We're using the blog on our new WordPress website for new posts, so please head there to read updates on our animals:  Rolling Dog Farm Blog We will maintain the TypePad blog as a living archive of our past posts.  

The latest blog post is over at our new blog here.

We just today rolled out a new website design at rollingdogfarm.org using a WordPress template. This is a “responsive” design that will automatically reformat the website for smartphones, iPads and other devices. It also makes it easy for me to edit the website myself and not have to ask our wonderful website designer, Amy Austin, to…

And now for a post from the farming side of the farm. I took the photo this weekend in the goat barn. That's our Alpine dairy doe Twink, letting her two kids use her as a step-ladder to get to the hay feeder. The first thing goat kids learn to climb is their moms, who…

For a bonus Friday post, I thought I'd share this funny music video our veterinary cardiologist, Dr. Don Brown, sent me. It's probably funny only for those of us who have endured this ridiculous, never-ending winter, but even those of you in sunnier climates might enjoy it. This comes from the Winnipeg Free Press, where…

If the early bird gets the worm, the early geese get … the frozen pond. We had two very confused geese land on the pond on Thursday morning, only to discover it was still mostly ice. They kept walking around it, not sure what to do. I could imagine the one goose saying to the…

I was in Burlington yesterday with three special girls — Darla, Widget and Aurora — for a full day of veterinary medicine. Darla was scheduled for her double surgery … our ophthalmologist would be doing a laser procedure on her left eye, which had developed glaucoma, and our surgeon would be removing a small mast…

Posting that photo on Monday of Travis jumping the gate reminded me that I had yet to post some photos I took a couple of months ago of Aurora showing us how she deals with the gate. Like Travis, if we don't get to the gate first, no problem … off to the side she…

I took this photo a couple of days ago of Travis jumping the gate at the end of one of the ramps. His normal play yard is behind the house, but after his dental surgery we moved him to the front yard for exercise so we could keep a better eye on him during his…

Just a few hours after I posted that last blog about Darla keeping Travis and Tanner at bay, Alayne managed to get the photos that had eluded us for the past few weeks. By shooting from inside the house, she captured the moment without interrupting the action. In the shot above, that's Darla in the…