Life on the Ranch

Bear is one of the female dogs on our ranch. She is the puppy of Shamrah. Bear was born in CA and as we were loading up to leave, the kids asked their dad if they could take on of the puppies with us. He said, yes but, we had to name her Bear. The other puppies all stayed in CA and were placed into homes. Here is Bear when she was tiny: Here is Bear last year in the snow of Oklahoma:

Little Molly, my son's English Shepherd, is doing really well on our ranch. Today she actually went after the 2 sheep we recently got and was able to chase them into the pen. She is an obedient little doggie and fun to have around.      Here are a few pics from by the pond the other day:

Animals add a dimension to our lives that is special. We learn from them, we train them, we raise them, we feed them, we play with them, we milk some of them, we walk some of them, we hug some of them and, we will miss some of them. That is the case with Bow. She was with us from 8 weeks old until this past Sunday (she was just a little over 6 years old). In my 19 year old daughter's words in an email to her Granny and others she said the following: Bow - 12/22/03 - 1/24/10 Bow passed away on Sunday. She had been noticeably sick for a couple weeks and we had been taking her to the vet, giving her antibiotics for what we thought could be the problem, etc. She was going down hill on Saturday night and Sunday. We decided to take her to the Emergency vet on Sunday to take some X-ray's of her chest and abdomen- she had been having trouble breathing. As we were loading her up, she went. As far as what she died of, we are not sure.  Upon doing a necropsy, we found her lungs and hea...