This little 10 week-old female pup from the Sue x Ormond Mirk litter is bright, alert, focused and joyful. A 4 on the 5pt power-intensity scale. Never misses a chance to join the adults in the field. This is what I breed for. She is staying.

This from PBS news today, 17-September. Europe is in trouble. It is losing its beautiful climate and water resources. The USA is in trouble too, but it is in denial and spoliation.

America quit the international climate accords for a second time under Trump. The Trump administration rolls back incentives for green energy, defunds alternative energy projects and punishes climate advocacy.

The United States is guilty of moral failure. By abandoning climate action, it is perpetrating a crime against every human and animal on the planet … and those yet to be born.

Big Boy Laddie (né Tor) joined Rich (retired senior AA pilot) and Carla (retired executive) on their farm in NH this weekend. Rich wrote on Day 3:

“Quiet through the night, goes outside in the morning to do his business. I’d say he made a quick house training transition.”

“He is exactly the sort of Collie we wanted.”

This pup will never lack for anything. Rich and Carla are 100% devoted to this pup: they adore him.

My miracle pup who survived the worst and came back fighting left today for a new beginning with Stacey, Ben and their children, Mack & Clare, who have a blueberry farm here in Vermont, Waterman Orchards. Could not have asked for a better match for my heart pup. My puppy –now named ‘Pippin’– needed a family …and a farm!

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Dot joins WPI scientist Jaime for her new life in central Massachusetts

Saying good-bye to littermates, Jet and Rhys

At 9 weeks, the three remaining keystone cops of the Sue x Max litter are showing their individuality. All four are 4’s on the 5 point power-intensity scale. Ideal for working dogs.

…and two pushy males.

An 8 week-old pup from a line breeding around Jenkins’ Jock is showing signs of strong eye.

This little fellow is recovering from a case of bacterial pneumonia that killed a littermate and almost killed him. Puppies with developing immune systems are vulnerable creatures, and it can be hard to spot these things early (enough). The lucky (and almost unlucky) pup in the photo is on 3 antibiotics, fluids and 24-hour monitoring. In 2 days time, he has moved from critical to stable to improving.

The veterinarian wrote:

“The way these infections almost always work is that a virus comes through and damages the protections in the nasopharynx, allowing bacteria to enter the lung and prosper, leading to your very sick puppy.  In good conditions that have low stress and plenty of air, many animals fight off the viral infection, maintain their defenses and do not get bacterial pneumonia.

Viruses to the many, bacteria to the unlucky few.”

The sadness at losing a beautiful pup is tempered by the joy of one who will recover and lead a rich, full life.

This bit of NAZI propaganda art is eerily, shockingly, appallingly, disgustingly familiar. The SA (Sturmabteilung) were Hitler’s the shock troops, a (white, nationalist) paramilitary organization that supported / enforced his consolidation of power –through fear, brutality and all forms of intimidation.

For Lenin, it was the Cheka. For Mao, it was the Red Guards. Same playbook, the common man ‘stabbed in the back’. Cults of personality rising in a weakened state and society. The difference with the NAZI’s and Trump is the ethnic component: foreigners ‘poisoning’ American blood.