We have added 2 new babies to our family!

Sarah, Kymball & GEORGE

Living out in the country on a farm surrounded by corn fields, trees and ponds has blessed me with a totally different life style than any one that I had ever imagined. One of the blessings of having a farm and land seems to be the necessity of having pets. We have been without a 'Mouser' for a few years since I am allergic to cats and didn't get another one when our decided that it liked our neighbors house better. But Aunt Tiffany just happened to have kitties out playing in the yard the last time that we went to visit and the kids decided that they had to have one. She is a pretty kitty and meowed all night the first night that she was home with us. Kymball can hardly stand to not be within an arms reach of her and is in a constant state of tears when we wont let her into the kitty's area.

 Kymball wants to carry 'George' as she named her, around with her like a baby doll and hasn't quite realized how real & little the kitty is yet so we have to keep that closely under watch. We bought the kitty a few stuffed little mice and they seem to be its favorite toy so I am hopeful the transition to destroying real mice will be an easy one.

CASSIE

 

We loved our Cassie dog that passed away last summer after 14 years of walking the girls to school, playing in the fields, protecting us from stray dogs and barking at Grasshoppers. We were sad when our Lucky dog followed her a few months later- we think from missing his good friend. Lucky was a city dog that Ricks family had for years and that helped Rick through some rough teen years. Lucky joined us on our farm when Rick & I married. Lucky wasn't sure about the way things were out here in the country and spent the first few months barking non stop, luckily Cassie showed him the ropes and the two of them took to each other and became very good friends.

Rick & LUCKY

We have missed our dogs and have been very aware that both the friendly company and the protection a dog can provide a farm are missing. So it was time to begin thinking about getting another dog. Rick and I began discussing it a few weeks ago and figured that when the time was right we would 'stumble upon' the right dog for us. We have talked about our favorite qualities in Cassie & Lucky and how we hoped to be able to find them in another dog. Today- Ammon's 3rd Birthday we thought it would be fun just to look around at some dogs to see what was out there. We went to the Saint Joseph Animal Shelter because I have never been to a shelter and was curious about it. Figuring we had a few months of 'keeping an eye out' for the perfect dog ahead of us we casually looked round at some of the 1-4 year old dogs at the shelter. Then we rounded the corner and casually looked at some of the darling puppies. We casually walked along looking t all of the cute puppies until OUR puppy popped over to the gate and looked up at us. That was it. That was the one. There were 3 siblings in together and I knew which one was ours so we asked them to get it out and let it spend some time with us. Before Rick even had time to process what was going on I was almost done filling out the adoption paperwork and had paid for the puppy. Tomorrow we get to go pick up our newly neutered, immunized, micro-chipped and dipped black lab puppy to bring home to add to our family. I am really looking forward to getting to know this little one and even to training him to be the farm dog that I hope he will be. Wish us Luck!!!

Rick, Ammon & ???