Month: January 2013

  • Yes, that very large dog giving me a smooch is Aaron, our second Maremma livestock guardian dog. And he is, at 8 months of age, still very much a puppy! In early December, when we last weighed him, he clocked in at 104 pounds, and he's grown quite a bit since then. Over on the…

  • Our terrific groomer, Lori Fillion, came out as scheduled on Friday to groom all ye little ones, including new arrival Scamp. What a difference some grooming can do! That's a photo above that I took this afternoon of him, still sporting his post-grooming bandana.  Here he is with Alayne and Lori on Friday: Followed up…

  • Melinda Jones, who writes a lifestyle blog called Super Much Love, emailed us over the holidays to say she was coming out with a line of innovative and beautifully designed note cards, Read Between The Lines, and would like to donate a portion of each sale to the Rolling Dog Farm. It seems Melinda's three-legged…

  • And now for something entirely different! This isn't a post about a new recipe I just found, although there are some very tasty chicken and squash recipes out there. No, this is about what we feed our chickens.  I've mentioned before that one of the many reasons for the move to the New Hampshire farm…

  • Bentley wasn't the only dog to arrive last week. Also on the van was this adorable fellow, Scamp, who came from the same rescue group in Louisiana who sent us Bentley. Scamp had been picked up as a stray by the animal control agency in Shreveport, and left unclaimed at the shelter.  A very nice…

  • This little guy arrived a couple of days ago — a very sweet Yorkie named Bentley. In late November he was scheduled to be euthanized in a Longview, Texas shelter when a rescue group in Shreveport, Louisiana, pulled him just before his date. The group, Becky's Bridge, has sent us a number of disabled dogs…

  • Here's someone you haven't seen in a while … our wobbling, dancing girl Soba. I took these photos on Sunday afternoon. Soba is the one who was born with cerebellar hypoplasia, which means her cerebellum — the part of the brain that helps with motor skills and balance — wasn't fully developed. Soba came to…

  • Alayne took these photos of Widget cruising through the snow in the front yard yesterday. Despite her ground-hugging clearance, Widget loves being a little snowplow, as we've highlighted before. The other dogs stay close to the house in the area we've shoveled out, but Widget will dive into the snow and be the only one…

  • I took this photo of Wilbur on Christmas Eve. We looked at him that night, dozing on his pile of fleece blankets on the living room floor, and marveled at how his life had changed since this time last year. It was a few days after Christmas 2011 — in the middle of the week…