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Tomorrow morning we say goodbye to a member of our family.... This is Hanna, our 7 1/2 year old Rottweiler who was recently diagnosed with a synovial cell sarcoma, an aggressive form of cancer in dogs. It is in her elbow and likely metastasized to other organs and she is now having extreme...

I haven't been on much lately because we have had a pretty rough couple of months around here. We bought our current home late last fall because we loved the property and although we knew we wanted to do some upgrades over time, we had no idea what we were in store for. In the last few months it...

I know some have posted photos of their pasture shelters in the past but I can't remember if anyone had something for their minis, or big ones for that matter, that are EASY to assemble and inexpensive. We have had so many problems (read: big $$$) with our new home that we need to limit the...

I just got a call from our trainer where we sent our mares to be bred back to our stallion who is in training there. She just called me to say she had to rush one of our mares and her nursing baby to her vet's because mom is colicking! :no: This is our palomino pinto mare Splash. I can't...

Last night when I went to the barn I noticed our kids' pony was stretched out like a park horse in the barn and as I watched she started rocking back and forth on her front and back legs. Uh oh! Not a good sign. :no: Pony is around 30 years old, 12.2h and has really starting to show her age...

I went to the barn because I was just itching to find out what was underneath that hair on our new perlino filly. I started with the head and neck but it began to get really breezy in the afternoon so I stopped there. We still have some pretty cool nights here. My son was such a trooper...

The filly is shedding out naturally in this photo. What are these white hairs on her face and chin? They were not there at birth but my friend said they are there now and wanted me to see them before she clipped her. Sire and dam show no roaning and she has no other white hairs on her body.

Just in the nick of time too. Our Missy had her foal last night at 12:30am, a perlino filly, out of our buckskin White Russian son "Incredible". We were praying she would have it before we left on our trip next week so we didn't have to take her to NW Mare Services to foal her out and she didn't...

Our maiden mare Missy who is bred to our stallion Incredible, is due to foal anyday. The big kicker is my family is leaving on a 2 week vacation on May 16th for northern Canada. I need good thoughts and prayers and all your fingers crossed that she will foal before we leave. Before you get too...

Tonight I was just turning off the tv and heading to bed around 10pm. The kids were all asleep and of course, my husband is out of town. I have not had a good night sleep since he left three days ago because the coyotes have been near the house and horse pastures three nights straight. They...

It all started innocently enough...my 4yo Kate opening presents Then a little excitement... Followed by doing a little jig singing, "Oh yeah, I got the present I wanted...oh yeah, the present I wanted" Oh and Liz (Nootka), check out the writing on the hat. It says Astoria! :bgrin Then...

These are photos of the outside of the package of my Christmas present from my husband. Since it was too big for him to wrap easily he decided to draw something on the box instead. That's my man! : As you remember, I have been really worried about my minis with the coyotes and cougars roaming...

My husband's friend from college (also a dentist-maybe that says something right there came to stay for two days. He lives on the coast which is 5+ hours away so we don't see him much. He came in, got the tour of our new house, then looked outside and said, "Oh, are those sheep?" Now, this guy...

I just had the vet out because our aging pony appeared to have an allergic skin reaction to something at our new place. Horror of horrors, it is from ticks! She has them all around the base of her mane and likely elsewhere too. Now that we live in an area with a large deer population and lots of...

...your family life growing up. I am an only child and, although I imagine I had a lot of opportunities others might not growing up (i.e. taking a friend on all my family vacations), I always feel like I missed out on something. I know I am missing out now as an adult and would give anything...

My friend was here yesterday and took some photos of our pastures so I wanted to share. We are still fencing pastures but three are done with three more to go. Here are some photos she took in the morning. It was really cold with a little morning mist, but the sun was nice. I hope they aren't...

My mini girls including our sweet "Honey" and our Arab riding mare, Misty are finally home! They were boarded shortly before our September photo shoot and the plan was to bring them home right after but then we got the offer on our house, put in an offer on the other property and the ball was in...

With all this talk about our horses and how to protect them from predators, you all know I have been right up there in asking what to do and what is the best guard animal, etc. Well, I got this wacky idea and have been testing it for about a week now. I told one person, ONE person. Well, that...

LGDs, Llamas and Donkeys This was a pretty informative article for me since I have been trying to sort through the options for guard animals based on the predators we have here. I know others have asked recently and thought this website might offer some help. The article references sheep...

We have just completed fencing our second pasture at our new house and were going to pickup our mini mares from our trainer's this weekend where they are being boarded during the fencing process. I received a phone call from our trainer early this morning that one of our fillies had shown signs...