July 31, 2011

the only back and forth mails  i had yesterday were between george and i- and some were pretty good

history of the case-- chaos has a lump--and since she is nursing-- it looks like it is a normal milk producing lump

 

well even if it is in the right location - and relatively size and shape- it had no nipple

 

her temp was slowly rising  102.5 so i started emailing george-- who is on vacation and  floating about on some lake.

 

"count her nipples" 

 

 we all crawled around the floor with the girls  counting nipples   and found

 

olive had 12

bailey 7

and chaos 8

i emailed george

 

george said 10  is usual   and to put her on amox and keep our eye on it.

well there is no dog on the property  who gets more "watching" than earlene and paul's favorite dog   chaos

 

and then it started to ozzz

"what color is the ooozz"

"clear drops "

"must be opening encourage it to drain  with a needle"

"as soon as i go pick up pizza"

"what color?"

"slightly darker red than the pizza"

"keep going with the amox"

 

we have really great vet advice- altho unusual at times.

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now  after the nipple study...

 

it is about one facet of training

we went to dinner at the club- to use up our $300 before aug 1st--- and hillary handled bumpy perfectly-- and he looked terrific.

megan on the other hand handled fido much too loosely-  fido being such a friendly trouble free dog can be turned loose anywheree- so megan has got in the habit of forgiving his wandering.. she knows how he is thinking so she adapts the "oh go ahead"  --naturally he is taking it one step further.

 

it hit me tht we do a lot to define the difference between

 harness on=working 

 harness off= do as you please

and she is loosing that with fido 

 

time to sharpen up that distinction.

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i took bailey with me for a quick run to home depot and put her vest on-- but had no leash--

with a couple verbal "damm it pay attention" commands  she was on the button.. including stand and stay while i ran down a crowded aisle --- when i returned people were pushing carriages past her as she just stood--- bored...  perfect !.

 

fido used to be like that.

 

we have a ways to go with these pups before we have any up to the level of fido and bailey

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today... Sunday stew normally

but my goal is to get the deck/back room  ready for a litter of pups

and we need a discussion about the size of the concrete pad on the deagle hill

 

jeff said they might have time to do that soon-- have a look at their other projects http://www.jmasterson.com/   i could not see on their web where they said "dead horses burried" 

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other project

and to dispose of the someday piles -- they are out of hand

 

the "someday i will"... jest ain't happenin

 

July 30, 2011

bless george--- he gets up early--- even if he is on vacation at some lake  because...

we have a booob problem

 

so the educational discussion  today is booobs

 

chaos has 8--- olive has 12

 george says 10 is normal--- so much for normalcy around here-

 

but chaos' has a normal looking lump  of  size... shape everything looks fine--- but no nipple

lori noticed it yesterday-- and we all slid it around-- and wondered...-- it was soft --temp 102.1 and decided it was some mammalary complication because of the no nipple--  we even tried the laser temp taker which can take temps long distance  and the lump  was the same as the rest of her.. 

 

but today it is bigger-- and harder.. so i emailed george--- who said to put her on amoxicillin , keep our eye on it,otherwise he would be home tomorrow

 

i told him he could bring camera and we could take these olive pups out for a run around with mom-- offering him a teriffic photo-op.

 

the currency of the trade

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training wise...

megan and i took pi--indy--noel and jasper -- steadied by bailey----for "intro to trains 101"  which involved backing up to  the tracks  at the beverly station for 2 hours feeding the dogs bits of pulled pork out the open back door.--- and after the 4th train most of them would stay in the back door eating forkfulls of pork.  when the first train came by the yearlings tried to climb out the front window----bailey had been there before and pi liked pulled pork too much to give up her spot.

 

it was a most relaxing afternoon--people came and went

one woman came by -- and i said   i bet you could never guess what this job is...

and she said"well i just came from goerge myer's office where they have a video running about some woman in ipswich   and this looks like the same group"

i lost that bet.

 

another  day of that and we can actually get on a train

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megan is taking barney to kieth-- scheduled next ?Saturday?  megan's mother will be arrainging the flight---she works for the airline--- and last i heard might even be on a flight to atlanta that day

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. bud2 is due here Monday to work with indy  so  he will have had only a few days training  which is a bit soon for him to take a car/hotel trip with indy... which means hillary may get the job of going to bud2's grandmother's 90th birthday party in conn.  perfectly good person for the job.

 

that "bumpy" is a gooood dog... she had him at dinner last night

in a desparate move 8 of us ran to the country club to eat up the $300  minimum before aug 1st.

 

that coa van looks soo  good--- pauul has been  cleaninig it up---  i had enough nerve to stop at the gate and ask for a window sticker-

 

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we have to get some better looking vests for these pups when we go out in public...

we do have one small one- but we have a lot of pups coming and need more than one

 

and on we go

 

maybe costco and somewhere noisy today with  indy

then stew tomorrow,

 

for your intellectual development 

try 

 http://www.pond5.com/   search for bus noise-- or new york traffic

 

July 29, 2011

finally from barbara-- ( casey came off his motorcycle/scooter and broke a lot of things ---including his head)

 

sorry reply took long been BUSY...Casey is doing remarkibly well.. We are all surprised.. It will take at least ^ months to full brain recovery buhe should reeturn without any longterm brain damage... HE is very very lucky>>>ox B

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now in the dumb luck department---

 

i was near shaunessy  with indy---yesterday and thought i could wander in with out too much effort-- and it would be good for indy ....when i walked in --- in my best servce dog harness  and manner-- the receptionest asked "whither thou goest?" and  with absolutely nothing to go on i said  "5th floor" and turned to be relieved to see they had a 5th floor.  i was warmly recieved--- wandered around - got in the  elevatior and pushed 3rd floor  totally at random--- they were happu to see indy too.

then down to the lobby ( this is the exciting part) elevator doors open  and a woman said "carlene!    did you see larry??"

" i am karen"

i quickly ran thru all the karen's i could think of (   just 1--- karen who took didi to new york and that wasn't her.)

"don't you remember???"---- now i know she doesn't know me-- or my memory...

quickly she got into "polly... bailey...and larry- they guy from brooksby--- (into whos bed they had bailey jump)

THAT I REMEMBERED

BUT I HAD NOT STOPPED IN TO SEE LARRY-- I DIDN'T REALLY KNOW WHY I WAS AT SHAUNESSY  IN THE FIRST PLACE--- EXCEPT  IT was there.. so we went back and visited larry- and he was happy--

 

came out and--- indy made a beeline for the council of aging van

except it was not ours-- i made a significant effort to explain there was more than one coa van.

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we should make an effort to go back with the red carriage-- the entire place would disolve--

??line up a news paper??

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 george must have some subconscious feeling about bobby and his prostate infection....-- he sent us 200 pills-  the plan was to neuter bobby as soon as we determine we have no further possibilities of his fathering a litter. and he gets 2 pills a day-- by then we should have pups---

 

 if he bobby works--- we might want to keep him on pills---

he certainly did work on the project--- adding to the education of gwen's legal friends--  after all---tail to tail is a awkward looking spectacle/..

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i have 2 intellectual types offering opinions on luna's possible pending  pregnancy

 dermatologist---mdphd--- "swimmers are swimmers-- and a  little pink blood should not matter."

neighbor dvmphd "might be fine ."

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so Friday Saturday Sunday ??15 16 17 July  add 63---  hillary gets sept 15th as her due date---  which means george says he can try a fabulous finger feelie in 25 to 30 days---so we chase george-- august 15th

 

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earline is busy  counting nipples on chaos  --jobs around here can be interesting.

 

chaos has a lump--- it matches the working nipples  but had no nipple-- george said to count-- we should have 10 matching 

and earline finds only 8 on choas--  

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**********************   i did not plan this underlining-- but i have learned not to fight with the computer early in the morning---  if the little button does not want to work  so be it.   a very willful computer---  if we are going with so many good things fate has offered us---  we can just accept the permant underline *****************   earline and paul stayed overnight-- finally getting the names of the black pups down pat   it is line a logic problem---  if 2pups have a black spot on their tummy and  there are 3 pups with  with the white spot  on their nose... which pup is the gurgler?    earline said none of them last night-- i left her with paper-- pen--- and  tom's stethoscope   ****************** SDP does pretty well on the pot luck food department   our Sunday food usually feeds the entire crew  til about Wednesday then it goes to the chickens--- who give us eggs !!    paul got into the  Sunday sandwiches in the guest house at midnight last night.  let us pray... egg salad.. refrigerated mayonase--- should be fine... there is always flagyl--- a lot of dogs are on it---  we have a big bottle--- and the only directions i have are .. not to use on pregnancy--- not  a problem with paul. ***************** from our sojourn it karls german kitchen-- bud bought us  some  Wiesswurst  and appropriate mustard then told me how to cook it

bring  water to boil  
remove water from heat and add Wiesswurst
wait 8 min and serve with mustard
so we (all puppy tenders) ate that yesterday

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plans?

 

normal day

getting indy  bored

 

July 28, 2011

there will be no brilliant remarks this morning

 

i had puppy duty from 11 to 7- for my second time in a week-

 

between the big ones insisting on a midnight snack--- and the little ones loosing track of mom and her cafeteria-- you don't sleep much

 

lori is here -- thankfully

 

we need to rig something on indi's harness to tell people to stay away-- we have had several recipients who do not like people coming up too close behind.  bud2 is one of them

 

with all the "is that a horse" comments maybe "stay back.. she kicks"

 

or i thought "wide load"

 

 what do you expect----it was a rough night

 

July 27th, 2011

from last night's flatbread fundraiser

we got 1,183.32 !!!!    :)

 

 mark was there camera in hand- and promises a tabloo soon

 

thanks  a bunch of people-- and dogs   fido  bailey --4 month old crimson  -- bumpy( father of pups)-- and 2 pups yellow and opal .

 

boy is bumpy a nice dog-- thumper like--- no worries-- kids climbing all over him as he looked like the regal lions of the nyc library???

 

couple observations--- amesbury is "alive"---- getting to be a second newbury-- instead of decaying brick factories-- much of it has been redone---

 

pups were starving when we got home--and olive was not thrilled to feed them-- so they ended up with some goats milk in a bowl-

they survived...

 

chaos had the shakes last night- and i am waiting for george to tell me if i should give her the bag of  lactated ringers from the last  episode.

megan can take her temp when she arrives.

and we will be making a costco trip for the olde tyme cottage cheese solution

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today--- bud 2 gave us places he might visit--- for us to get indy used to--- one being swimming--- so janine--- here we come.

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cutting and pasting

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 I am also going to try to figure out how to get SDP on ebay  as a charity. I'll get back to you on that one.

-Jade

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go for it JADE

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POOR MIKE IS TRYING TO SIMPLIFY SDP INTO NORMAL BUSINESS LANGUAGE--- FOR THIS 5 YEAR PLAN  - AND HE IS DOING A VERY BUSINESS LIKE JOB .

IT AIN'T EASY.

THE VARIABLES ARE HUGE.

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PATRICIA SUMMED US UP

  lots of MASH-style operations and contraptions to make things work and fund-raising with mirrors, I believe. It’s all very down to earth, creative, heart-warming and purposeful.

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It's very nice to see that HeyDawg has a new match.  He is a wonderful dog, and looks to be very happy with Gay and she with him.  I wish them well.

V2

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Poor Mike. I'll bet he has fun with this one

July 25,2011

pups are doing great---- i was /am still worried about 2 of the chaos pups--- but i seem to remember from having children 50 years ago  or something-- that in the first day newborns often loose a bit of weight before they start to gain.

 

all well and good--- but i would prefer all the pups to do the same thing-- so monitoring chaos pup's weight is critical

the green pup went from 1.4  to 1.3-- but this morning is 1.6 ( one pound 6 oz)

 

the female with the stripe and "wing" went from 1.11 to 1.8  i am suspicious of that 1.11-- could be operator trouble--- i have not weighed her yet... i was most worried about greenie just  from the looks of her.

 

many exiting things yesterday---

last night somehow earline fell with a pup-- pup was fine-- but screaming--with that  chaos lept to her feet-- with that "let me help you kill it" routine that you see in dogs when they are faced with a confused animal..  just try and walk across our yard with an angry hen in your hands..  you will need a second person to fend off the dogs.

 

personally   i think this  concept is behind so many children being attacked by dogs.     .picture a child screaming about wanting an icecream cone being dragged by mom-- and think - how does the dog see that???  same as the angry hen--- or scared pup..  even the best dogs have that flash thru their minds.

 

i will never forget having 8 well controlled dogs loose at a great gadsby party-- everything was fine til they started dancing-- and i realized the dogs saw that as fighting  and  the pack  started to circle the dance floor--- waiting for  the charge. 

 

experience often comes from bad expoerience

 

 and last night's episode means that overnight--- and mos of the day-- we should keep the "gates" closed between chaos and olive--  if one of olive's pups gets a paw stuck in the slots of the fence-- chaos might charge-

 

gates closed.

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David arrived-- ( as in tucker's david) he had fun relaxing with the pups and friends...

one of whom cut my hair beneath the "mister" -soaking us to the skin--- but it was hot !!!

 

many kids enjoyed both olive's pups - and that "mister" 

 

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this 5 year plan---  i put down on paper what might happen/should happen-

most of the people reading this ( prior to sending it to fred) i don't think have an appreciation of what 24 graduates involves- i still think 24 is a possible number

 

tripping lightly thru the numbers... correct me if i am wrong...

24 graduates possibley means 30 pups

 

which we now have( nearly)  these will graduate  2012-2013

by 2013 we will be out of dogs... unless we have more pups  in 2012  which would be the graduates of 2013-2014--- then one more time--- to have pups to graduate in 2014-2015means 30 pups in 2013

 

if you slice thru that time line-- at any time megan - colleen and i would be dealing with 24 pups in training--  a kennel person with volunteers would be waltzing around with  another 30

 

 and volunteers would be chasing 30 babies around the plnd... sort of.

 

in other words we would have about 90 dogs on the property-

that is the number to focus on...

and it is do-able--  time wise--

we would need 2 more people

 

and everyone would have to accept training a  dog is done in 15 minute segments-- with a hell of a lot of sitting around drinking coffee "achieving boredom"

 

did that 90 dogs knock the socks off anyone???

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 today

first off-- go take a shower  ( i slept with chaos last night)--

the coffee is helping--- but today will be a long haul..

 

the rest of the day teaching dogs to achieve boredom as i will be in blind stagger mode

and pistol wore out visiting canines in the pond--

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this fate business is eerie

 

why alice wadley (pistol)  chose this moment to do the linkin thing i do not know

according to her link-- she is connected with red cross--- her  speciality?

alliance against violence

 

moving on...

 

July 23,2011

things are moving along

 

chaos is ripping and tearing

we have lost another futon to motherhood

and the futon she has chosen is the one just inside the front door..

in my plan of things.. that was olives sofa

 

the best laid plans of mice or women????

 

and olive let chaos hang her head in the pen with the 9 pups

i swear she was saying... "go ahead--- you feed the little SOB's"

a technically correct statement

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so while we wait on chaos- we can start the solid food with the 9

 

i use the term solid-- only because it is solid when it drys all over your shirt

plan is to grind  about 1/2 cup of puppy food-- add i scoop of goats milk powderand water - 4 oz?  to make a gruel- a very fluid gruel for openers

 

set out a towel.. put one pup at a time on the towel.. then  proceed to  teach the pup that food is DOWN in a dish by using s spoon of food to direct the nose--- and it is not necessary to massage the food with your front feet. 

 

i have learned not to trust our ability to do the

"30 days hath september" bit----  and thus get the expected due date correctly

 

if i alert earlene i am sure chaos will then fall asleep

per the paper megan gave me  it is more like Sunday Monday possible start

 5/23  5/24  5/25  AND ADD 63 DAYS

 

ALONG ABOUT NOW I WISH WE HAD STARTED TAKING HER TEMP 3 DAYS AGO

 

( OLD WIVES TALE  TEMP DROPS TO 98 DEGREES 24 HOURS BEFORE LABOR STARTS)

 

so i am going to make the coffee

 

 N.B.    I DO NOT HAVE A CALL LIST  ON THE WALL FOR THIS DELIVERY