It’s stilll not On The Road; we cheated and used the form again. It’s looking like there will be one more installment from J. R. after this, with the kitties! As it is with a good book, I will be sad to come to the end of his stories and photos. Maybe we can convince him to write up some more, after he takes a break!
With John Lewis passing from this earth, we are blessed to have J.R.’s lovely stories and photos, and a post filled with love. I am sure this will be a balm for all our souls today.
~WaterGirl
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Life with J R and Family: It’s a Dog’s Life on the Farm
by J R in WV
After Watergirl and I talked about pet photos, and I decided to do multiple sets, that first one really turned emotional for me. We really love the critters on the farm. At one time back in the ’80s we had 9 cats (after an accidental pregnancy and successful pregnancy, back before digital cameras) and 2 or 3 dogs. In a 4 room Jenny Lind farmhouse!!!
This one is also emotional, but all different emotions. These critters are happy residents right now, all rescued puppies. I’ll do one with the two current cats pretty soon… that seemed to be the natural once I had more photos than would fit into the On The Road submission tool.
Right now we have 3 dogs, one is senior older dog, two are “twins” from a litter of 10 dogs born to friends one county over.
Senior dog is a big ole white Lab mix and the junior dogs are a matched pair of black dogs with white markings from friends’ goat dairy. When they came here they had never been inside a house, but they were able to pretend to be adult and responsible… briefly.
This thread is all about the dawgs currently in charge of the household up our hollow.
BooBoo and CooCoo at their first home, a goat dairy in the next county run by two good retired friends, who primarily make French-style soft goat cheese, not for sale. Neighbor had a young bitch dog who as is the way in the country got in the family way, at which point her first home kicked her out. Since the sire was their watch dog, a half-Great Pyrenees and half Lab nix, they took mom in. Mom was an Aussie cattle-dog with some blue- heeler in her, judging from Boo-Boo’s front legs and belly. They are about 8 weeks old in this April spring photo, born February last year IIRC.
They grew up in the dairy farmyard, and had never been inside a building beside the barn until A brought them over to our house, They suffer from extreme notion sickness in a car, but that was OK as their Subaru is equipped for hauling goats around. They are quite professional about everything, keep detailed records of their goats’ production numbers and breeding, and make any money to be had by selling much of the annual kid production to other goat dairies.
They didn’t learn to ask to come inside for weeks, would just stand outside the door looking all abandoned and sad, until someone noticed their presence and let them in. I guess they were unsure they really were going to be House dogs for a while there.
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