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microchick said:
Texas Cattle Dog!??!?

Oh thank you for showing those to me! I'm going to start doing research now. I saw a Meme yesterday on Pinterest about ACDs with this beautiful head shot of one looking bored/disdainful as only an ACD can do when it is totally bored and the caption was "I heard you! I'm just ignoring you now like I did the first time!" which is SO like an ACD.

I just came in. Got the chicken run rearranged which meant netting came down, hot wire got taken apart, panels got unscrewed (could anybody have designed those clamps to be harder to use?) shoved into the right position, then everything reassembled. I still have the Big Bird pen and Bachelor pen to dismantle but it's chain link and a pain. I'll tackle it tomorrow hopefully before it rains.

Discovered one varmint tunnel. It got filled with wire and I buried more wire.

I let the hens and bantams loose and my oh my, what happy birds. Wouldn't life be interesting if all it took to make us blissfully happy was dead grass to scratch around in.
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orignally they started with a cross between Auzzies and Queensland Heelers... Now they are their own breed. The place I got the video is Texas Cattle Dog Rescue. But they have pups as well.

I wanted one that is trainable and not necessarily a one man dog. Ur... Girl dog...

https://texascattledogrescue.com/

I know some of these dogs can have a 200 word vocabulary .... That they will admit to. I believe My Rosie was very close to being one. She was about the same size and temperament.

deb
 
We keep hoping that a little dump off will show up at our gate like our brother and sister did. But if one doesn't......That intelligence has to be the Aussie Shepherd in them. The cattle dog is a just plain stubborn streak. Our Dingo would climb snow drifts in order to jump the yard fence back in IL. We would yell at him to stop and come. He'd just look over his shoulder with this gleeful smile on his nose as if he was saying, NO! and take off into the woods behind our house. He'd wander back in an hour or two later, and we'd find him lying in the front yard scanning the property for any varmint dumb enough to cross into his territory. Cattle dogs are great animals. No experience with AS's but I wonder if the cross will decrease the occurrence of the gene that causes Degenerative Myelopathy.

Buck and Spot are just 6 with a lot of good years ahead of them we hope. Still with the predators we have here we can't be without a dog or two around.
 
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Beautiful day today -- 60 and sunny, like all weekend long -- and a day off of physical activity as the past few days were laborious. Pruned peach trees in the orchard and diced up the branches for trash pickup, pounded plant food stakes in the orchard, took down butterfly bushes, planted rows of peas and also the raised beds. Today I dragged my weary body off to the Monday Matinee Movie group. We had 12 in attendance. Half of us wanted to see "The Mule" (Clint Eastwood) and the other half saw "Mary Poppins Returns."

Tomorrow may have precip. So either a trip up to Santa Fe or housework here, depending on the weather. Either way I'm planning on sleeping in, dogs willing.
 
penny1960 said:
We still will have plenty dogs Snow is 2 Moose our lab is 5 as awful as it was for you two Micro we will be loosing the battle with Raudy our Corgi 18 soon after Fear we have steeled ourselfs to this
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:hugs

Vet told me once. They are in our lives for such a short time but the pawprints they leave on your heart last forever.
 
bruceha2000 said:
Gee we made half that! But it was sunny here too. Supposed to be about the same tomorrow.
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DH and I were talking today after hearing a man on the HAM radio talking about it being 18 degrees in MN this morning and still with lots of snow on the ground.

I said if we were desperate to move to a warmer climate we would probably look for somewhere with milder winters with summers like we currently have. Maybe Southern Arkansas or Tennessee.:bow I really have to salute you brave souls that live up there where there are two seasons. Winter and July.:bow
 
microchick said:
:hugs

Vet told me once. They are in our lives for such a short time but the pawprints they leave on your heart last forever.
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My heart is plastered with them they can all still bring tears to my eyes at times
 

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