Dog days of August
Yes, the dogs are still here, being dogs. They have sort of been in the proverbial doghouse of late. Getting out and tooling around, sneaking Nylabones outside, harassing the cats and getting into the pig clabber. All things that are frowned upon and normal.
Eating windfall apples.
And lots of blackberries.
They graze quite a bit on any fruit they can find, but usually stay out of the vegetables until winter time.
We don’t work the cattle with the dogs, but the dogs have the disposition that meshes with the cows. They never get into trouble with the cattle or calves, unlike our neighbors dogs… .
The cats – that is a different story. As long as the cats don’t run – there is an ongoing truce or respect.
When I feed Jane, the cats are close by waiting to get the last dribble of milk, and the dogs are nearby too, waiting to halfheartedly chase the cats back to the barn.
And if the little cats won’t do – a big one will suffice.
Food Renegade
Simple, Green, Frugal Co-op
And that is why its called the dog days of summer;)
Just couldn’t resist that one.
I dunno- those cats look like they own it pretty thoroughly. Great pictures (as usual).
Paula, yeah they don’t have too many worries from the dogs – the other stuff that is worrisome.
Pig clabber?
Michelle, free choice sour milk + dogs = gastric distress and messy pants
great shots! Ha ha, love that cat-itude!
Fantastyk, those kitties are pretty tough, a few well placed claw marks on tender nose leather and the dogs keep their distance.
OMIGosh, as soon as I saw Jane, I “thought” Della! And said, “holy cow, that cannot be Jane!” Man has she grown and her face looks just like Della!
Diane, that’s what we think too – every once in awhile she will get the “look” on her face and it is just like Della’s expression. She was looking big until we brought her some friends to hang out with, now she looks like a baby, next to Della’s two adopted children
Post on that soon…
Those are some awesome photos of your dogs, cows and cats. Do you have to worry about coyotes getting the cats? I saw a coyote the other day. He was acting like he owned the place. Another thing I wonder about is how do deer protect their fawns from preditors?
I love seeing a view into your farm life. Thanks for sharing with us.
It’s because of you and your dogs that we introduced our little fellow to various veggies and fruits as a puppy and he loves almost everything …except peas, he won’t eat his peas. I love the pictures, especially #5.
Mike, well I guess we’ll allow him that
A fella has to stand his ground once in awhile 
Those dogs shouldn’t have ANY bowel problems with all that fruit!
Linda, LOL, with all that fruit they don’t need any help and if you add in a 5 gallon bucket of clabber and whey, LOOKOUT!! They have been sleeping outside! When they gotta go, they gotta go
Well I sure didn’t know dogs will eat fruit. Our dog Sonny will eat most anything, especially if he sees us eating it, but I haven’t offered him fruit. I cook chicken bones till they’re soft and then bury them in the asparagus bed. He’ll dig them up if I don’t put a washtub on top, and eat them along with the dirt. (chicken bones + dirt = puke on the carpet.) He likes kitty do-do, too, if he can get it. ICK!
Love it! Our dogs snitch( more fun that way*wink*) green beans, raspberries, windfall apples, tomatoes( green no less) and corn.
Can’t believe how much Jane has grown, she’s beautiful!
Thanks for sharing, as always the pictures are beautiful! BTW, our Border Collie, Tuffy, watches cats carefully and doesn’t bother them unless they run! He doesn’t hurt them, but loves to chase!
Blessings,
Kelle
I try to give Fuzzy fruit and veggies but he balks. I think he was raised by a man once and well, most men I know would rather NOT eat fruit and veggies.
Now for me…well I love them.
Linda
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Wow, I never get tired of Trace and Melvin pics! Kaleb has an adventurous palate, too, though he seldom gets to pick anything right off the tree as yet…so far his faves are papaya and nearly any kind of fruit that’s dog-friendly, any kind of cooked meat trimmings, stock-boiling leftovers, just about any kind of cooked veggie, some smoothie sharings…actually it’s hard to think of anything he doesn’t like. He stands patrol at the edge of the kitchen any time I go in there, POSITIVE that nothing can be prepared correctly without his eventually getting to taste-test something. I love it
He will actually become “naughty” over Indian food…something about the spices, I guess, but besides the chocolate cake he nearly gave us a heart attack about counter-surfing and eating while we were gone one day(we still don’t know how), he’ll go into the forbidden zone of the garbage can to get ANY taste of the Indian food. The two times we discovered him in the act, he took one look at us and walked to a far corner of the back bathroom and put himself in his own version of Time Out…without our saying one word…lol oh dear 
I keep him away from the dairy stuff, though, for the very reason you keep T and M outside at night just in case 
Robbyn, I am glad to hear I am not the only one with “BAD DOGS.” You might be right on the spice thing – these two love “gravy stuff” which is Friday night enchilada sauce made with roux, chicken stock and lots of cumin, and they absolutely love curry, which gives them “curry pants,” turmeric stained Aussie pants are not cute…they look much like curds and whey stained pants
Love hearing about Kaleb – he is so similar to my dogs it is uncanny. When we were selling eggs, it was not unusual to have 5 or 6 baskets a day of eggs, and when we sorted the eggs, we used a 5 gallon bucket for eggs destined to the pigs. Somehow Belle knew those eggs were open season, and would get into them if we didn’t place them out of reach. Talk about gastric distress! How she knew the difference and stayed out of the unsorted eggs I have no idea – but she knew. Now the big deal is Jane’s milk moustache – when I feed her, I have 2 dogs and 3 cats sitting under her waiting for the spit…comical.