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Showing posts with label English shepherds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English shepherds. Show all posts
Saturday, August 4, 2012

Snapshot Saturday: Her Dorkness, Lady Mayor of Dorkville

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Lady is five months old. She is constructed entirely from legs, tail, and schnozz.  She has no earthly idea where her feet are located, a...
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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Making Lemonade

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I partner with English shepherds in my work.  I breed and raise them to be as intelligent as possible -- no prudent stops on cognition, desi...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Choosing and Raising a Small Farm Dog: Short Form

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By request from many of the wonderful participants at my farm dog presentations at the Mother Earth News Fair on Saturday, I have uploaded ...
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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Snapshots Saturday: Kid Gene

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I only want to produce English shepherds who have the kid gene. That means they don't just tolerate whatever damn fool thing a kid does ...
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Friday, September 16, 2011

The Pupdorf School

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Conquer Mount Mulcherest or memorize the state capitals? In face of the -- pardon me -- frakking absurd claim from a throne of authority * ...
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Friday, September 9, 2011

Photo Phriday: Fun Uncle, #2

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Ernesto is still a puppy himself. It's like having a teenage babysitter who still likes to play Legos with the kids.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Base Seven

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One of the gospels of dog breeders who make a good-faith effort to do right by their puppies is the popular " Rule of Sevens ." No...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

It Takes a Pack to Raise a Puppy, Part I: Uncle Cole

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A great mother gets a puppy -- or a whole mob of them -- off to a great start. But it's not natural that she should have to do it alo...
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Friday, August 19, 2011

Use Names

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When they go to their permanent homes, the Roseannadannas will get their permanent names. Each will have a registered name and a regular ...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Transitional

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Click little speech balloon icon for captions. The Roseannadannas turn three weeks old today, leaving behind the label "transiti...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Bye Bye Baby(hood)

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With the appearance of all their tiny peepers over the weekend, the Roseannadannas are officially no longer neonates. They've now ent...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Brain Breakfast

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Old wive's white-coats' tale -- you can't teach a puppy anything before his eyes open. No less a pair of authorities than Scott...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

Hormonal

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I have never quite grokked it when a woman complains that she is feeling "hormonal." When a man makes a sub-simian crack about a ...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Welcome, Roseannadannas

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Twenty-one hours of stage I labor, four hours of delivery. Three girls, four boys. Sable boy is a genuine runt who won't take no for an...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

Not Your Stick

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Ernie about to be introduced to a hitherto obscure Law of Nature Cole has taken on our latest foster, young Ernie, as an interesting project...
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Monday, June 13, 2011

Please Enjoy this Photographic Interlude While Your Operator Catches Some Z's

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More later on our Gathering, but for now, a not-very-edited photo montage.
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Monday, June 6, 2011

This Weekend

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So shoot me, I am not a food stylist. Have you bought your raffle tickets for a customized basket of Brandywine Farm humanely pasture-rai...
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Friday, May 27, 2011

Photo Phriday: Cow. Dogs.

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More later; Blogger is crawling along tonight. Brandywine Briar Rose and Caledonia Danny Boy. I do not remember the name uf da cow.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Brandywine Farm English Shepherd Gathering is Coming

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Will we see you there? RSVP by email, at the event's Facebook page , or in a comment on the event page -- full names, please, so we kno...
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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Job Application

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A friend's account of a puppy at the shelter where she volunteers brings back a story. This is Goose. He's at B.A.R.K. in Billings,...
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