Turkey tendons sent from David in Chicago, who likes to spoil pups, near or far, are a BIG hit with the 13-week-old Gail x Max pups.

The Meg x Max pups are starting to get big and Meg’s milk is not enough. At 3-1/2 weeks they started on ground puppy kibble, scrambled egg and cooked ground beef. Max is a big dog, Meg is big for a female, and these pups look like they will be big as well. They leave the whelping box at 4 weeks old for the big world puppy kennel (and shavings rather than bedding).

I wonder WHAT will it take for America to wake up to Trump’s malfeasance and corruption? When will we stop appeasing him? When will we stop calling it ‘normal‘ or ‘Trump being Trump‘? When will we stop turning the other way, lying to ourselves and others? This is NOT normal! This is NOT democracy! And this is NOT making America great again!!

The Nippon Steel – US Steel deal is pure Trumpian corruption. And the corruption is EVERYWHERE!

It is a scary thought to think that American democracy may be as dead as John Cleese’ parrot …but it just may be.

These 4 pups delivered 5 days ago by Jazz with Pete as sire are thriving. I am very enthusiastic about this litter of pups (2F/2M) because of Pete (and Jazz).

The bond with Kate [né Tynygraig Meg] was instant. A take-anywhere, do-anything 10 month old sweetheart from Dewi, here now for 10 days. She is nonplussed, balanced and eternally happy. Unruffled by the new, noisy and frightening on her first Saturday of errands: she was 100% with me and comfortable. No worries at all. Kate doesn’t miss a beat. This is one of those pups who ‘gives herself over’ to her human, early on, declaring “I trust you.”
[Pedigree in an earlier post.]

Juneteenth 2025: Another ‘unauthorized’ mating this spring. About 2 months ago, Jazz and Peter ran off and came back 15 minutes later all smiles. I suspected, but did not administer the ‘morning after’. The result is 4 pups [2M/2F] added to my spring assortment of unauthorized, unplanned pups. These pups feel *very* healthy and went straight for the teat. Good instinct!

At least Jazz has good taste. She chose my #1 dog: Peter.

Peter is a dog every serious competitor or rancher should breed with.  He is Dewi Jenkins’s dogs with more fire and jaw-dropping style, from James McCloskey’s Nel. I have not seen Pete’s equivalent. Dewi told me himself, there is something special about the combination of his Clwyd Bob and daughters of McCloskey’s Sweep. That is exactly what Peter is.

Pete will kickstart, sharpen and augment a breeding program. He is available at stud in Vermont and in frozen breeding doses for serious breeders. This is a chance to get one of his pups.

Pups from tis litter should be smooth coated, classically marked, pricked-eared, intense and talented.

Jazz was banished to the puppy room in the barn (shared with Meg) at 4 a.m., rather than getting to have her litter inside the house. She had escaped the whelping area and ripped a down jacket of mine sitting on a chair to shreds …cries of glee while ripping and tearing at the jacket to make the down come out could be heard as I headed back from the barn. She’s lucky she was in labor or there would have been hell to pay for that one!

Go directly to Jail! Do not collect $200.

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Bitch fights can be frightening things. Females fight longer and harder than males. Males pretty quickly know who is dominant and the lesser male backs off –for fear of mortal damage. Bitches just keep going.

22 month old Susie did not back down from the head bitch today, 4 year-old. It was getting way too dangerous. I had to whack Sue over the head with a shovel to stop her attack on nursing Meg.

Sue is a very powerful female, often mistaken for a male: Clwyd Bob x McCloskey’s Nel. Even as a puppy, I told people that she reminded me of a Detroit ‘muscle car’. She now has only one senior dog in the pack, littermate Peter.

Peter is a the jaw-dropping phenomenon of good breeding. I have never seen a dog better than Peter –not anywhere, in any trial, in any video.

You don’t tug on Superman’s cape

You don’t spit into the wind

You don’t pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger

And you don’t mess around with Sue

A photo of me and the dogs –well, 5 of them anyway– was featured in the coverage of the local No Kings protest on 14-July-2025.

It was indeed a struggle for me keeping up with the dogs with all the noise and distractions: horns (of all sorts), sirens, drums, shouts. And then, there were the fits of domination from senior dogs of the same sex to younger dogs. I thought the dogs did very well, considering.

Peter was in his glory! Strutting around like a peacock, nothing fazes him. He picked on poor Mirk. Becca pick on Lotti. Gail stoically endured it, as she does everything. I forget what a stable dog she is.

After 2 hours of noise and people coming up to touch them, the dogs got their reward: a walk at the Dartmouth woods. No people, just nature and trails.

BIG THANKS to Mimi at GiveADogAHome on Etsy for supplying the vests!

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…I couldn’t resist this one

Schadenfreude: the ‘Dictator Parade’ was a bust. But then, what should we have expected from the crew of thugs that has seized our government and a man who has succeeded at nothing but bullying and lies??

The US Army deserved better than to have its 250th anniversary appropriated by a shameless, narcissistic and crazy would-be dictator who called our veterans ‘suckers’ and ‘losers’.

The Dictator Parade HUMILIATED our armed services. Trump politicized our military to satisfy his own ego …and did a very bad job of it. We should ALL be disgusted!

Image of the Day

Trump deserves his own catchphrase: “You’re fired!“

It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to
Cry if I want to
Cry if I want to
You would cry too if it happened to you