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Well…it’s not Cassidy’s…another mare at her barn gave birth last night! WHOOHOOO!!!! I drove by the barn around 6:30am and parked at the front of Jingle’s pasture. I couldn’t see real clear because it was still a bit dark but, sure enough, there was a baby! I ran up to make sure mom and baby [...]

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For several weeks I’ve been taking my cattledog pup, Eva, when I go to the barn in the mornings. This horse thing has gotten in the way of the intense training I had been doing with her so I’m trying to combine some of it. Eva is just 1 year old and very full of [...]

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Scottie is calling Leo Laporte’s show today so he can pick his brain about setting up a live cam to keep an eye on Cassidy while we await the birth of her foal. We figured Leo might want to check out the blog, and of course our girl insisted on taking a special photo just [...]

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The day after Oprah’s show on puppymills, Scottie uploaded his documentary from 2002 onto YouTube. In two weeks, it’s been viewed almost 7,000 times! He’s also set up a new site, PetStoreTruth.com, that we are going to use to spread the word about pet stores and puppymills. The documentary features our two girls I mentioned [...]

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Butt scratching and a lunchtime trot… what more could you ask for?

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Greetings from Cassidy April Land! Things have been going smoothly with our pretty girl. We’ve gotten into a good daily routine. I spend a couple hours in the mornings, grooming and bonding with her. I quickly stop in early afternoon time to check on her and give her some much appreciated lunch. Then at the [...]

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Yesterday I was able to clean out Cassidy’s hooves! I’ve been working with her to pick up her front feet (haven’t tried the back ones) and I got so motivated I decided we were going to pick them out. Her attitude was great but she was still giving me a hard time when picking up [...]

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Puppymills was the subject today on the Oprah show. Everyone of us in the dog rescue world were glued to our tv’s, I’m sure. I am grateful that a person with the influence of Oprah is now on our bandwagon. I was a bit confused as to how she had not known anything about puppymills [...]

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Well, today was the first time since Cassidy got here that I have not been able to go to the barn. It felt sort of strange. I’ve gotten very used to the routine of grooming her and spending quality time in the quiet of her pasture. I’ll get over there for her lunchtime. I had [...]

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