The problem with feeding your dog real food, IE: meat and bones like they'd actually eat in the wild, is that you get the side-effects of such a diet. To wit: Dogs fart, and sometimes they barf stuff up. Nash has been able to clear a room in the past, but this morning that mutt (loveable, yes, but still a mutt!) produced a stench that would ( Read more... )

Dogs are friendly critters as a rule; Being pack animals, they tend to settle in nicely with their human pack-mates once they know where they fit in on the scale. Young dogs, like young humans, tend to test the boundries to see what they can or cannot get away with. Overall, Nash is a good dog; Not too bright at times, but overall pretty good. ( Read more... )

     It's been a long day, and mostly a quiet one as well.  I had to come in to the bowling alley at 10am to meet the Pepsi-Co driver.  Soft-drinks aren't cheap, and I wonder if the amount of profit on the bottled stuff is even worth it.  On an order than cost just over $800, we make a little more than $200 profit.   That's a mighty thin margin, ( Read more... )

Although I got a slightly later start than I had hoped for, my day-trip to Medicine Hat turned out to be quite successful.  My first stop was Home Depot, where I purchased some electrical supplies that I wasn't able to find locally.  Most annoying thing there was that the item I wanted was only $1.70, but they were completely sold ouf of ( Read more... )

     There's nothing quite like the smell of a wet dog; But at least if it's a clean wet dog, it smells a little better!

Nash had his first bath this evening, and it went over better than I had expected it to.  Somehow, I got drafted into doing the actual washing part while the Kidling held onto him and
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     I made it safely back to the farm around 5:20pm this afternoon.  The trip took just over six hours, so I made pretty good time.  Biggest problem was that just before I reached Gull Lake, the blower-motor on the AC conked out again, and this time I can't seem to get it running again.  I pulled over while I was in Gull Lake and tugged on the ( Read more... )

 
     Another very busy day...

Jack arrived at 7:40am (twenty minutes early) with his payloader to make the gravel pad between the garage and old grain silo.  Trixstir and I had been up since 6am, trying to get things ready, but we were still not quite finished when Jack arrived.  Fortunately this wasn't a big issue, and things went along ( Read more... )

For those who have been wondering what he looks like, here are a few pictures of our little trouble-maker...  :)

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   Two days ago, I made a posting about the Kidling's first experience in The Joys of Dog Ownership.

In one of several replies to the posting, silaria  posted some excellent advice about feeding and caring for a new dog, and that brings me to a new thread; What kind of Dog Food is really the best, health-wise and value-wise?

I've heard the ( Read more... )