Pony loving video

This is for all my friends that grew up and had a pony. I have so been there done that.

Earning her keep

Like all farms we have a shop cat. We have gone through a couple of cats. We are not cat people therefore we like the cats that are wild and hide from us. Saves them from the dogs too. Our new cat has gone from wild the very tame and loves to be scratched. She greets us when we come into the shop and never goes outside because that is where the scary dogs live. Today when I went into the shop she didn't follow me she sat and stared at the wall.

trying to tell me something

Hello stupid human look up

"what is it lassie"

From a person who is scared of birds. Bats are even scarier. I am going to have to pull Kyle off the baler the come and do something about this situation. Not to be confused with "The Situation"

Survival of the fitest or not !!!!

Recently I started feeding raw every couple days. I found it easier for me to butcher my cull ewes for dog food than try to sell them.  So Jerry and I came up with a deal he would deal with the messy stuff and we would share the meat. Turns out I am the 98% of raw feeders that really can't deal with the killing, blood and guts. And honestly I do not consider my self a raw feeder. Raw is a treat for my dogs. When I go on the road they will get kibble and the majority of the week the get kibble.

Rob attacks it like a pro. Bones stripped to nothing in minutes. I am pretty sure Rob has had to survive in the wild at sometime in the past or a previous life. He eats everything like his survival depends on it. The rest of the dogs are the same. Even Isla who is notorious for not eating. I think she is just to bitchy not to eat it. Just in case the other dogs get to it. 

Then we have Craig's Kennel

This bone has been in his kennel for over three hours. He would basically starve if he lived in the wild.

so ashamed for his species

But still the pretty boy with have come to know and love.

Random catching up

Sorry all it has been more than a week since my last blog. I have been enjoying my two weeks off until my next trial. I have been waging a war with thistles. They seem to be growing incredibly fast this year. I bought my self a new toy to help win the war.

This little red sports car  pulls behind the ranger and does an awesome job.  Cuts right through the thickest patch of thistles.

Yesterday Kyle and I bought some more sheep. 13 Dorper ewe lambs and 2 ram lambs. My plan is to build a stronger flock and weed out the riff raff. 

Two ram lambs plus a runt ram lamb(who is going to lose his man hood today)
Risk and Strider are also losing their manhood today

Ewe lamb

Ewe lambs

I have been working my dogs as much as I can. We have three trials in a row coming up. In the last couple of days Rob has been looking spectacular. Craig has also decided he would like to be a sheep dog. He has move out of the training field and out to the big field for more training. He is not a natural out runner but with Isla being his mother that is fine with me. Meg is doing good as well. We are thinking of changing here name. Whenever I am giving Craig shit for something Meg thinks I am talking to her.
Finally I wanted to post this you tube. A friend posted it on Facebook and it is too funny. Enjoy

Trip north

What a trip it feels like there was nothing we didn't do. First on the list was not bringing a map. Just assuming my GPS would work all over the world was the begging of the miss haps. Apparently there is no life north of Edmonton.  What should have been a three hour trip from High Prairie to Dawson creek turn out to be over four hours. To be honest I lost track of time by the second or third wrong turn. Jenny and I left on Wednesday to head up to Lisa's in Athabasca spent the night there. Thursday we started our journey. Planning on stopping to visit Louise and Eric just outside of High Prairie. Louise and Eric is where I got Rob from last year. This time we wanted to stop for a visit and see the guardian dogs. Louise and Eric breed sarplaninacs.

I got to see a son of Rob. He was too cute holding his dish in his mouth.

Finally after hours of driving we arrived at Dennis and Jean Gelling's place just outside of Dawson Creek, BC. The trial field was a nice rolling terrain framed by trees. Each day we ran a different course. The first day we ran to the left. 

Day two

The first day I was surprised by how well my dogs worked. Rob place 5th and Isla a couple of spots behind him. Each day the top three dogs qualified for the double lift on Sunday. Rob missed it by two points. Day two the sheep got the best of my dogs by breaking back to the set out. Rob actually got the sheep off and he brought them through the trees but I was impatient and had already left the post to go and help him.

Dennis and Jean worked their butts off setting sheep and making sure everything was running smoothly. I will definitely be back. Friday night a pig was roasted for the handlers dinner. It was awesome.

This was the exhaust hill from hell the sheep refused just to run up the hill. No they would try to bust through to the trees. By the time you got to the top you were exhausted. Then you had another couple hundred yards to the pen. Most of us did a fine job. Some handlers lost a single sheep in the trees now and then.

Dawson Creek also happens to be the beginning of the Alaska highway. Mile 0 happens to be right in the middle of an intersection. Jenny and Lisa braved it for a photo op.

Our last adventure of this trip was to visit Karen Ramstead and her Siberian husky sled dog kennel. Karen has run the iditarod many times and was happy to take us for a ride. She is also good friends with Lisa. Up at the crack of dawn to beat the heat of the day. We hooked up a team to the quad and went for a run. After the team run we each got a turn of our own. Two dogs hooked to a scooter. It was scary fast but really fun.

Some new additions

Finally some more calves. We have had two calves in the last week. Our first calf arrived three months ago and he has been dieing to have some buddies to play with. We were beginning to think we had a bad bull. Not the case he was just lazy.

As you can see the calf in the back is much bigger than the newborns. 

The other new addition is my new dog. Meg arrived from Virginia last week. So far she is doing great. gets along with every and is listening to me well on sheep. 

Thanks to Christine Henry for letting me use her pictures of Meg.

Calgary pictures

Stole some pictures from facebook

Lara and I with our new best friend
Photo by Lisa Wright

Moving the bitches

Photo by 

Lisa I think

Jumbotron in the finals. 

Photo by Lisa or Kristi.

Not sure.