About a week ago I was contacted by Daniele at Petable-Portraits.com regarding Daniele doing a portrait of one of my dogs. Since I have a ton of pictures of Beau, and Ranger isn’t done turning into a little dog yet (he’s going through some crazy growth spurts), I chose Beau as the subject of the…
Today I got to briefly meet a very cool Cowboy, Mr. John Wayne Haynes. He is traveling from his home in Michigan to New Mexico to visit his family. His is no ordinary road trip, however, as he is on horseback (2-year-old Misty, and Appaloosa). and is accompanied by his pack horse (Harley, 23, another…
I’m quite pleased with how Ranger is adjusting to his new life here as well as the new skills he’s learned in the past few weeks. He was having issues with housetraining (he still has a few, admittedly), however that has gotten better now that he understands what the bells that hang on the door…
NALC Tree Dog Champion NWDA Weight Pull Champion UKC Conformation Grand Champion UKC United Weight Pull Champion UKC Coursing Aptitude Multiple Group Placer UKC Top Ten 2009–#8 Louisiana Catahoula Leopard Dog UKC Top Ten Finals Invitational–Top Ten Best of Breed 2009 United Kennel Club Total Dog Awardee
UWP CH J Cross’ Currahee Louisiana Catahoula Leopard Dog United Kennel Club Conformation Champion Red Leopard, buff trim, and white Hazel eyes D.O.B.- 2008/07/15 Breeder: Tori Earls, J Cross Catahoulas
Mr. Ranger has started Puppy Kindergarten at a local trainer, Training Tracks. This past spring Beau completed a class through Training Tracks to help me learn the basics of clicker training and he did very well–he’s a much faster learner than I am. Ranger is taking to the clicker very well and I can see…
Last night I was visited by some friends (Carlye and Craig from Cross Check Catahoulas). They left a new little friend at my house, a littermate to their own little girl “J Cross’ Ammunition”. J Cross’ Currahee–a.k.a. “Ranger”.
The PBS Program “Across Indiana” (produced by WFYI, Indianapolis) came out at the end of August to shoot some footage of the park where I work and live (well, the Park end of it. the other end, Brookville Lake, is 16,000 acres with 5,000 of that in water). We spent 8 hours out on the…
Sunday night SE Indiana/SW Ohio was rocked by the remnants of Hurricane Ike. I lost power from 2:15 Sunday until 10:30 last night (I celebrated Beau’s 8th “Homecoming Day” in the dark with him on the 16th). I was all right since I have enough food on hand to survive a zombie uprising, plus I…
One of the projects I’m currently involved with–and why this site hasn’t had much by way of updates this season–is hosting the Vietnam Memorial Moving Wall as it visits Whitewater Memorial State Park in September. This is a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington D.C.
