The "cow" collection

I think I really want to start to collect cows.

Luther was my first. We have always lovingly called him our "bull".

Remember this great pin/pendent that Emily made of him?

As of Wednesday, we acquired an "ox". Meet Ben! His owner was unable to keep him and I got a frantic call from his pet sitter asking if I knew of someone who could foster him. We said "Sure, we can do short term foster." When I met him, I knew he was the big dog I was looking for!!

Ben is a 5 year old (shares the same birthday as Skunk & Lulu) oversized English Springer Spaniel. We adore his goof-ball personality!

Puppies due July 6?!

July 6th would be 9 weeks from estimated ovulation. Today is 5 weeks from the first breeding and we have a distinct bulge. I am very excited at the opportunity to have Dallas puppies!

The inhabitants of the fish tank...

It has been a bit since I posted on my fish tank. The guppy didn't last 2 days and a month later my favorite fish, the dalmatian mollie, died of ick. I was very upset. Reading comments from my first blog post on this topic, I was unable to find nice swordtails at any of the local (15 mile radius) stores.

Now we have 5 store bought platies and one homebred! Well mum came pregnant and one of the fry survived. (L-R) top row: male sunburst micky mouse, female red mickey mouse, my two sunburst females in different shades. Below the suburst is a female white mickey mouse platy. Under her, a little to the left in the plant, you will see a light speck which is the surviving fry of the lighter sunburst, on the far right.

In this photo you can see the youngster on the left diagonally under the filter intake (probably 6 weeks old now) and two of my three pink glo-fish. Unseen in the photo, the fry does have twin tail fin bars, so maybe it was sired by a twinbar platy. I can't wait to watch her grow. EDITED: I did verify that the fry is female.

Photographic proof that we do have a frog in the 30 gallon tank. His name is now Waldo as I can never find him, and have gone for over a week at a time not knowing if he was still a resident. He was at the top of the tank this evening and I was able to snap this not so good photo (which makes him look larger than he is.

A tale of a turtle

Look what was in our unused "segregation run" of the dog yard! The dogs made the discovery as it was trying to get in where they play. What I really want to know is how it got there. Emma was hoping this was a new toy just for her.

After I rescued it from the dog yard, I took t he opportunity to take some photos prior to releasing it in the woods.

This is a young painted turtle, which was not much bigger than my cell phone.

Happy Barkday - a day late

Happy Barkday to the Sabrina x Carbon kids, who are now 3! Time just flies right by!!

Emma is very happy since she think Hush was brought home just for her.

Magnet got a new home for an early barkday present. He now lives with Luther's sister, Destiny, and loves sleeping in bed with his humans. Since the showring was not his happy place, he is now neutered and will try out herding and agility next year.

Let sleeping dogs lie...

Luther, in his favorite sleeping position...

And Emma is thrilled to have Hush as her new best friend! The girls are inseparable!

They even decided to chew their nylabones together in Luther's crate.

Needless to say, Hush is fitting in wonderfully!

Oh! Remember this beautiful necklace I was given by Penni?

You should have seen Hush chase the yellow butterfly in the dog yard yesterday. And the beautiful, but stupid, bug landed directly in front of her. Yup, it was eaten... but the expression on Hush's face when she caught it was priceless! Alas, no camera available at the time...

Our new addition!

As I type this, laying at my feet is our newest addition... "Hush" aka Heritage Hill Say No Moore. I can't thank Debbie Moore enough for entrusting me with this brindle beauty!








The bitter part is that I brought her home from attending the funeral long-time Cardi breeder/do-it-all Beth Magnus of Hedgerow Cardigans. Taken much too young, she fought a valiant fight with cancer. Eleven years ago Beth was one of the very first Cardi people I had met and her happy self gave me a positive outlook to getting involved with this breed.

Dachshund Club of Greater Syracuse BPIS

I had a great day today judging sweeps for the DCGS! Unfortunately we forgot the camera so Leonard had to take a photo with my cell phone. A lovely mini longhair male from the 6-9 class was my BPIS.