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We understand the stresses associated with leaving your pet behind. We also understand animals are more relaxed and comfortable in their own home environment, so, as an alternative to cramped, stuffy kennels, we offer private dog sitting. We will visit your home at least twice a day to ensure your pet is fed, watered and walked as needed. We promise to stay with them for a cuddle as well as some playtime.

We also feel it’s in your best interest to keep your travels private, so while we are tending to your animal(s), we will make your home seem occupied by turning on lights, adjusting temperature controls if need be and leaving a radio or a television on for company… G-Rated shows only, of course.

If your pet is sick, on medication or elderly, we will personalize our care to their needs. We tend to all animals according to your instruction.

Our goal is to ensure your pet receives the best stress-free care possible while you’re away. We will also provide a daily e-mail of updates on both your animal(s) as well as your home.

Please contact us at adogsdayinn@ymail.com to schedule your dog-sitting appointment.

We provide a through check-list detailing all the necessary information we will need to ensure the best care for your pet. This list will be kept on file in the event you chose to use our services again.

Just a quick update about our current initiatives and 501(c)3 application status.  We are still in the process of filinig our 501(c)3 determination application with the IRS and hope to have that process completed by year’s end.  Obviously the primary benefit of this for the readers of this blog would be that ANY donation to our Rescue will be tax deductible!  Other benefits include the ability to get on our state’s Charitible Organization list and the ability to seek grant funding from a much wider variety of sources.

I assure you that the paperwork and conceptual side of this whole process is MUCH LESS FUN than spending time surrounded by hounds, getting and giving LOTS of love!  I keep assuring myself that it will all be worth it in the end!  I’m also learning all about PayPal and online donations and stuff like that!  What a perfect segue to our website fundraising page: http://www.uh-s.org/FundDrive.htm where you’ve got the opportunity to contribute to our General Fund which currently is focused on building adequate facilities to provide a safe, secure and loving foster facility OR you can make a special contribution to our Help Haul the Hounds fund to facilitate the purchase of a K9-Koach trailer with adequate size and safe facilities for the largest of hounds (like Luke!).  Here a $250 donation will get you 2 lines in memory of a favorite pet on our trailer which will be used for transport of our pack and adoptee shuttles up and down the East Coast!

I guess that’s about all for now, I’ll keep you posted on our progress!

…not exactly words that I thought I’d be muttering at the end of a Spring/Summer season during which I had not accomplished EVERYTHING on the list, but ticked off a good number of projects.  Alas, I am, in fact considering Kennel design as I type these words!  I have looked online and at quite a few plans and approaches and have found vastly different solutions to a common problem. 

Fortunately, we are in the early stages of the design process and may even incorporate our kennel into a larger building project, so we’ve got some flexibility!  However, in order to get up and running enough to foster a few dogs and have the capacity to take in hounds, we’ve got to have a more immediate solution.  I am looking for a ‘modular’ system if you will, but anything is possible, including the use of yet another wooden shed, but a concrete pad and drainage system are a must if we go this way!  I have looked at some of the newer kennel flooring material made from recycled plastic which can then be laid on stone and am still considering all my options!

Hence the purpose of the post!  I’d be interested in knowing the experience of others when it comes to indoor kennel facilities with climate control, easy to clean floors and access to individual outdoor runs.  Let me know if you have any experience or suggestions and thanks in advance! – jak

Paper & Co. in a playful mood on Saturday afternoon

FOXHUNTING is on hiatus for now while the deer hunters are abroad in the countryside, and that gave us a chance to check in at the Iroquois kennels to see how the puppies are doing.

Paper, of course, has been out hunting now and is gradually maturing into an adult pack member. He’s had important lessons all summer and fall, and now the real education starts on the hunt field. There, he has to confront new situations and work professionally with the hunting pack. I guess to put it in human terms, he’s getting his university degree, and by next year he should be a full-time contributing member of the working world.

But what about our youngest puppies, Baffle’s litter and Dragonfly’s huge son Driver? They’re still in elementary school, but the lessons they’re learning now are critical to their future development.

These puppies were born in the spring, and for the last couple of months they’ve been getting their first exposure to working in a group, to pack manners, and to coming when called, Iroquois kennel manager Michael Edwards explained to us on Saturday.

Room to roam: all the hounds--puppies, current working pack members, and retirees--get plenty of free exercise in the two-acre field adjacent to the kennel

After breakfast each day, the 10 young puppies spend about three hours out in the kennel’s two-acre exercise field, one of the best tools the Iroquois staff has for the young hounds’ education.

“They stay out here while we’re getting stuff done in the kennel, and they play and play,” Michael said. “I try to get them out twice a day, once at the end of the day, too, so that they get four to five hours outside.

“Right now, the girls in this litter seem a little more rebellious than the boys,” Michael said of Baffle’s puppies. “The two bigger girls, Bangle and Bandstand, they’ll be the ones that won’t want to go in their kennel. But they’re all very lovable and want attention all the time.”

Assistant kennel manager Alan Foy (seen in the photo above with Baffle’s puppies) has also been working with the youngsters to start developing their sense of pack identity and cooperation.

“Alan’s been taking them out back here, just trying to teach them to stick together and respond when he calls them, and they’ve done really well at that,” Michael said, adding that it’s too early for most of the puppies to have learned their individual names yet. The kennel staff is trying to learn the puppies’ names, too! Many of them look so similar it can be hard to distinguish them, with a few exceptions. Bagshot is the woolly male of the litter; Bashful and Banknote are easy to pick out because they are the two smallest; and Driver, well, he’ll always stand out in a crowd due to his size and dark coloring.

Driver back in July.

Driver today with kennel manager Michael Edwards. A VERY big difference!

“Driver is the biggest baby out here,” Michael said, meaning both the biggest baby and the biggest baby. Recently, Michael set a five-gallon bucket out in the kennel yard, spooking Driver.

“He would not come out here on this concrete while that bucket was sitting there,” Michael said. “I had to get it and move it all the way out by the far gate before he would even come in here, and even then he came in looking at it real carefully. So we’re going to do something we did that worked well with the ST litter (Stam, Stax, Star, Stanza, etc., born in 2007). We’re going to put a windsock in their kennel, something that’s moving all the time so they get used to it. It made a big difference with them.”

In addition to their mini-houndwalks around the property, the puppies also have ventured farther afield with Iroquois joint-Master Jerry Miller and huntsman Lilla Mason. On those, they rode in the hound truck to the old point-to-point course, the same place the older hounds have their early summer walks and pond exercise. Like the older hounds, the puppies got to practice sticking together in a wide open space–their first formal exposure to that critical lesson in the company of the people who will actually hunt them someday.

“All that is important,” Michael said, “because they’re learning how to be a pack.”

The hunt and kennel staff have found it’s useful to start building the pack sense early with puppies.

“With the PA litter (including Panda, Parish, Parody, etc., born in 2005), Lilla and I would take them all through the area together,” Michael said. “By the time we incorporated them into the pack, they already had an idea what was going on, so they just blended right in.”

The puppies don’t yet have the attention span of the older hounds, but already they are focusing on people when they are out on walk, said Alan.

Baffle's litter, shown here with Michael, seem all grown up at seven months of age, but their lessons are just beginning. "I'd say they're like teenagers now," kennel manager Michael Edwards says. "They're just kind of lanky, but they're getting well-balanced."

In the case of Baffle’s puppies, it helps that they are part of a nine-hound litter–a ready-made pack, in a way. For Driver, a singleton, it was especially important that he learn group dynamics as early as possible.

“He lets the little girls chew on his ears,” Alan said. “He’s just a big, goofy puppy. But he’s fit in really well. I agree with Michael that he’s a little passive in the group, but I think it’s because when we first mixed him in with the other puppies he was so much bigger than they were. Now, he’s not quite as much bigger. Barwick and Backfire are getting pretty close to him in size. I think he knew he was bigger and couldn’t play as rough.”

“That all started when they were all at the lower kennel,” Michael said. “He was so much bigger at first that I monitored him closely. If he would be rough, I’d kind of get on him about it and growl at him.”

That lesson seems to have stuck. As Driver romped around with Baffle’s puppies, he was a perfect gentleman with his smaller playmates.

“One of the reasons we wanted to get him in with a group early was because an only child can sometimes have some trouble integrating,” Michael said. “When they’re on their own too long, I think they don’t get socialized with the pack. They don’t learn pack manners and how to respect other hounds. That’s why it was important to get Driver in with the other puppies as soon as we could, especially as big as he is. The longer we waited, the harder it would have been for him to understand that he is part of a pack.”

Baffle's litter in April.

“They learn how to be hounds from each other,” Alan said.

The next step, Michael said, is to start occasionally introducing older hounds to the puppies. Paper was one candidate, but evidently he felt pretty strongly that, having moved up with the big dogs in the pack, he was now too important to deal with the little kids anymore.

“He didn’t want any part of those puppies,” Michael said. “He jumped up on top of a bench and growled about it. I thought, being as young as he was, he’d adjust to it pretty quickly, but no, thank you. On the other hand, Panda went out there with them and loved it.”

“She educated them,” Alan said. “She didn’t get aggressive with them, but she let them know when they went too far and she let them know she didn’t want all of them piling on her at once. If they did that, she’d run away and hop up on the bench, and they couldn’t get up there with her. Then she’d wait until they scattered. Then she’d jump down again and play with one or two of them until all of them would pile on her again. She trained them in her way, which was very gentle.”

“Introducing older hounds to them out in that paddock is where I think they really start to learn about having manners toward other hounds,” said Michael. ”I think they learn a lot out here in this field with each other, just about how to be a pack. Look at these guys out here right now. They’ve been running and playing for almost an hour. They’ll play to the point that somebody gets a little grumpy and growls, and then they’ll stop. These guys will say, ‘That’s enough,’ and it doesn’t escalate. Then they’ll play again.”

“Nobody knows more about being a hound dog than a hound dog,” Alan said. “We can let them know what’s acceptable and what’s not acceptable. But those hounds know even better how to tell each other what’s acceptable and what isn’t, and they know how to tell each other how far it can go before something becomes unacceptable. You’ll see them do it on houndwalk. A puppy will go off from the group and do something goofy, and when they come back, and older hound will growl at them to chastise them. Glog is really good at chastising the younger hounds on houndwalk when they do something wrong. He gives them a little scolding, like he’s saying, ‘That’s not how we act around here.’”

Paper (right) at play. Playing is an important part of learning.

While we were at the kennel, we checked in on the new English hounds, too. Cottesmore’s Samson, Strawberry, Structure, and Hawkeye arrived about three weeks ago and are adjusting well, Michael and Alan report. Like the puppies, they are having to learn their place in a new pack, and Michael and Alan are working to figure out which clique within the pack works best for them.

“I think a lot of their ability to adjust easily has to do with Neil,” Michael said, referring to the Cottesmore huntsman, Neil Coleman, who raised and hunted the four in England.

“Look at Samson over here,” Michael said, pointing to the group just turned out in the two-acre field. “He’s in there with all those males. They’re all at the age where they’re trying to show who’s top dog: Paper, Gaelic, Hailstone. But Samson’s the type you could probably stick him in any group and he’d adjust. Because he’s not aggressive. That has a lot to do with the way Neil has raised them. And the others are the same way.”

Cottesmore Samson, the red-and-white hound closest to Michael here, has settled in well. Michael and Alan report that he is easygoing and adaptable.

Structure, Hawkeye, and Strawberry are kenneled in a run with the SA litter that includes Sassoon, Savvy, and Saracen. “They’re pretty easygoing, too,” Michael said.

One of the most important jobs Michael and Alan do is figure out which group of hounds should be kenneled together. Getting the mix right requires some experimentation, but it’s key to the hounds’ physical and mental wellbeing; getting it wrong could result in dangerous friction in the kennel.

“When I brought the English hounds up from the lower kennel (near Michael’s house, where they were quarantined before joining the rest of the pack at the upper kennel), I just started sticking them out in the field with different groups to see how they responded to each other. When they’re outside together with a lot of room, they’re more interested in what’s going on around them than they are in each other, and you can keep an eye on them. I stuck them in with the SAs and never had any issues with them, so that looks like a good fit.”

The process–the two-acre turnout paddock and essentially letting the hounds choose the clique they’re most comfortable with–is unusual, as the English imports let Michael and Alan know.

“When we first turned them out, they all just stood at the gate looking at us like, ‘What’s going on?’” Michael recalled. “But after a few minutes, they sort of went, ‘Hey, look at all this room! Let’s run!’”

Once the hounds have chosen their own group of friends, how do you get each set to merge comfortably with the pack? “We turn different groups out together,” Michael explained. “There are only a few groups that have a little trouble mixing closely, and you have to know all that, especially when you are loading them up in the trailer to take them to a meet. For instance, we can keep some hounds in the back of the hound truck instead of in the trailer if we need to.”

It’s also critical to know who the dominant dog is at any given time, Michael said. At the moment, it’s Alvin.

“Stalker was the big dog before we retired him,” Michael said. Stalker, one of our most beloved hounds, is now retired under the care of the Hound Welfare Fund. You can read his story here. But now that he’s retired, he spends more time in the kennel office, where he can relax and keep warm, and suddenly he’s a mellow retiree.

“Showing his dominance doesn’t seem to concern him so much now,” Michael said. “I guess he’s old enough to realize he’s got it made in there!”

I adopted a dog from the humane society. such a cute chihuahua terrier mix. He had some scaring on his eye and a dislodged lump on his head. I got him checked out and everything else was fine. so i thought…

I never had to yell, scream, punish a dog so much for his little action. him and the puppy. I fear that my punishment which is like an every other day thing is having a major effect on them. the puppy won’t come to me when he can sense i am pissed and the other becomes very scared and submissive when i point to what he did wrong.

this can be anything from chewing on pens to ripping the garbage bag open. He should know better. I know they are animals but he is acting like he has nothing of his to chew on (tennis balls, stuff animals, stuff animals that squeek, ropes and occasionally an edible bone). i give them snacks, i feed them regularly (twice a day), walk them 3-4 times a day and let them sleep in my bed. i think they have it pretty good for dogs. and hell, i give them table scrabs sometimes. a good life, but they fuck up!

today they killed two of my baby hamsters. i caught them in the act and i acted upon it. the dog knew he did something wrong *rolls eyes* there was blood everywhere! so i yelled at him to get out, he ran straight to the kennel. his saftey zone.

he knows i mean business when i stick my hand in the kennel, he becomes defensive, whining and trying to dig himself deeper in the back, and tries to bite me to. he knows what kind of punishment he gets so he knows whats up when i’m pissed at him. usually it just involves, depending on what he did like if he chewed on something i make him “chew it” but throwing it down his throat. if he wants it that bad he can have it in one bite. if he pisses, which he doesn’t the traditional and noneffective nose rub is what is done but chewing is the main issue. so this time i yelled at him, whooped that ass and sent him to the kennel. same thing with puppy.

they will remain there all night and morning, no potty break for them or anything to eat or drink. that is to show them that if they do wrong they get wrong.

i think i should buy a mouth guard for both of them. no chewing and they can roam freely with no doubt in my head. they can drink but not eat. sounds wonderful huh. i dont’ want them to be kennel dogs but if this is how they are going to act, fuck it, they can consider it a prolong stay if they keep this up. and i mean it. they don’t appreciate what i give them and their freedom to sleep in my bed, then they can have the hard plastic bottom of the kennel with a blanket.

No, Toby hasn’t been shafted. He still lives with us. Readers can rest easy.

I’ve been looking for a dog house for Toby to seek shelter from and more importantly, a place to rest. Previously, he had used his doggy door to enter the laundry, where it’s warm and secure. But doing that left our security door open, and we didn’t spend hundreds of dollars on a new security door so it’s left unused.

I’ve read a lot on dog forums how difficult it is to persuade your four-legged friend to get into the dog house. Dogs – when left outside – don’t tend to stray too far from the entry point into the home. So with that in mind, I moved things around the backyard to accomodate his new dog house and placed it right by the back door. This way the first thing he sees when he leaves his house is the entry to his ‘other’ house.

Getting him into the house was less stress-free than I had envisioned. Many owners recall trying to bait them with food, sitting next to the dog house to arouse the dog’s curiosity or even getting into the dog house.

My problem, however was three-fold.

a) Toby has learnt how to read us. We have tricked him many times to lure him in/out and he knows when to take the bait so a good reward is due.

b) I didn’t see myself sitting next to the dog house when it’s 30 degrees outside. Mind you, the harsh Australian summer sun really gets to you.

c) I won’t fit into the dog house.

So there was Toby, sniffing the dog house and generally ignoring it like it’s another inanimate object in the backyard.

The solution to my predicament? The bed he grew up in and has slept on for the last three years found its place outside – in the dog house. It has his scent and it’s a smell he’s very familiar with.

One arvo I left him outside the entire day with the hope he would use the dog house as a resting place. Toby wasn’t too pleased and was whining and barking a little for hours on end. In the end, he got tired and gave up. I noticed it had gotten quiet for awhile and went to check out where he’s resting…

Success!

We can now leave home with all our doors closed, and knowing Toby is comfortable with a shelter over his head.

Rocky II & Steve

Rocky talks about where he wants to stay when Steve goes away, “Those kennels are really scary in the dark. I’d rather stay with Brandy. I’ll be really nice to Ann and will eat for her if I don’t have to stay in a kennel.”

Vi har noen dager hatt en mini avstemming og navnene det stod mellom var 2 forslag.

1) POMVILLE (som var et forslag som kom inn av vår fórvert Tina Sagflaat)

2) POMERANCH (som var et forslag fra min elskverdige pappa)

For dere som stemte POMVILLE, vil jeg bare si beklager men ………

det ble POMERANCH!

Toby tester hagen i Pomeranch

Meine Vorbereitung ist so gut wie abgeschlossen.
Heute habe ich den Kennel bestellt. Hauptsächlich steht er im Zimmer, da ich meist mit Bus und Bahn unterwegs bin. Tjoa und wenns zum Tierarzt muss stell ich sie ins Auto.

Sie kann sich natürlich nicht mit den typischen japanischen Kenneln messen, die gut 1,80 x 0,90 groß sind, aber ich will den Hund ja nicht wie einen Hamster im Käfig halten *g*

Von Maxi-Pet inkl. Kissen.
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Meidän nettisivut löytyvät nykyään osoitteesta http://pennyess.net/kennel ja uuden blogin osoite tulee olemaan http://pennyess.net/kennel/blogi . Blogi on vielä hyvin kesken, koska allekirjoittanut ei ymmärrä mitään php:stä, että osaisin sitä yksinäni rakentaa… Nettisivut saavat kokoajan lisää täytettä ja ehdotuksia otetaan vastaan.

Tervetuloa vierailemaan !

Late last Friday afternoon,  Judge Charles R. Simpson III of the U.S. District Court (Western District of Kentucky),  handed down his long-awaited ruling in the federal lawsuit challenging the city of Louisville’s animal ordinance claiming, among other things, that it was vaguely worded and unconstitutional.  

Passage of that ordinance in 2006 had started a firestorm of controversy that first engulfed the city, then swept rapidly across the nation.   

Local Veterinarians, sportsmen, representatives of the disabeled, boarding kennels and animal clubs all opposed the major revisions granted under that law which, they claimed, gave the city shelter broad ability to seize pets, no recourse for appeal to their owners, and opened the door to dangerous civil liberty abuses.

For their part, Louisville was releived to have found the ideal solution to their most recent public relations nightmare: the horrific death of Hulon Barbour who was attacked by dogs in an alley one night in 2005.  Unable to explain their shelter director’s failure to enforce the current ordinance to citizens who had complained for weeks about the same loose, aggressive dogs that killed Barbour, Metro instead claimed their old law was inadequate and the city needed the protection of a new, “dangerous dog” law.  

Quick to capitalize on the community’s fears, the HSUS helped draft the new law and labeled anyone who objected to it as ‘greedy’ or ’self-interested’ and kept up a barrage of invective to discredit them.  Animal Extremists embraced it as a “model ordinance” and hurried to sponsor similar legislation at every level of government, in every state in the nation. 

The actual trial had taken place nearly a year before, and each side was hoping for a ruling that would give them a decisive win.  Then, on the first Friday in October, 2009 they learned that Judge Simpson had finally issued his ruling.  

Rather than resolving the debate, however, an entirely new one has sprung up:   Who actually won?

A WIN-WIN-WIN SITUATION

The morning after the decision, the local Courier-Journal newspaper led their Metro section with the headline: Judge upholds most of Louisville’s dangerous-dog law and reported:

Bill Patteson, a spokesman for the Jefferson County attorney’s office, said his office is pleased because the judge upheld “about 95 percent” of the ordinance,” and that “the constitutionality of the ordinance was affirmed,”  and so Metro claimed they’d won.

On the HSUS website, Animals & Politics, their blog stated:

“The court upheld as constitutional nearly every component of Louisville’s comprehensive animal care and control ordinance,” and that the “plaintiffs filed a broad and haphazard lawsuit” which the “federal district court resoundingly rejected”. 

 Last to weigh in, the American Kennel Club (AKC) issued its own press statement under the banner: Victory for Louisville Kennel Club in Suit Against City! and went on to detail how the plaintiff’s had prevailed.

Just to make things even more complicated, one of the parties is demanding that Metro file an appeal of the very decision they currently claim to have won!

WINNING THE BATTLE, LOSING THE WAR

While not a party to the lawsuit, the HSUS did try to flex its legal muscle and file an Amicus (friend-of-the-Court) brief supporting Metro early on in the lawsuit.  Judge Simpson, however, refused to hear it, claiming they had no legal interest in the case. 

So, while HSUS is publicly claiming a resounding victory for their legislative agendas, there are rumors of them leaning  heavily on Metro to appeal this big win.  Apparently, they don’t they know you’re only supposed to demand do-overs when you lose.

 What, a reasonable person might ask, do they care anyway?  And, why should the taxpayers of Metro Louisville shell out big bucks to appeal a federal decision just to please the HSUS when their own city isn’t protesting the ruling?

And it is precisely at this point that we all slide down the rabbit hole into the AniMal RighTs WoNdeRlanD…

 (To be continued!)

Bella Klein flytter!
Vi selger nå huset vårt og er i full gang med pakking, flislegging, rydding på tomten, kasting, fiksing av muren, vasking osv. Man kan godt kalle det kaos og takk til alle som hjelper oss med hundepass og fiksing i huset i denne kaotiske tiden. Vi ønsker etterhvert å flytte litt lenger ut på landet og en ting er sikkert. STOR hage er viktig så hundene får boltret seg masse. Vi er kjempe glad i huset vi bor i nå, men om vi skal trekke ut noe positivt ved flytting, så er det ingen perfekt beliggenhet i forhold til at det går veldig mange mennesker forbi både til skole, barnehage, matbutikk osv. Dere vet jo hvordan Pomeranian hunder er? De skal passe på tomten sin og gir beskjed til alle som går forbi.  Vi håper å få flyttet tidlig 2010. Snart kommer bilder av ny bolig. Bare vent! Neste helg er det vising. Velkommen!

Bella Klein´s Pomeranian

Se flere bilder av huset her

Meine “Tante” Oshana ist am 14.09.09 Mama von 10 Ridgeback Welpen geworden! Den 7 Mädchen und 3 Jungen geht es super! HERZLICHEN GLÜCKWUNSCH!

http://www.bagandanews.de/62.htm <= Bilder der Welpen in der 6te Woche !

Der Papa der Kleinen ist Chiwambo Baha de Kiungwana, ein sehr schöner dunkler Rüder. Hier Photos von Karin van Klaveren http://www.rhodesian-ridgeback-foto.de/chiwambo_jaeger.html .

Oshana kenne ich ja aus meinen Kindheitstagen und kann euch versichern, dass sie eine ganz tolle Mama ist, die mit Sicherheit vieles an ihre Kinder weiter gegeben hat. Den Papa kenne ich persönlich nicht, aber meine Menschen-Eltern machen sich bei jeder Verpaarung immer sehr sehr viele Gedanken – Hündin und Rüde müssen gut harmonieren.

Die ersten Lebenswochen werden die Welpen in der Familie sehr viel kennenlernen, damit sie für das weitere Leben in den neuen Familien gut vorbereitet sind. Viele Rhodesian Ridgebacks begleiten sie in diesen Tagen… die Omas, die Tanten, ein netter Rüde…. alle kümmern sich liebevoll um uns kleinen Racker, so dass die Mama nicht alle Arbeit alleine hat. Welpen können sehr anstrengend sein ^^ !

ICH habe mich auf jeden Fall mehr als gut vorbereitet gefühlt, als ich zu meiner neuen Familie kam ! Zum Thema neue Familien fällt mir ein… Jeder der über das Leben mit einem Rhodesian Ridgeback nachdenkt und sich einen Welpen wünscht, sollte sich immer VOR der Anschaffung im Klaren sein, WAS er sich ins Haus holt . Viele Menschen finden uns toll, hübsch, edel, soooo brav und ruhig. Ihr dürft aber nicht vergessen, dass unsere Rasse für bestimmte Zwecke gezüchtet wurde und wir somit genetisch viele Bedürfnisse und Eigenschaften mitbringen, die manche Menschen unterschätzen. Die Zahl der Ridgeback-in-Not-Hunde steigt.

Neue Welpen Käufer sollten sich daher auf jeden Fall den Artikel von Dr. Ute Blaschke-Berthold durchlesen, das beste Rhodesian Ridgeback Portait, was es zurzeit gibt:

http://umtali.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/komme-aus-afrika-ein-rhodesian-ridgeback-portrait/

Wenn ihr nach diesen Artikel immer noch meint, dass ein Welpe zu euch passt, dann nehmt Kontakt mit einem Züchter des VDH auf oder schaut einfach bei Oshana vorbei ^^ ! Familie Buse, deren Zucht den Namen “Baganda” trägt, züchtet seit 1987 Rhodesian Ridgebacks und gerne können Welpeninteressenten vorbei schauen und sie mit Fragen löchern!

Dr. med. vet. Peter und Gerda Buse
Lindenstr. 1b
23795 Bad Segeberg

Tel.: 04551/2177 Praxis
Tel.: 04551/6975 privat
Fax: 04551/93633

http://www.baganda.de/

Wenn es die Zeit erlaubt, trifft sich die mittlerweile grooooße Baganda-Familie für einen netten Spaziergang. Hunde verschiedenen Alters treffen dann aufeinander und verbringen eine super Zeit.

Dieses ist ein Video, welches meine jetztige Familie vom Treffen von vor 2 Jahren gemacht hat.

In der unteren Player-Leiste müsstet ihr ein gelbes “SD” stehen sehen. Wenn ihr darauf klickt, habt ihr die Möglichkeit “HQ” anzuklicken – es steht für “High Quality”, also, bessere Qualität ^^ !

Euer Tali!

hat die offensichtlich total missratene angeheiratete Verwandtschaft, sprich der Schwiegersohn des Sheriffs von Storsund, wieder mal versucht uns hier einzuschüchtern indem er mit seinen Mercedes Kombi versucht hat, mich und die Hunde beim Training mit dem MTB schlicht und einfach zu überfahren.

War ja nicht der erste Versuch,  aber diesmal hatte ich wenigstens Zeugen, mal sehen ob die Polizei jetzt endlich was unternimmt. Mir persönlich hat es auf jeden Fall endgültig gereicht und eine Warnung das der nächste Versuch dieser Art ernsthafte Konsequenzen hat, wurde von mir persönlich zugestellt. Hoffentlich haben die Herrschaften jetzt verstanden, dass Sie uns einfach in Ruhe zu lassen haben. Mal sehen.

Und ebenfalls in der heutigen Nacht gab es ein extrem erfreuliches Ereignis. Da es Bonitas erstes Mal war, könnte man sagen, wird sie im Laufe des Tages in ihrem Blog darüber ausführlich schreiben.  Und irgendwann heute gibt es dann auch ein Update im Trainingsdiary, denn wir trainieren selbstverständlich die ganze Zeit weiter, nur bin ich nicht zum Schreiben gekommen.

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hat die offensichtlich total missratene angeheiratete Verwandtschaft, sprich der Schwiegersohn des Sheriffs von Storsund, wieder mal versucht uns hier einzuschüchtern indem er mit seinen Mercedes Kombi versucht hat, mich und die Hunde beim Training mit dem MTB schlicht und einfach zu überfahren.

War ja nicht der erste Versuch,  aber diesmal hatte ich wenigstens Zeugen, mal sehen ob die Polizei jetzt endlich was unternimmt. Mir persönlich hat es auf jeden Fall endgültig gereicht und eine Warnung das der nächste Versuch dieser Art ernsthafte Konsequenzen hat, wurde von mir persönlich zugestellt. Hoffentlich haben die Herrschaften jetzt verstanden, dass Sie uns einfach in Ruhe zu lassen haben. Mal sehen.

Und ebenfalls in der heutigen Nacht gab es ein extrem erfreuliches Ereignis. Da es Bonitas erstes Mal war, könnte man sagen, wird sie im Laufe des Tages in ihrem Blog darüber ausführlich schreiben.  Und irgendwann heute gibt es dann auch ein Update im Trainingsdiary, denn wir trainieren selbstverständlich die ganze Zeit weiter, nur bin ich nicht zum Schreiben gekommen.

Have fun

hat die offensichtlich total missratene angeheiratete Verwandtschaft, sprich der Schwiegersohn des Sheriffs von Storsund, wieder mal versucht uns hier einzuschüchtern indem er mit seinen Mercedes Kombi versucht hat, mich und die Hunde beim Training mit dem MTB schlicht und einfach zu überfahren.

War ja nicht der erste Versuch,  aber diesmal hatte ich wenigstens Zeugen, mal sehen ob die Polizei jetzt endlich was unternimmt. Mir persönlich hat es auf jeden Fall endgültig gereicht und eine Warnung das der nächste Versuch dieser Art ernsthafte Konsequenzen hat, wurde von mir persönlich zugestellt. Hoffentlich haben die Herrschaften jetzt verstanden, dass Sie uns einfach in Ruhe zu lassen haben. Mal sehen.

Und ebenfalls in der heutigen Nacht gab es ein extrem erfreuliches Ereignis. Da es Bonitas erstes Mal war, könnte man sagen, wird sie im Laufe des Tages in ihrem Blog darüber ausführlich schreiben.  Und irgendwann heute gibt es dann auch ein Update im Trainingsdiary, denn wir trainieren selbstverständlich die ganze Zeit weiter, nur bin ich nicht zum Schreiben gekommen.

Have fun

Det har varit en ledig helg med bilresa till Uppsala där vi hälsade på min vän Sosso, som hade inflyttningsfest. Riktigt mysigt, avslappnat med mycket trevliga människor. Sedan passade vi på att resa förbi Surahammar på vägen hem, där Maddes (vår hunds) kennel låg. Uppfödaren hade inte sett henne sedan hon var valp, så Malin och hon hade mycket att prata om.

Riktigt roligt att Merkel lyckades så bra i valet!

Jag vill också passa på att tacka för allt stöd jag har fått via mail, facebook, sms med mera för mitt medlemsskap i KD. Det värmer och betyder jättemycket

schlich sich der erste richtige Frost in den Boden. Es ist Herbst.

Die ersten beiden Bilder zeigen vereistes Gras und Heidekraut – leider auf den Bildern nicht so gut zu erkennen. Die restlichen zeigen den Himmel über und rings um Storsund. Alle Fotos sind heute morgen zwischen etwa 6:00 und 6:30 entstanden… Unglaublich wie unterschiedlich der Himmel in verschiedene Richtungen fotografiert und mit wenigen Minuten Abstand aussehen kann!