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There are five new photograps on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photograps on the Photo page, starting from number one. Getting low on photographs again.

Thornton.

Blarney Castle,Southern Ireland. Lindsay.

View from opposite the stone wheel at The Peak National Park in The Peak District. Karen.

My latest addition to my garden lovely grey squirrel. Bec.

This is Strav. She is in foal, she is off to the stud this week to prepare for the birth. Karen.

As you can see by the photograph Thornton is settling in well and getting on with Tass and Kye. We still wouldn’t trust the Dogs to be on their own for to long with the lamb, or we could well find a pile of bones instead of Thornton. On saying that, Tass jumps into the blocked of area we have made for Thornton as she did with her Puppies, to make sure he is alright. We hope it is for that reason and not sizing him up for a meal.

Thornton has the same blocked off area in our washroom as did Tass when she had the Puppies. We let him out for part of the day to run around with Tass and Kye, they will soon get use to him. Thornton has got use the Dogs, he reckons hes a dog and not a Sheep. Other than the the first day he hasn’t seen any Sheep, his only experience of them was being butted away when he tried to feed from his Mother. We may try to let him run with the other Lambs one day next week to see how he gets on with them. I don’t think that he will be accepted, but what ever he will have to come back in to the Farm House for his bottle feeds.

Thornton, Tass and Kye were running around together the Farm Yard this afternoon, when our new Holiday Guest saw him, they all liked him. One Lady asked if we are going to eat him. We wont do that, we are sure that he will finish up being a pet Lamb and will go for walks down the valley with Tass and Kye.

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When we came down this morning we found that Jade…

When we came down this morning we found that Jade our fourteen year old Springer Spaniel had died in the night. We had intended to take her to the Veterinary this morning, half expecting to have had to put her to sleep. We nearly decided to take her to the Veterinary last night, but the journey to their open surgery was a distance away, and it would not have been fair on her. The local surgery is little more than a mile away and would have been open this morning

Jade had been ill on and off for the past few months with the problem that she had with her epiglottis that was making her choke. The Veterinary had told us that it would not be advisable to operate on her at her age, although it would be eventually kill her. She has also had a growth that was very large, again inoperable. In spite of of her illnesses she was able to still get about the farm slowly. Even yesterday she managed to get herself outside and lay in the porch, maybe she knew that it would be for the last time. We have buried her by the lake with Cass.

Without any hesitation I would say that Jade dieing in the night was preferable than having to have her put to sleep this morning. She looked very peaceful when we found her with Tass lying by her side. Tass knew that Jade was dieing last night. We found her pawing at Jade trying to get her up, as she had done with the Puppies when she was with them. Jade was responding to her by wagging her tail. Even Kye has been paying more attention to Jade over the past week by licking round her when she was lying out. Jade dieing with Tass and Kye being there, seems to have made it easier for them. They both seem to forget and look for her, but soon get over it.

Jade was a very kind and faithful dog. She had never to our knowledge growled at any one. She would at any puppies that were in the house. She couldn’t be done with puppies, although she had a two litters herself and was a very good mother who produced very nice Puppies. The only trouble with Jade was everyone who knew her, liked her and she would take advantage of it, by scrounging food from people. We called her a user. If a holiday quest gave her food, they would be Jades best mate. When she went missing you knew where she could be found, with whoever had been feeding her. She would put on so much weight that we needed to tell people that under no circumstances was they to feed her tit bits. None of them really took any notice.

We nearly lost Jade when she was a puppy. Two walkers came through Denbury with a Springer Spaniel on a lead. Without me realising Jade followed them. It was over an hour later that I realised that she was missing, and thought that it was possible the walkers had stolen her. I drove around the footpaths like a maniac, through places that even my Landrover had a job to negotiate, I eventually realised that I should go to any car parks in the vicinity of the farm, that walkers may have parked their car. The first one had a car parked in it. As I was about to go to the next one, I saw the walkers. I waited to ask them if they had seen Jade. As they approached the women was hiding Jade under her coat, obviously trying to steal her. When I told them that it was my dog the man got very aggressive and went to hit me. I was a lot more aggressive and very easily got Jade back. But what I will always remember Jade for was that she was the best ratter that I have ever come across, when ever I screamed she knew that I had seen a rat, and more often than not she would get it.

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Tass is a different dog than she was before she…

Tass is a different dog than she was before she had the puppies. Having Ky with her has brought out her old self, playing and running around with Ky, as she did with her Mother Cass, before she died two year ago. Jade has never been very playful with Tass, I don’t think that she really likes her, they don’t argue but avoid each other, although when Tass first had the puppies she would go to see Jade, as if to tell her that she wanted her to look at her new arrivals, Jade just ignored her. Ky wont be ignored, she makes it a point to go to Jade and lets her know she ain’t gonna be ignored and is going to stay in her face, until Jade acknowledges her. Jade always does, but just to get rid of her, or maybe she pretends and likes the fuss.

As Tass was taught by her Mother Cass, Ky is doing the same with Tass, Tass is showing her what and what not to do. They are out and about with us when ever we are working around the farm, It seems whatever Tass does, Ky wants to do the same, and is starting to get it right, with Tass’s help. When we go up to the muck heap after cleaning the stables, Tass has been made to walk by the side of the Quad and Trailer, in case any vehicles come down our driveway and don’t see her, Ky started by walking at the side of Tass, within a couple of days she was doing the same, now she is the first one waiting. One part she hasn’t grasped, is that you don’t stand in front of a pitchfork load of dung ready to thrown on the muck heap, she seems to be in your face just as you are throwing it up and she gets smothered from head to toe. We have to push over large round bales of hay from a high pile. Tass knows when we are to do it, and makes sure that Ky leaves the barn with her, so that the bales do not fall on her.

After work its dog cleanup time. Dirty muddy dogs is an understatement, the mud hangs from their underside, every day after we finish work, maybe even twice a day, it is hose off time, cold days are not excluded, Cass, Tass and Jade have all, allways tried creeping away to avoid it, Ky hated it for the first week, now she just stands waiting and does not move until the hosing finishes.

Tass and Ky are very close, they sleep and eat with each other and just don’t stop playing. Tass can be a bit rough at times but Ky will normally start the rough play, by running full onto her. You may have seen them on the webcams down the valley. We bred Tass hoping to get a good friend for Tass knowing that Jade wont be here for too much longer. We got every thing we wanted.