Celebritity Look Alikes...

Speedy, Chewbacca

Sandy, Nicole Kidman

Jasper Belle, Garfield

Duke, Arnold Schwarzenegger

The truth about Sadie...

Last week I learned from the Willardson's(previous owners) that Sadie had puppies with her brother. Remember her black puppies? Them. The Willardson's during that time also had a black lab also her brother and they had puppies together. Now that is bad. Maybe not that bad for animals...but still...it is really bad.

Platoon of Four update.

Everybody in the Platoon of Four is alive except Sadie. Sadie died in July of congenital heart failure. Duke is all alone in the labrador kennel and is doing all right. Winter is coming in a month and he is getting ready for it. Since Sadie died, Duke has been more obedient than ever, he would come to me when I call him instead of following Sadie around. He would stay in the yard. Sadie did what she liked to do during the last hour of her life, walking. She walked then couldn't walk anymore and nose started bleeding. She was very skinny also so that means she didn't eat very good. I was wondering why she was getting skinny during the last month of her life. So we put her asleep to end her suffering. It was for the best. Sadie was a very good lovable dog. Speedy is still doing his job as a hearing dog for my sister, Becky. He's doing better though. He also went on a big trip to North Carolina in July to see his aunt Karen and cousin Foster. I wasn't there but I heard that he constantly played with Foster during the whole visit. Speedy also went to the beach, I saw pictures of him and he had sand all over him. He did not like to get wet though. Speedy also flew in a big plane on Becky's lap and they tell me he would bark every time the seatbelt ring rang. Sandy, good old Sandy, has lost a little bit of weight and feels a lot healthier. She is the joy in the house. She likes to play with Duke but not Speedy, she would run with Duke in the backyard. Then at last, the mongrel cat, Jasper Belle, is still meowing like crazy. Found a place to sleep, out on the field by my neighbor's house right against the fence and under the apple tree. He goes out at night to catch mice and grasshoppers. He loves his job. He then come and visits once a while when Duke and Speedy are not around. Well, that's the update for The Platoon of Four. (It's been since April!)

(sighs), I don't know what to do with them...

Sadie and Duke killing a deer.


This is Duke's first deer and Sadie's tenth(Sadie has been clean for 6 years). One and a half week ago we were at Black Hill hiking around and I didn't think there would be deer there. I guess the whole thing is my fault because I took them there. Yep, they killed an innocent deer and we left the deer all knawed off and still alive lieing there. We got out of there soon as possible just in case no one saw us. I came home so sad and upset. I felt bad for the deer and upset with Sadie and Duke. Maybe it's just a natural thing for them, that's way dogs are I guess. Sadie and Duke are not alone, one time I talked to Niki Christiansen(Niki Gordon) and she said her neighborhood dogs had killed some deer before too around that area(by the Canyon Road). It's a sad thing but it's just what dogs do and you can get in real big trouble about it. I got in trouble with some farmers and residents their back in the Sadie days and I haven't took her up there ever since. I took them to Black Hill all summer last year so I guess I learned that I shouldn't take them there in the spring time. Just wait until the deer are in the deep mountains this year then I will take them there.

Tour de Dog

Sadie and Duke a runnin'.

Bad Cat Day Holiday today...

Jasper Belle doesn't want to talk about his nightmare today so I will speak for him. Jasper got in another cat fight not too long ago and his wound was just getting all pussy and worst so I took him to the vet this morning. It was so bad that I had to leave the cat there to get knocked out and have a little operation. So the vet drained the wound out AND neutered the cat. Yes, neutered him! It's true. So, the cat is not a boy anymore, poor Jasper Belle. Hedilous said to come back a week or two to neuter him after the wound is healed. But he did it today anyways while the cat was there because he wasn't sick or anything. So everything is done and overwith. I hope the neuter thing is guaranteed to keep the cat from getting into fights. Gee I hope so. This is the second time it's happened this winter and I saw Jasper Belle fighting with another cat before work once. The cat wasn't too happy today because he has no balls. Poor Jasper Belle. There was another cat there was already knocked out because she just got spayed. Then a lady came in with her cat in a kennel and just had the same thing as Jasper Belle and has been in a fight too but the wound was on the tummy. I am sure that cat got neutered today too. Then I went to work and the first thing my boss told me when I got there, the cat in our shop today.....is sick. There was throw up and diarrea all over the shop. Then I told my boss about this morning then I told him, "today is a really bad day for all the cats". Just remember February 27th is Cat Bad Day Holiday.

SANPETE STORY

I ASKED WAYNE PETERSEN if he were a kinykinnick dane or a kelso dane and he said he was a friday dane.......and then he told me the story. his grandfather was going over the mountain for some coal and a kelso olsen asked him where he was headed.....for some coal he said, but on a sunday????and the petersen said"oh is this a sunday?, i thought today was fridayand from that moment on he was known as a friday dane