Rhys Off to His New Life in New Jersey

7 month old Rhys left today to a an exceptional home with experienced border collie owners Brian & Lisa. Rhys chose Lisa …displaying a kind of please-take-me-home, don’t-leave-without-me affection from the first. Lisa melted. When things like this happen, everyone just knows it’s right.

Middle Powers in the New World Order

TACO Trump backed down from his mad, dangerous, destructive Greenland bluster today …but the damage to trust and the old world order is done. America kicked its friends and allies in the genitals. 80+ years of trust spoiled.

In Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered an important address about the fallout from the cancer of Trumpism and the end of America as force for good in the world. Go 🇨🇦 !!

Here is the full text of that speech and link to a video.

Finn Goes to His New Home

6 month old Finn (né Shark) is off to a new home in Central Vermont with Gregg, Lisa and their two pre-teen daughters. With an easy temperament and happy nature, Finn is ideal as a family dog for this young household. I asked Gregg & Lisa if they needed to come back for a second visit just to make sure. They said, “No, Finn is the one.”

Finn in his new home with Lisa

Rain in Portugal

Martha sends me the most awesome shots of her Thundering Paws Farm working collie, Rain, from Portugal, where she has wisely taken refuge from the crumbling, disintegrating USA. Martha made the right choice, for her family, and for Rain. I’m right behind her.

Martha …I’m coming! And I’ll bring you a pup to keep Rain company.

I spontaneous screamed “Yay!!!!!” at the end of this clip on FB.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/896798982802300 Stephen Colbert is a courageous voice of the resistance!

Even if you mistakenly supported Trump and his malevolence, take stock and resist. Otherwise, the American experiment will perish and….

Phoenix Goes to an Angus Cattle Farm

Pretty tricolored female, Phoenix, joined Sarah and Travis on their Angus cattle farm in NY State today. Phoenix is the first of the Nel x Blue litter to go off to her new home (a bit earlier than usual).

Happy New Beginnings for Phoenix

Injured Puppy

An injured 10-week-old puppy is my housemate until she recovers. She is slowly getting used to the idea. She would love to go out to the kennel with her littermates, but that will not help her recovery.

Update 8-January

Injured puppy now with Kathy for special care and a more than a bit of puppy spoiling. She sleeps right next to Kathy.

…or in Ken’s lap.

Kathy even has a puppy pack to take the injured puppy for walks

Off they go as a team, Kathy & Lani
Visiting Kathy’s students at the high school

Sunday Morning 4-Jan-2026

The wickedness of Trump and his confederates feels far away from Thundering Paws Farm this *very cold* Sunday Morning with the full moon setting in the west as the sun rises in the east. On midwinter mornings the sun does not the patio until after 9 a.m.

America’s Moral Abandonment

The ‘wickedness‘ of Trump
…becomes our own

“It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.”
~ Carl Jung

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
~ Confucius