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Shebrew posted:Any more pictures of baby Mina? She's too cute It's so cold my camera battery dies almost immediately  Here's a thing I wrote up about her a few days ago though.I tell everyone that Mina, despite being the cutest puffball in the world, is 100% a working dog and here's why. Last night it was about 5 degrees overnight and I decided it was too cold for a lone baby to spend the night out in the barn. I set up a nice little pen in the basement where it wasn't too warm with some toys and things. It took 15 minutes to convince her to even come into the house and then she spent the next hour screaming in fury because that was not where she belonged. At one point I was sitting next to the pen and had her and Major shrieking at me in stereo and thought I was going to die. I gave up and plonked her in the snow and she was instantly happy as a clam and wanting to play. Mina ended up spending the night in her barn pen with a heat lamp, snugglesafe pad, a million blankets and deep hay. She was totally fine despite my heated waterers starting to freeze over and she was with her flock where she felt she needed to be. She's 8 weeks old and 18 lbs now.
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What a good dog 
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Dec 29, 2017 04:58
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It's been snowing for about a week straight now but I dragged the dogs out for a romp anyway. Major mostly sulks about having to wear a muzzle and be vaguely near a puppy. Maybe if you didn't try to murder babies you wouldn't have to wear it, dog!  He's actually doing really well (for him) and is getting better at walking away, or at least telling the puppy to gently caress off without taking it too far.  Really? Neither of you could look at the camera?  Love the baby   Still the cutest puffball in the world.  She turned 8 weeks and became the sassiest girl in the world. It cracks me up.  Dashing through the snow   Then it started coming down too hard to see so we packed it in. Puppy went back to the barn with some warm dog slop to fill her slop belly and Major came back inside to gloat about being a Special Boy who gets to live in a house and eat ham.
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Dec 30, 2017 19:00
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It's going to become hilarious once she starts getting bigger than Major
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Dec 31, 2017 00:29
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Another dog showed up on my front stoop and Major is pretty sure the world is ending now. I'm not going to leave a baby beagle outside in a snowstorm, you monster!
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Dec 31, 2017 00:35
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The dogs will outnumber the sheep soon enough.
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Dec 31, 2017 01:14
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cannot handle that puppy
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Dec 31, 2017 01:39
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Poor beagle! Was he dumped?
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Dec 31, 2017 03:14
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I have no idea! It was snowing so hard that there aren't any tracks to follow to see where he came from. He seems like an Amish dog to me but my Amish neighbors didn't recognize him from anywhere. I posted him everywhere online and a friend of mine just started working at the APL and is willing to foster him if I can't find the owner. He seems like a fine and good beagle.
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All beagles are fantastic, lovable assholes. Imo that beagle chose you and you should keep him. Eifert Posting fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Dec 31, 2017 |
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Dec 31, 2017 15:10
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So, something happened this morning. It's way too cold out there (I'm southern, we don't really have heated barns in my area because it's almost never 11 degrees overnight) so I uh:   She's a really good mom so far. Good girl Gossip. Twin ewes, by the by.
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Jan 5, 2018 18:35
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Congrats on the safe and healthy births. Keep momming, Gossip!
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Jan 5, 2018 19:22
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So how long until this happens to you?
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Jan 15, 2018 19:49
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Cythereal posted:So how long until this happens to you? No sheepdogs here yet, just dogs that think they're sheep. Some day I'll have a real herding dog though! Mina was 26lbs at 10 weeks and I'm guessing she'll crack 30 this week. She's a huge, giant baby.    Major has decided that she is livestock, which he is not allowed to murder, and mostly tries to ignore her out of existence at this point. 
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Jan 16, 2018 02:54
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That is a ridiculously cute puppy. What happened with the beagle?
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Jan 16, 2018 04:59
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Cythereal posted:That is a ridiculously cute puppy. I never did figure out where he came from. He took a quick trip through the apl, got neutered and microchipped, and then was adopted the day he became available. He was a very good boy and while I felt bad I couldn’t find his owner I have to think he’s in a better situation now.
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Jan 16, 2018 05:18
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Those toes
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Jan 16, 2018 17:25
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comin' to the farm to snuggle mina right now i s2g
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Jan 16, 2018 17:49
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Cythereal posted:So how long until this happens to you? I lock my doors when the girls are out working the flock because I don't want a sheep in the kitchen.
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Jan 17, 2018 15:42
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:I lock my doors when the girls are out working the flock because I don't want a sheep in the kitchen. Have you ever gotten Sheep standing outside the back/kitchen door?
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Jan 17, 2018 15:51
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A friend took me on a trip to look at some highland cows and it was a really good thing I didn't have $500 sitting around or I would have come home with a fluffy babby cow. I'll have to ask to come along when she picks up the two she's buying and bring my real camera but here are some cell phone pics. Those ear floofles  Friend put a deposit on this one. I'm jealous of those bangs.  And then decided she needed this one too.  I really liked this one that was only a couple days old.  This little bull calf wanted everyone to love on him  Also Monty is finally home after sowing his wild oats on another farm for a few months. He's moved in with Mina's longwool boys and has settled right in like he never left. He's such a good, handsome little ram
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Jan 19, 2018 23:00
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So does your friend raise cattle for a specific purpose or just as a hobby? Also fluffy cows 
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Jan 20, 2018 02:05
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I know if I had land for cows I'd raise Highlands as a hobby. They're so fuzzy!
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Jan 20, 2018 02:10
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She's going to have a farm store where she sells flowers and herbs and eggs and meat. She already has chickens, geese, sheep, goats, and kunekune pigs. She has a 4H background though and adores cows so she's excited to have them again.
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Jan 20, 2018 05:06
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Have you ever gotten Sheep standing outside the back/kitchen door? Absolutely. That's just normal though. Find an iffy bit of celery? "Hey Cla!" and he comes clattering up the deck stairs and he gets a celery.
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Jan 21, 2018 01:14
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I found Major a few years from now. https://i.imgur.com/Y7qUtRY.mp4
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Jan 23, 2018 17:29
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Is that a Maremma or a different kind of big white dog?
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Jan 23, 2018 19:14
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my cat is norris posted:Is that a Maremma or a different kind of big white dog?
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Jan 23, 2018 19:57
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my cat is norris posted:Is that a Maremma or a different kind of big white dog? That's a sheep.
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Jan 23, 2018 20:51
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Radio! posted:That's a sheep. you're a sheep. my cat is norris posted:Is that a Maremma or a different kind of big white dog? it's just a big dumb happy pyr
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Jan 24, 2018 02:44
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I can't tell them apart at all! Pyrs are so nice, though.
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Jan 24, 2018 03:13
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if i got an lgd i'd wear a goat suit 24/7 and bounce around and bleat so it would love me
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Jan 26, 2018 23:58
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Octopoon posted:if i got an lgd i'd wear a goat suit 24/7 and bounce around and bleat so it would love me You don't need to do that, they already love you! If you met Mina she would think you were her Best Friend!!!! because everyone is her Best Friend!!! Case in point: One of my angora rabbits wasn't feeling well today so I brought him in to check him out and Mina was so concerned about her Best Friend!!! (a rabbit she literally just met) that she willingly ventured inside to make sure I was taking proper care of him. I'm used to Major Murderhound so I was a little concerned but she just gently sniffed and licked him.    Artie is feeling much better already and Mina has gone back out with her other Best Friends!!!, all the sheep. She's 12 weeks old and 32 lbs this week and is just an awesome puppy
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Jan 27, 2018 00:12
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Oh no, she is so nice to the bunny! Beautiful girl :3
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Jan 28, 2018 16:28
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She's growing so fast! Gonna be a giant fuzzy monster in no time.
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Jan 28, 2018 16:46
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Our goat finally had her kids! This is the first time we’ve had any goats born and unfortunately we lost one at less than 24 hours old and it’s the first time I cried over losing one of the farm animals. But the second kid, little Jon Snow, is perfect and healthy and right around 7 lbs already at a week old. I had to hold him to get a good picture, because he does not stop bouncing! He’s a mostly white little Nigerian dwarf and has his mama’s blue eyes and we love him. 
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Feb 20, 2018 21:13
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Picture no loady from TinyPic, so I copied over to Imgur.
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How big has Mina gotten now? Is she Major-sized yet?
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Jon Snow is such a cutie.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:How big has Mina gotten now? Is she Major-sized yet? She is not quite Major sized but she turned 16 weeks today and weighed in at around 42 lbs last week so she's probably 45 lbs this week? So she's over halfway to Major size! She has an instagram so here are some phone pics https://www.instagram.com/p/Bfd7Su5Bbi3/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Be8xynEBp_X/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BfY2ixsBrXT/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BfbT3CkhLwB/ If it ever stops raining I'll take some real pictures of her again. Also we're only like 3 weeks away from lambing!
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