Puppy pix! Shunkar with his dad, right up the street at Daniela’s. Irbis (brindle), Kira (red) and Jengiz (grizzle), last day together. Irbis and Kira (we kept Mr. I, and Kira went to Dave in Utah). Jengiz wrestles with a new friend at John B’s in California. That is his half- sister behind.
Tag: Dogs
Pups grow…
The first one is of Lashyn when she squirmed into a too small crate with them and almost squashed them. The neurotic old girl had NEVER gone voluntarily into a crate. We got them out by unscrewing one side but she stayed in long enough to snap a photo The rest are self explanatory– at …
Spring pronghorn
It seems like spring is a month early this year. The geese arrived the last weekend of February, and the prairie dogs are even peeking out, chattering at me and the dogs. As you can see from this photo, by last weekend, the snowcover was gone from the sagebrush, and the pronghorn were looking great …
Promised Puppy Pix
I didn’t get any of the girl this time, so just the three boys today (I think she was behind Lashyn). More to come.
Out of Date Puppy Pix
These are at two weeks and yesterday made three. Eyes open, wrestling now. I promise more soon!
He who rules this roost
Lest anyone be left with the mistaken impression that big dogs rule the household here (simply because they’ve taught the humans to sit elsewhere so the big dogs can nap on the comfy couches), I need to clarify something. It’s actually the little dog that rules this roost. His name is Abe.These three big dogs …
Where does a big dog sleep?
Anywhere it wants, of course.
Two-year olds
We had to do some cattle work in the corrals today, so Rena (the Akbash dog) and Roo (the burro adopted off the range in Nevada), got together to entertain each other. They are both almost two years old, and are matched in temperament.
Living with livestock guardians
I have the pleasure of living with livestock guardian dogs. Ours is a working sheep and cattle ranch, so our dogs live with the sheep, but I generally raise a litter a year, so that means I am often living with puppies and socializing them to humans, buildings, etc. I raise the pups for other …
New Pups!
I have hinted here and there but today our new pups arrived and are looking good.(At about 4 AM– we had to carry the doghouse inside and move the first pup to the whelping box, with all the other dogs leaping up to get a look and Lashyn growling through the door, because she wanted …