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Month: May 2011
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Today we put the horses out to graze for the first time this season, and were they ever a happy bunch. It's been a long, long winter here — unusually so, everyone tells us — so we were a few weeks behind on grass growth. But finally the grass was tall enough, and thick enough,…
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Our local supplier of potatoes has run out of their stored supply from last year's harvest, and the new crop won't be ready until October. So we're now switching to rice as the carbohydrate source for the dogs' home-cooked meals. I took that photo this evening of a fresh batch of rice for their dinner…
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I was out spreading manure this past weekend, and on one of my last runs late Sunday evening, the beaters (or paddles) on the back of the spreader started flinging all kinds of wet poo towards the cab. I was looking back through the rear window, keeping an eye on the manure load as it…
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The apple trees are all bursting with blossoms now — a truly gorgeous sight. We have probably about two dozen apple trees in three different orchards on the property, all producing delicious fruit. The trees have been "let go" for at least a couple of decades and are in need of substantial pruning, and the…
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Ellen M., the board-certified veterinary internal medicine specialist who adopted Snuggles from us last fall, emailed us at the end of March with some disturbing news: Snuggles had a melanoma cancer in her jaw and would be undergoing surgery in a few days. A board-certified veterinary surgeon trained in oncology was going to do the…
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No, it wasn't Friday afternoon when we had to call our equine vet, Dr. Steve Levine. It was worse — Saturday afternoon. I was out feeding the horses and noticed blind Bo's right eye was closed shut and tears were streaming down his face. I struggled to get his eyelid open, but when I did,…
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We just rolled out our updated website with our new Rolling Dog Farm name. It's at RollingDogFarm.org. Our existing RollingDogRanch.org website will automatically "roll over" or re-direct to the new site. Alayne and I will still be able to receive emails addressed to our old RDR email accounts, but we now also have email accounts…
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I took this photo of little Avery this morning. He's been doing just great since coming home from surgery on Friday — especially when his cone is off! We've started removing it when we're around and can supervise to see if he begins pawing at the sutures. We could already tell this weekend that he…
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I took our new arrival, blind Avery, over to Burlington, Vermont yesterday to see some specialists. First was a stop at our internist, Dr. Bryan Harnett, at Vermont Veterinary Internal Medicine, for a look at his heart, and then in the afternoon we saw our ophthalmologist, Dr. Sarah Hoy at Vermont Veterinary Eye Care. Although…
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Yes, another blind Beagle from Georgia! That's who was in the van with blind Louie on Friday. This is Avery — his name had been "Chopper," which no one here liked. Widget had always wanted to have a resident Beagle named Avery, so she got her choice and Chopper got a new name. This little…
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