Ee-Eye-Ee-Eye-Oh!
The trip out to Middle Of Nowhere, Alberta, sure was long. This morning I layed towels out on my car seats and packed up the dogs and drove for almost 130km out to the farm (that the organization I volunteer for is run out of). When we finally got out there we were greeted by about 4 dogs in a fenced yard. They were noisy. This is the farm that Bear came from and when we pulled up and heard the dogs barking, he kind of slumped down in the seat a little. It was almost like he was saying, "oh man, these guys, again?" The people who fostered Bear out to me said that all the dogs were getting him stressed out. Once he got to sniff around again, he was totally happy. When the lady who co-runs the operation came out, about 17 dogs came pouring out of the house with her! Poor R-Dog was freaked, getting swarmed by all those sniffers. The dogs were all very happy and friendly. R-Dog was soon romping around excitedly with him. For a dog who once lived in a tiny apartment, the farm probably felt like Doggie Heaven
Being my first time out to the farm, I was given the grand tour by a four-year-old animal rescuer. I got to see a large (super friendly) feeder pig that was found wandering along the side of the road, and Franscene the pot-bellied pig, of course, who I got to volunteer with that one day a couple weekends ago. I was taken through the house (almost all of the cats are kept in the house's spacious basement) and shown around. The little one showed me a litter of kittens under one of the beds; a white mama cat with three babies, just opening their eyes (sooo sooo sooo adorable). I even got to meet a hermit crab and a fish, though I did not catch their names, lol. The back yard (about 18 acres) was fantastic - horses and a donkey and like, 13 llamas. Some of them came right to the fence to say hello, which was very cool. Sometime, I'll tell the story of how my fear of horses started, but that's another story for another day.
Bear and a couple other "trouble-makers" got into the large animal area and began hearding a llama, then chasing the llama, then jumping at the llama. Oh yah, that's my boy. Poor llama. There's no emoticon for llama, so I'll do one of these guys:
The pigs have run of the backyard, with a cozy barn (with heat lamps and everything) of their own to sleep in at nighttime. I think the pigs are the favourites, you can tell by the looks on their happy faces
There were other animals too, chickens ( 
) and a goat, I think (he was hiding). The dogs and pigs had many neat things to do - so many doggie toys and a pool to run through, I'm sure both R-Dog and Bear will have a good time. I just hope they'll wanna come home to our little house with the tiny yard.
Thanksgiving
The holiday is this weekend, yay! I'm going away, so I won't be posting again until Monday at the earliest. I have a loooong ass drive tomorrow, so I'm gonna hit the sack. Take care everybody, I hope you have a fantastic Thanksgiving - and to my American friends, have a good Columbus Day
Here's a pic of me in my new outfit that I bought for the trip. My eyes look crazy in this pic
The trip out to Middle Of Nowhere, Alberta, sure was long. This morning I layed towels out on my car seats and packed up the dogs and drove for almost 130km out to the farm (that the organization I volunteer for is run out of). When we finally got out there we were greeted by about 4 dogs in a fenced yard. They were noisy. This is the farm that Bear came from and when we pulled up and heard the dogs barking, he kind of slumped down in the seat a little. It was almost like he was saying, "oh man, these guys, again?" The people who fostered Bear out to me said that all the dogs were getting him stressed out. Once he got to sniff around again, he was totally happy. When the lady who co-runs the operation came out, about 17 dogs came pouring out of the house with her! Poor R-Dog was freaked, getting swarmed by all those sniffers. The dogs were all very happy and friendly. R-Dog was soon romping around excitedly with him. For a dog who once lived in a tiny apartment, the farm probably felt like Doggie Heaven
Being my first time out to the farm, I was given the grand tour by a four-year-old animal rescuer. I got to see a large (super friendly) feeder pig that was found wandering along the side of the road, and Franscene the pot-bellied pig, of course, who I got to volunteer with that one day a couple weekends ago. I was taken through the house (almost all of the cats are kept in the house's spacious basement) and shown around. The little one showed me a litter of kittens under one of the beds; a white mama cat with three babies, just opening their eyes (sooo sooo sooo adorable). I even got to meet a hermit crab and a fish, though I did not catch their names, lol. The back yard (about 18 acres) was fantastic - horses and a donkey and like, 13 llamas. Some of them came right to the fence to say hello, which was very cool. Sometime, I'll tell the story of how my fear of horses started, but that's another story for another day.
Bear and a couple other "trouble-makers" got into the large animal area and began hearding a llama, then chasing the llama, then jumping at the llama. Oh yah, that's my boy. Poor llama. There's no emoticon for llama, so I'll do one of these guys:
The pigs have run of the backyard, with a cozy barn (with heat lamps and everything) of their own to sleep in at nighttime. I think the pigs are the favourites, you can tell by the looks on their happy faces
There were other animals too, chickens ( ) and a goat, I think (he was hiding). The dogs and pigs had many neat things to do - so many doggie toys and a pool to run through, I'm sure both R-Dog and Bear will have a good time. I just hope they'll wanna come home to our little house with the tiny yard.
Thanksgiving
The holiday is this weekend, yay! I'm going away, so I won't be posting again until Monday at the earliest. I have a loooong ass drive tomorrow, so I'm gonna hit the sack. Take care everybody, I hope you have a fantastic Thanksgiving - and to my American friends, have a good Columbus Day
Here's a pic of me in my new outfit that I bought for the trip. My eyes look crazy in this pic
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llamas! that's cool. i heard they're really strange looking.
that place sounds amazing.