I have suspected for a long time that Drifter really isn't the world's greatest livestock guardian dog. And tonight, when I found a...

There is some weather in which I just won't walk. Some adverse conditions are obvious. Lightning and extreme heat, for example, are...

Both of us were seriously overdue for a haircut. Scotch got his this past Monday. Much like the last visit to the groomer, (all of six,...

The first heavy snowfall of the winter arrived today at sunrise. It was Christmas-card snow: feathery, hushed and beautiful. It was the...

Here's another one for Tassie's brag bag. My mom and I went Christmas shopping yesterday. Naturally, we were going for the dogs. It was...

Tassie, Karen, and I have been off track lately. Literally. Between the Thanksgiving holiday, uncooperative weather, people not always...

Generally speaking, training dogs is a long-haul operation. It takes time. This is especially true if, like me, you are obsessed with...

Butterscotch embarrassed me last week. Socialization opportunities continue to be few and far between for him. My dogs and I are still...

They are finally here. Twenty bales of prairie hay, neatly stacked in our barn hunt arena. Dad dropped them off just this afternoon, and...

As mentioned in an earlier post, it is not easy to wrangle five teenage goats. That's something Gem has been discovering in the past few...

Yesterday I sold my senior buck, Petra. It really was time. Petra has been here four or five years, and he's really contributed all that...

The preparations for barn hunt are in full swing, and they have now happily overflowed to include yet another eager dog. I have two rats...

With the door indefinitely closed on obedience matches and trials for the near future, I'm exploring a few new sports to keep the dogs...

You never know what will happen on a dog walk. Maybe I've mentioned that before, but what happen today surprised even me. We had just...

Unhappy news today. My hopes of doing practice shows with my dogs, which had skyrocketed a few weeks ago, were shattered. Just this past...

Little by little, the dogs and I continue to shake off the coronavirus doldrums. We haven't yet attended a practice show, but I have set...

I never intended to keep Sakke. For one thing, she is a Minty/Epic kid, a cross that I wasn't terribly keen on. There were just things in...

I knew something was going on before I even stepped out of the house this morning. As I sent several dogs out the back door and leaned...

Ever since the Covid-19 situation happened, the dogs and I haven't done much. For starters, this past spring and most of the summer...

Sometimes it's really hard to be a big boy. Cognac found that out for himself today. It was another milestone in the life of a baby buck....