We celebrated dad's B-day in Plano last night. It was a good time (although I was a good bit under the weather) and we even got to see Bill, Barb & Caroline for a few moments. This video is the moment of splendor.
On the way home, we went to pick up a free puppy who is destined to become our livestock gaurdian dog (if he survives through the day in the goat pen with some wary/protective goats.) He is a dog bred to survive out guarding sheep in the mountains, so he has plenty of fur and looks like a little rolly-polly fur-ball. It was a good day for free Craigslist scores. We had also picked up a free rabbit cage while we were in Plano earlier that day. By the way, this brings us up to two puppies since Jessica brought one home from the Canton trade days on Saturday. She also brought home three chickens, which leads to an updating of the "stats" below.
Total cats = 2Total dogs = 2
Total sheep = 4
Total cattle =1
Total horses = 1
Total goats = 4
Total foul = 3
Beehives = 3
Wasp stings = 3
Trucks = 1
2 comments:
First of all congratulations with your Dad's B-day.
As for your fur-ball:
as I understand, it’s good practice to keep a puppy that is destined to guard livestock in the same pen or stable with the animals it must protect later. In Spain for example, they do that with the Mastin, a colossal dog. This makes the dogs think they are a cow or a sheep and they'll stay in the field with their "own kind". Wolves for example would think twice before attacking a herd with a mastin present.
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