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new toy
Skye loves her new toy! It's soft and squeaky, and it has a tag! Tags are the first thing she chews away :)


professor rat
Skye got another crate training session with Professor Rat. She had her first one this summer. Although hard to see in this accelerated...


wind
In the middle of the night, Skye came to her little nook in our bedroom. The wind was blowing outside and this is her safe place. As the...


alprazolam
Alprazolam is the latest medicine we have been trying on Skye. It's an anti-anxiety drug that is supposed to lower her stress threshold...


bedtime routine
Bedtime has become a smooth and stress free routine. Yeah! When she is outside, she just comes in when we start preparing her lick mat....


lizard
Skye's cute hunting moves...


Flystrike
We’ve been talking about flystrike and the need to keep chickens’ butts clean in our chicken care classes but we didn’t expect to get a...


butt cleaning
Updated on June 1, 2022. Chickens are usually really good at preening themselves and don’t need our intervention to stay clean and...


Wendy
This is beautiful Wendy, one of Skye's daughters... All Skye's pups are living on the East coast with wonderful families.


2 years
Celebrating Skye's 2 years of freedom! On September 28th 2019, Skye left the dog meat farm #15. She arrived at our home a day later after...


leash training 2
Continuing making progress with the leash... See training videos from 2 months ago to see the difference.


farm 15
Two years ago today, I set foot on a dog meat farm and fell in love with one of the breeding moms. Here are some pictures I took during...


in her crate
Look what happened this morning!!! It's the first time Skye lays in her crate! We got this soft crate in March and introduced it very...


bedtime cue
Here is Skye's new bedtime routine. Around 9pm, we put a lick mat in the living room while calling "Skye. Bedtime.", and close the door...


grassless spot
Guess why we have a brown spot in the middle grass? No, it's not because of the drought. Yep, it's Skye's favorite spot! She naps there,...


Fresh vegetable bouillon
This highly flavorful vegetable bouillon is super easy to prepare, requires no cooking, and is kept in the freezer. This recipe uses a...


squirrel bite
Yesterday Skye caught a tree squirrel. It's not often that this happens despite the fact that we have a few families living in our big...


Salpingitis and lash eggs
I remember the first time we found a weird little rubbery egg in the nestbox. It clearly wasn’t an egg, but it took us a while to...


how many eggs does a hen lay?
A commercial layer hen lays about 300 eggs a year, and there is nothing natural in this. We have been breeding them for maximum egg...


setback over
It's been 12 nights that Skye is sleeping in the house with the door closed, and the bedtime is becoming a routine! Most of the time,...
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