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When you check in to Leahy which you're supposed to do 24 hours ahead you are asked to verify the information on file morning I had some emergency phone number with four 444 in it which I did not recognize

  in an effort to change that I very carefully typed in my own number again... and twice---- like they ask you

and went on with the form---only to have Elizabeth arrive at the door in her jammies because somehow that 444 number although it was not hers it prompted hers to be called---do you have that?---she said all she could hear on her phone which had just dialed her was a mumbled conversation and she thought I was having a stroke and couldn't speak so she came running over here only to find me sitting here with the television going and it was the TV person online that she had heard and I still was diddling with phone numbers.  trying to avoid having the 444 wrong phone number be called ----I was not successful...   

 

A perfect way to start a Friday which is not everybody's favorite day of the week around here...  there are certain days that seem to attract certain problems..  like all surgical problems with the dogs always happen on a Sunday when to go to the 24 hour veterinary care facility is at least 500 times the cost our visit on  a Tuesday.

 

I am still getting very positive reports from Elena about Gemini... and hopefully we will see her and him either Saturday or Sunday

 

the other thing for Saturday is to get me in a position of---- ready to go---with the lovely little donkey who goes upstairs..... so that when I am going to these daycare centers I can just have him hop in the back... and it would be no problem at all to wander into these places with a donkey,,,   should be simple for me to go anywhere with one donkey... when in my history I used to schleep around 8 at a  time. And often that 8 involved elevators which again should be no problem..  there's one donkey recommended by Elizabeth seems to be extremely level headed ....   as donkeys can be.  yesterday was rabies day here and doctor parrot AKA Brian

was here to give rabies shots to everybody and at the same time Elizabeth asked him to estimate the age of each of the animals we have as they all have come through rescue that we really don't know anything about them..

he put the age of that nice little donkey had 2 1/2 years ---poor thing's not even full grown yet that's probably why he walks upstairs without any problem... at any rate Brian also commented on the fact that we had taken totally wild uncontrollable animals and in the matter of a couple weeks turn them into quiet pleasant pets/.  which is another thing donkeys are famous for..  if you treat them like a dog they will behave very much like a dog

the only difference is you need treats for  them based from apples whereas the dogs need treats based on meat and bones... 

 We do have a call at the moment for a donkey in a Hospice facility in Swampscott...  Now you all know that roads around Boston were designed from cow paths---- well the roads getting to Swampscott we're designed by drunken cows//  which when I'm pulling a trailer will present a few challenges/let me rephrase that when somebody else is pulling the trailer and I'm riding as passenger it may be nerve wracking ----I am allowed to back it up..  by process of elimination I am the resident expert at trailer backing-- that is unless Janine arrives who has become very proficient at practicing with the trailer at the dump.

 A call from hospice involves a bucket list-- so we better hurry  

 

now on the process of puppy finding I thought I found a solution--2 puppies born in February in Pennsylvania

and I went to their web---I swear you could adopt A child easier then you could get a puppy from that kennel.  there are so many ways that a puppy might not have an ideal living condition that many AKC breeders try and protect them..  but I bravely started down through the application form checking off the fact that yes the puppy would be kept in the house and then I got to the sticky ones like did I believe in crate training? how many other animals did I have... who lives here and how old are they--  and it got worse from there -- by the time it got to the bottom of this form... the descriptions were so long that I just frankly stopped reading them however at the very bottom there was a notation of a $500 deposit was required to make an application and it was non refundable.... At which point I decided puppies from Europe were easier.. you buy the puppy--you give them money and they give you the puppy.. and they don't care how old the puppy is to be spayed or neutered or if you breed it or not it is your puppy...  I could appreciate what people are trying to do here but in fact it really doesn't work out/.  I try very hard to keep track of all the puppies I've produced and we'll continue to do that with jiminy

in my case I have the help of over 1000 people who help watch all across the country and I do hear of how things are going...--- it's very rarely---- I think I've had to send somebody after a puppy twice.  in my 20 years or so.

so Elena.---- you just keep those whipped cream cones coming to my friend Jimmy===