out....

the worst being the chicken coop.  all these animal. things are delightful. except they need daily maintanence.. and teh chicken crowd is limited to weekends so constantly the coop is out of control...  sunday sandy( now saturday saqndy) came up with a good one... when you put the chickens in at night.. take down the feeders and put them in the metal trash cans so the midnight rat population can go elsewhere...

aside from thaat ... if you constantly scrap the floor, pretty soon   you have a depression in the ground that collects all sorts of wildlife.    same is true of a horse stall  --    you can dig i t out just so many times before you need a truckload of nice dirt to bring the level up again...  alternatel;y... there are those who want to move the chicken operation to the old coop and use teh  new bldg for tools..... i don't really care.. i can do neither... it is a project for those who like playing with the chickens. --- and i know many of the camera people love to watch that camera,,, i am curious... are you watching the chickens... or the activity in the driveway?    if so we may move the chickens out. to an off camera concrete slab.  i have bought what is highly rated as a wildlife deterrment.. an electric net. with plus and minus strands so zapping is predictable.  trouble there is. we are not quite unfrozen yet... and i need to be able to step/press the posts in.

?today??

dc

 All of a sudden with Laura's determination these puppies are being urged into adult. shape.... and that shape happens to be at the moment four and four . for dinner....  .goldie...  in her infinite wisdom has given us 4 merls  and four blacks Which last night we discovered... having fed one black puppy twice and had to get one Merle back in for dinner because we skipped it the first time around.. having these camera people watching very carefully---I had three phone calls and two emails telling me about the fact that we'd forgotten to feed one of the merles.----

 

 when feeding here in the mail call area we really could only feed four at a time because their little bodies are not little anymore --- Ed you can't pack.  8 8 of them in line with the feeder we now have which is a small bowl feeder.. the next size is the yellow feeder in puppy hill which I think is 8 I don't know how I got a bowl in a 10 foot piece of plywood maybe I pieced up another 10 feet no another two feet to make the feeder 10 feet long I bet that's it at any rate it is a little tall for them right now and I thought of cutting it down so we could start feeding all  8 at once well I realized it's only gonna take 20 minutes before they big enough to eat off that 8 feeder the size it is---    I used to feed all 8 at once so we're going to do that again.. especially if Laura has anything to do with it she's only here for a few days midterm or something,,,.... I wish she'd flunk out of college nursing college.. but seeing as she's probably straight A's. I doubt that's gonna happen. it is more likely that someday she will be in charge of mass  General Hospital.. but maybe on her day off she can come and play with the dogs.

 

puzzle of the day... if the storage continaere is 8 x 20 --- oh how builders like 4’ measurements..... fact is. Inside it Is 7’10.5”” so I bet it is 8 foot on the outside... now I never would  get exactly teh measurement.... but if I cut the sheets 7’10” and if that is a problem. Fill the last bit with a piece of 2” angle iron.   And just have to drill a hole or two.... no way could we manage to have those few holes drilled.... and have them match... 

and I  need a truck or.... the proverbial horse trailer....  

 

I spent time yesterday teaching eliz and karen to back it up and turn around...—rule... backing up .. hand at the bottom and that is the way the trailer will go has to be followed by... and when it starts to turn... hand goes quickly the other way to “chase it”. – there is one other caveat three feet going forward we'll save you 20 feet going backwards and you have to think that without very carefully the only other absolute thing that I know about is don't ever hope that you are going to be successful making a U turn because if you can't make it you are in a terrible mess because the trailer will be so jackknifed that you really can't undo yourself going backwards so don't make a U turn in the trailer without getting order from the vice president.

 

Point being here but now that I've taught Elizabeth and Karen how to drive a trailer backwards. if Janine doesn't come back soon I may need to get them to go pick it up sheet metal. in Woburn

I think they saw that coming

 mar 18

toyota in their great wisdom have sent 2 letters offereing us such greeat dealos on  ner toyotas... which are still in the rat range..

such is mass mailings.

Behind me they are feeding the dogs so if you hear comments they'll land here too.. gotta be careful about that.

the boss rat guy.  no we'll be here at 8:00 o'clock to do a walk around...... you.  WillWill. wave wave wave Bianca wait....    see what's happening there are two places where we have the two and a half inch chewed hole which I've left open because we've caught many rats using that as a passageway one is in the cellar door.  clear the other is in the floor of the storage container.. I'm anxious to talk to this boss rat guy.  in and see what gems of wisdom I can pick up there I sort of resent the fact that this whole tribe things that Judy and I did nothing when will you actually did manage to catch many  dozen rats.  we were at it for a while and somehow managed to throw away many  dozen rat traps Which I have record of buying from Amazon---   so I assume they all had a rat in them.   which is one reason now why the rat officials are not having any great success they’re about a month late..  but we are catching one or two aweek.  hello chimmony you want a cookie I don't know what happened to larkey... he usually shows up and demands a cookie also well he's outside somewhere.

 

my trip to butcher boy yesterday.. to purchase the lamb.  Hocks.    was half unsuccessful...  they have lamb Hawks every Thursday of the year except when Saint Patrick's Day falls on a Thursday in which case they have New England boiled dinners so I bought New England boiled dinner for a lot of people including Donna husband.  and then and they thought they were wonderful.. the other things I bought at the same time seemed to be equally as successful in my case shrimp scampi. .... with shredded parmesan...

 

Rushing through the daily doggy my other appointment of the day which could be exciting to watch on a puppy hill camera... Karen and Elizabeth both wanna move two donkeys no 2 goats over to Meredith farm because the hoof trimmer guy will be there this afternoon problem is neither Karen nor Elizabeth know how to drive a trailer..  which really isn't too hard you drive it forward and the thing comes right along behind you with no trouble at all it's going backwards that's the problem with a lot of people and that gets reduced to put your hand at the bottom of the steering wheel and go very slowly backwards and watch which way the trailer moves as you move your hand not much more than 1/2 inch at a time..  I think that's the way the trailer will go but I've forgotten that part myself.. the trick is to move slowly and get control of the trailer so if I get a chance I'm going to have them practice try to back up straight in the process of getting these two goats so that could happen on the puppy hill camera if there aren't too many cars in the way..   ...   watching people try and  back a trailer it's one of the joys of life.

 

Somebody ?barbara? googled meridith farm in topsfield and got a lovely picture of” the hunt”.  There with hounds all dressed up.... loverly  placewhich the gallope thru on occasion...

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