This morning as I stumbled into the kitchen, set up the coffee maker I became enraptured with the birds feeding outside the breakfast nook big window. While the coffee was cooking in the Kurig cooker with my “Fog Chaser ™” brand I sat down to watch the birds and turned on the PBS classical station […]
My dog Kixx, a Great Pyrenees at about 100 lbs, or more, has reached 8 years plus. Big Dogs do not live as long as small dogs. When they all start to fade the first symptom of a healthy but aging dog, from my observation of dozens of dogs is that they become slower, can’t […]
This is a rural county that requires residents to dump their own trash in large metal “green boxes” at various locations. Besides trash being dumped you will notice an abundance of feral cats scrounging about for food.These are “House Kitties” that have been dumped and reverted to survival instincts. Some good souls feed these cats […]
The recent cold snap ought to get you going with a number of tasks designed to stay warm this expected frightful winter, that is if you want to listen to the Weather Channel. I have written several articles on taking care of this that and other things in the house and garage, but now we […]
Poor old declining Tom, he is so beat up, ragged, ears torn, claw marks on his neck, and an infected foot that is swollen up like a baseball. He limps along but keeps on trucking. He is my main medical patient. You have to take care of your people in your care and although barn […]
My first experience with multiple outdoor living cats – barn cats -was on my Uncle’s Farm. Every morning at least a dozen cats, perhaps more were piled against the kitchen door awaiting its opening. Once that door was opened they swarmed in and headed for the underside of the big wood fired kitchen cook stove. […]
I am not inviting any rabbits to dinner yet, so I have to clean houses and stuff hay in the nest boxes so they can keep warm. Yes, rabbits feel cold just like us, and need to get out of the wind and cold. My nest boxes, built into the hutch complex so that each […]
The phone rang: “Help! All my chickens are going bald”. This has been a major problem since Noah confined his birds on the Ark. Major chicken headaches, such as our lead in picture illustrates with mites, are manageable. But do you also have birds pulling their own feathers and pulling each other’s feathers. Oh, what […]