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07 Friday Jun 2013

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A little bit of nostalgia

17 Friday May 2013

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Parmalat, Prairie, Runty, Sweety, wolfie

IMG_0081This squeezes my heart a little… or actually, rather a lot.  

It’s hard to tell size in photographs, but to give you a better idea,
these sweet little guys are in an egg box.
Normally an egg box holds a few cartons of eggs, but in this case it held:
A heating pad, a wool vest, and five chubby 10 day old puppies.
Their ears have just come down at this point,
but their eyes remain tightly closed.

It was their birthday yesterday, they turned Seven!
Sometimes I wonder what their reaction would be,
if I offered them a warm bottle now….

♥

To read more about these five little orphans:
https://thelonelydogs.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/this-used-to-be-their-favorite-mode-of-transport/

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Quietly watching over the day’s close

22 Friday Mar 2013

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Prairie

IMG_5407What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs.
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad day light,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at beauty’s glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can,
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

-W. H. Davies

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There is just no fooling a dog’s nose

22 Friday Feb 2013

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Prairie, Runty

IMG_3414I had silently inched the window open so that I could sneak a photo of these two having an adorable brother & sister moment… but they were onto me like a Christmas pudding!  The next photo in the would be series (which is a complete blur, and mostly of the ceiling) has the window thrust wide open and both dogs trying to climb through into my protesting arms, amidst a frenzy of kisses, snuffles, and snorts.

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The bringer of sunshine on cloudy days

30 Friday Nov 2012

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Prairie

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All afternoon he dreamt of the lone paw

04 Friday May 2012

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Prairie, Rocket

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The beginning of a curious friendship

13 Friday Apr 2012

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Peaches, Prairie

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This used to be their favorite mode of transport

12 Monday Mar 2012

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Parmalat, Prairie, Runty, Sweety, wolfie

My heart goes thump each time I see this photo.

I found these Five little babies discarded in a drainage ditch, Six years ago come May. They were only a day old at the time, their first moments of life in this big wide world. Their little eyes were closed so tight, their little ears folded back flush against their heads, their little noses and paws were pink with newness, they were so small, so helpless, so cold, and so hungry.  They were mewing like kittens for their mama, a mama that they had been cruelly separated from by human hands.

This is when life changed for me, abruptly, in a heartbeat. I took them home and bottle fed them (every hour for the first few days, every two hours for the week following that) and I learned, despite of how scared and doubtful I was of myself, how to be a mother to Five orphaned puppies, one day at a time.

I have them all still; Wolfie, Runty, Parmalat, Prairie & Sweety, and my heart goes thump each and every time one of them tucks their wet nose into the crook of my arm and looks up at me with their big gentle eyes, or every time one of them super excitedly kisses me awake in the morning, or every time one of them asks to be held on my lap like they are still only a day old..  or really, honestly, every moment of each beautiful day with them.

My heart goes thump.

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Breakfast at the ranch

29 Wednesday Feb 2012

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Bombay, Christmas, Osita, Pal, Parmalat, Peaches, Pepper, Prairie, Rocket, Runty, Striper, Sweety, Tootsie, Wednesday, wolfie

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Their collars dry in the cactus garden

17 Friday Feb 2012

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Bombay, Christmas, Osita, Pal, Parmalat, Peaches, Pepper, Prairie, Rocket, Runty, Striper, Sweety, Tootsie, Wednesday, wolfie

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