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Showing posts with label Roseannadannas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roseannadannas. Show all posts
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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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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Monday, August 29, 2011

Wean

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We are beginning to wean the Roseannadannas. Force-weaning is unnecessary, and frankly a bit barbaric. Unless a bitch cannot nurse h...
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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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Saturday, August 6, 2011

Photo Phriday: Oh Hai!

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Ten days old. Precocious peepers.
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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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