And Then There Were Fifteen....

Well, for a few minutes anyway! One Dirty Diva accidentally flew over the fence while I was changing their water! They all took off for the opposite side of their yard when I walked up to them, a couple of them flying, and she flew right over the fence! She looked a little stunned, out in the tall grass, and went directly back to the flock, but she was stuck on the other side of the fence! She bumped into it a time or two and I went about dealing with their water and feeding them to see if she might make her way back over. All the while she stayed right next to the flock and in the flock, only separated by the fence - they kind of looked at her like they knew something wasn't quite right, but they weren't sure what it was. She continued to do whatever it was they were doing, but when they all started to abandon her for the fresh pool water, I went around and lifted her back over the fence.

It was definitely interesting! They truly are one unit, the flock. They only thing she knew to do was to get back near her sisters! :) Even if she couldn't quite make it back to them. She could have made a mad dash for the creek and showed off her freedom, but she didn't. Oh, and the black lab was nearby and saw her and left her alone. That made me happy!

The Ducklings Are Here!!!

We got the call this morning from the post office....come pick up your box of peeps! :)

Andy puppy was excited to eat....I mean MEET them....

And just like any newborn when they get tired, they pass out! I thought we killed them because they would just kind of drop! Nope, they are ok. Just tired babies. Now I will be doing middle of the night "breathing checks" on 16 tiny ducklings....

And like other newborns, they love food! They caught right on to eating and drinking. And they LOVE water!

My youngest daughter has already named three of them. I have no clue how she will ever tell them apart....

But one thing is for sure....it is DEFINITELY love.....

Got Skunk? We Got Skunk!!

Isn't that the saddest little face? The dogs went with the Captain to cut fire wood like they always do. The dogs stirred up a skunk. Andy got SKUNKED! This must be our year for farm firsts. The mice...and now this. :) LOL

So my husband is going "Do we have any tomato juice?" No. So he says "Do you think pizza sauce will work?" One of the reasons I love him so much...he always makes me smile! :) Uhhh...no honey, I think that would only add the problem, because it would be a mixture between bad skunk smell and good pizza smell which cannot be a good combination AND the white dog would be stained red.

So we looked online and found a recipe that worked really well and didn't leave us with a permamant negative imprint of skunk smell + food smell. 1 quart peroxide, 1/4 cup baking soda, 1 teaspoon dish soap. Sponge it over doggy immediately after mixing, let sit for 5 minutes, rinse well. I only had a pint of peroxide, but we figured it would work since Andy is a small dog. And it did!

He is recouperating today after the trauma of getting skunked (which I have read is very irritating to their eyes...as IF the smell alone wasn't already bad enough!) and then dragging that smell around farm (he was tail-between-the-legs depressed & embarssed about it), and then the dreaded bath. Poor puppy dog. I do hope he has learned his lesson!

Dogs and Litter Boxes...

We have this 80 pound black lab, Buddy, who is not quite a year old. He is really a tiny lap dog trapped in a big dog's body and is just a lovey big baby. And apparently camera flashes excite him because everytime I snapped a picture of him he would run madly and excitedly around the house!

So anyway, yesterday I am in the little bathroom where the cat litter box is. Buddy comes walking through, lifts his leg, pees in the cat litter box and walks on! I had never seen such a thing, so I was amazed and cracking up laughing all at the same time. But then a thought hit me...maybe this was a fluke thing and he is just randomly "marking" things around the house which would be a very, very, very smelly and bad thing. So I followed him around and then looked around the house for evidence. None was found. He has done it (used the litter box)several times since then.

I have heard of dogs sneaking a cat poop snack from the litter box, which he has never done, but peeing in it? How neat is that?!?!?!?!

Good Boy Buddy! :0) Keep up the good work!