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she's been a fantastic dog.. we are really going to miss her and how much she loved the other animals under her care. She was one of those dogs who was 1 in a million
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we are like that with several of the dogs we had over the years.. my husband still tears up when he thinks about his big ol doofy german shepherd. He loved that dog as much as you love Rojo
cold and raining here..
my old livestock dog has decided she's tired of living... so I'll be burying her as soon as this lets up..
Maybe that is the problem, them more the age the less I have left upstairs. Pretty soon, won't know enough to careHappy Birthday RachaelS! Age is just a number, it is what you have upstairs that counts!
Lisa
Happy birthday, hon. It's never been my birthdays that bother me. It's been my son's birthday; and, now days, my grandbabies. Grandbaby number 10 is due around my birthday this year....Like you, I love them to death - especially because I got to bypass the whole "rearing them" thing and was able to go straight to grandma (I have six step-children and, obviously, 9 step-grandchildren). It's absolutely awesome. I wish you could adopt grandchildren...that's totally the way to go. You get to experience their good sides and send them home for their bad sides.
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thanks.. he's as much of a basket case as I am right now..
*sighs* shucks why can't it be April 21st...I could make it then. Good luck I bet it will be fun. Probably best I don't go or I will bring back something I don't have room for.
they have a sale every month.. plus Kifaru in lampasas also has one every month.. but with Kifaru it's larger animals on Saturdays (deer .. buffalo.. goats.. mini horses).. with "small pets" everything from hedgehogs to coatimundis and birds) on Sundays
http://kifaruexotics.com/
http://kifaruexotics.com/future-auctions/
So for those that have been to these, are they a good place to get animals? Do you get a decent price?
it can vary from month to month depending on who they have bring in birds.. some months they get large consignments in from other states or from the bigger breeders. So variety and number of animals / birds can vary. There is a vet on site.. so all birds have been tested.
as for price.. that can vary as well.. it really depends on how badly other people want the same birds that you want (bidding fever.. lol)
Any time I have gone to the auctions (Kifaru mostly) i got animals and tack a lot cheaper than I would have anywhere else. For exotic birds/animals.. a lot of the pet shops will go to Kifaru to get critters below wholesale prices so they can sell them in shop.
for the exotics.. some are imported from Mexico. (all paperwork is in order and everything is legal).. Others come from breeders here in Texas
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cold and raining here..
my old livestock dog has decided she's tired of living... so I'll be burying her as soon as this lets up..
they have a sale every month.. plus Kifaru in lampasas also has one every month.. but with Kifaru it's larger animals on Saturdays (deer .. buffalo.. goats.. mini horses).. with "small pets" everything from hedgehogs to coatimundis and birds) on Sundays
http://kifaruexotics.com/
http://kifaruexotics.com/future-auctions/
sounds like a party in the making!
OKOKOK, I was born and raised here, and I know about A&M, but I had no clue what yall were talking about, What's the skinny here?Longer than anywhere else in my life. Considering all the places I've lived, that's saying something. Yeah, yeah - also consider where in Texas I live....we just moved to GTown in December. Otherwise, it's been Austin. That's part of why it cracked me up so much.
But, we have quite a few on here that are relatively new to Texas, so...wanted to make sure any of them might not be unknowing as to what university he was talking about.
BTW - bit of trivia that really doesn't matter to anyone except my husband.......his family - three of the four lines - goes back in this area to pre-Texas days. And that fourth line was here pre-Texas, they just bailed and went to Oklahoma two generations before he was born. We find it too funny. His great-great-grandfather owned the property that the Texas capitol building sits on. His family cemetery is ~15 min north of us in Jarrell, Texas....his family donated the cemetery to the town to use. Just absolutely amazing...I see all these bumper stickers of "Born in Texas" or "Texas Native" and I want to giggle. Hard to believe my husband wound up right back in his family's stomping grounds without ever planning it.
