Low Cost Kennel Help

Time Flies

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:01:30 GMT

Been a long time...I don't even know where to begin! Except now I actually have a facebook page, welcome to the computer age. New puppies, new dogs. My beloved Toy Fox Emily died (Valcopy Cassidy's Emily) having a c-section. Well, it wasn't the section that did it, it was because she had ruptured before I could get her to the vet. It all happened so fast, and of course it was Sunday afternoon. She had 3 puppies in her, but 1 had been dead for awhile.We saved 2:Aleta and Trojan. And just last week Trojan went to his very first 2 shows, Seattle Kennel Club, and took the major both days! No one knows, really, just how much that meant to me. All i could think about was Emily, and that I promised her the day she died I would keep her babies forever, and do whatever it took to bring them to their full potential. I think Emily would have been proud.

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:30:23 GMT

I get up out of bed, slowly, feeling 100 years old at least, and walk to the bathroom. "Morning, Satan", I nod stiffly to the rat sitting up on his hind legs on the floor by the space heater. He nods back, eyes glittering, and resumes eating the piece of dogfood in his paws. I finish, and go out to the kitchen. He follows,hopeful for food. He is a hairless, one of my pets that escaped early this summer, the one I've been chasing around the property for weeks now. He is beautiful, actually, now that I can see more then just his stiff, upright tail as he dashes away from me.He is also clever, a ratty characteristic that has stood him in good stead all these months. I can't trap him, poisen him, or kill him. So if you can't beat em, join em, so to speak. I have a plan...

Sleepless in Entiat...

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:55:15 GMT

Scratch, scratch, scuttle, scratch...I lay in bed all last night and listened to the evil rat mock me. Who knew such a small, inocent-seeming, gentle sort of animal could actually be the Devil. Yes, Satan,
I do hate your guts....He pops the traps, steals the bait, leaving his calling cards scattered all around...Then makes noise all night in the walls. My Poodle, Emma, likes to wait until we're drifting off when, Blam! she hears the evil one and yips directly into our ears. I think my heart stopped several times last night.Norman now sleeps with the pillow jammed over his head. Yes, Satan, we sat up and plotted your death until dawn, when you finally shut up and went away (sorta). It's fitting that its almost Halloween, and I'm hosting the Devil in my house. Since traps don't faze you, Decon is going in the walls, were the dogs can't reach it but you seem to like to lurk. Die...

Rat Wars

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:30:28 GMT

Okay, this is war...I stepped out onto my front porch and stepped on that rat.It screamed, I screamed, the dog in my arms screamed...Apparently Rat was unhurt as it bit my toe, and ran off under the outdoor parrot cage...This is it, Rat is going Down! I spent an hour trying to catch it by hand, me on my knees in the dust and rat just out of reach...crazy woman muttering and swearing and lunging around, good thing the porch is somewhat shielded from the road...put a hole in the knee of my sweat pants...Then, norman opens the sliding door and sticks his head out..."What the hell are you doing?" and, too late, the Rat Bastard ran in the house and under the couch... oh my God... This is it, it's war, it's me or the rat...

Long,long time...

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:16:24 GMT

It's been a long time since I could post. It's been a war zone around here. The economy truly stinks, and it's getting harder and harder to make a living. Know anyone who wants a motorcycle? We have a 1999 Harley Havidson Softail, loaded, twin seats and lots of leathers, low miles, $9000.00. If we can sell it, we might make it thru the winter, so please, if anyone out there knows someone who wants one, please give them our e-mail, or call 509-670-5157.
Not all is gloomy. We're expecting the arival of a nice litter from our Raidar Min-Pin. I'm experimenting with his fathers bloodlines, the number one Toy Soldier dog (Raidars sire, he's the number 1 miniature pinscher in the US, and has been for 2 years, and is a Sire of Merit) We love these little dogs, and they make the most wonderful, loving pets and no, they don't bark all the time! That's a myth...Momma dog is Piper, out of our CH. Emmy Lou.Piper is a black and tan, Raidar is a stag red, I'm really hoping to get a chocolate...
Rat Wars. We've been attacked by pet rats. Clever little beasts, 3 of them escaped their cages this summer, and they have been multiplying. Kinda like that book, The Rats of Nimh...I've trapped humainly the 3 original ones, but they have bred, and I've seen 4 more. Of those 4, I've caught 3 (again humainly, when I catch them off they go to the local pet shop), but one lives on the front porch and is thumbing his nose at me. Clever...
I've been weaving like a spider for the anual Entiat Bazaar in November, and since I'm known for my unusual and creative scarves, I've been knitting 24/7.I'm trying to be as different as possible, which for me isn't hard...Just ask anyone, I'm the strangest person in Entiat. I consider that a compliment...

Planet Entiat

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:58:08 GMT

The term, 3rd rock from the sun, is so true right now. It was 103 yesterday...I keep the water on constantly, just move it around as needed, and this green island in the middle of the concrete jungle has indeed exploded. A couple of my fancy colored rats escaped a month ago, and are giving me a headache trying to catch them. Did you know that rats can run like little racehorses when they want to? Tails straight up, they leap and gyrate wildly at a remarkable rate of speed. I've had to give up the idea of trying to run them down...
So I set little food traps around the yard, but they are smarter then me every time. i really don't want to set traps and kill them, so we are trying humane traps. But they don't work very well, either. Now the blue-headed white one gets up on the porch and forages under the bird cage for food, but the minute he hears my step he's up and bolted. I'm setting traps under the cage now...
so, in the green evenings in adition to the birds singing and plants swaying, we get to watch the rats spinning and dashing thru the grass. So peaceful...

Planet Entiat

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:47:06 GMT

This is a very small town. Where else in the world could you find a more diverse, yet strangely predictable, group of people?Case in point: tonight was a a city council meeting, very explosive and controversal, about an explosive topic that has the whole town in an uproar. Predictable, the people at the heart of the mess show up in fine form, loud and rude. The council had to weanie out of making any definate statements because the council is made up of wafflers, and the people that should have shown up, that could have made a difference, didn't. How predictable. It makes me tired, city polatics. But, what can you do?
My house is an island in the midst of the controvercy. It's finally dark, after a very hot, bright day, peaceful and cool. YThe night birds are out and noisy, joyful, beautiful.And it's so green, even in the dark! Plants have exploded, we are a green island in the middle of the city concrete. We are alive...

Planet Entiat

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:58:12 GMT

Thought for the day: A boy is a noise covered in dirt, a man is a louder noise covered in Old Spice, and an old man is a rude noise covered in Ben Gay. Hahahahahaha

Rat Tails

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:35:58 GMT

Morticia has always been a very small rat. When she was born, she was half the size of her brothers and sisters, and I was sure she would'nt survive. But she did. Her intelligance was evident at a very young age, very quiet, always staring and thinking. When the food bowl is put down morning and night the others jam themselves over it, each one fighting for a bite and no one getting any while they wrestle and roll about. Meanwhile Morticia quietlt slides in, packs her mouth full like a hamster, and takes off for the corner to enjoy her food. Brothers and sisters get a drink by falling in the water bowl: she gets a drink by delicatly leaning over, careful to keep her whiskers clean.Sometimes i swear she's thinking things over when she stares quietly at me. Sorta eerie...

Rat

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:26:49 GMT

Morticia has always been a very small rat. when her and

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:28:22 GMT

It wouldn't be so bad working at Sears if it wasn't so hot in here.I feel like I'm walking around inside a wool blanket, I have no idea why Sears feels you need to sweat to shop. I;ve heard in the middle of the summer it's pretty unbearable, but there to cheap to fix the air conditioners. Isn;t that my luck?

Jessie told me a very cute quote from Mark Twain : A boy is a noise covered in dirt: so,whats a man? A louder noise slathered in Old Spice? Maybe...

planet entiat

Tue, 18 May 2010 03:40:25 GMT

Today I got up at 5, after sleeping all night with 8 dogs (7 min-pins and a toy fox). You would think that would would be uncomfortable, but actually the dogs are warm and very soothing...No one ever sneaks up on us, that's for sure...Anyway, up at 5, let the other dogs out, do laundry, get ready for work, leave by 7 to do some cencus work before heading to Sears Automotive to punch in bt 945. Work all day(Very hot, Sears doesnt believe in in air conditioning) Leave work at 6 to go home to Entiat and work on the census till 10. i am very tired. I get up tomorrow and do it all over again...what happens if I get sick?

Thu, 13 May 2010 00:07:46 GMT

So, what do you get when you cross Facebook with My Space? My Face! Ha,ha,ha,ha, Well, I thought it was funny...Seen and heard at Sears, to bad it's an old joke and I first thought of it...Who ever made the playlist for the Muzak at Sears should be shot...Makes me want to stick a pencil in my eye...

Rat Tails...

Wed, 12 May 2010 23:00:20 GMT

Funny how fast things change...This morning, not good, and then ! I get a call from PetCo with a job interview in the morning. Wow...Since they are eliminating my job status in a few weeks by eleminating my job as a CSA at Sears Automotive, I\v beemn worried. I guess God does provide...
My rats are doing wonderfully, I have 3 little hairless ones in this last batch, and the little hairless male is also a dumbo! Wow...

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:13:14 GMT

"I'm Dancing as fast as I Can" is the name of a book I read years ago, and my life has become that book. Today is the last day (Friday) of the 2010 Census class. At noon, I go from there to my job at Sears. I close Sears, then go out in the field for 2 or 3 hours and do census work.Tomorrow, Satuday, I open and close at Sears, then go out to the field and do census work. Same as sunday, monday, tuesday...Yes, i suppose i'm getting a little bitter. My off time is spent trying to figure out how to pay the growing pile of bills that stormin Towing just cant seem to make enough money to pay. i feel like my rat. Circling, circling...In small moments I try to relax by knitting, but it's hardly worth it anymore since now Jessie refuses to put up my work. I'll try to learn how, myself, since it's one of the few things I really enjoy is that Etsy page. When i'll have time to go to Tacoma and learn i don't know...I can't leave my jobs even for one day, 'cause that's one day less of pay and the bills just keep climbing...I am my rat...

Rat tails

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:55:13 GMT

I raise rats. I almost hate to admit that...people tend to think I'm strange enough as it is. but i do, i have rats and they make the greatest pets. i have a brindle girl that I bred myself, who is so smart shes scary. She thinks.she got away from me twice last winter and ended up outside, yet somehow survived and ended up ontop of the rabbit cage where i found her. fat. She got out of her cage yesterday, and somehown drug 8 of her 10 babies up to the top shelf above the cages, tore up some paper, and found a food source ,dogfood, and had a small pile next to her babies...

The Crested Diaries

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:05:29 GMT

Id forgotten how high pitched and shrill the Crested bark can be, but Easa has reminded me.Large parrots are quieter...she likes to bark at leaves, rocks, a cloud drifting by. It doesn't matter and she's not picky, but she's diplomatic. Everything gets the full force effect.She's not dumb, however. I've introduced her to The Crested Swatter (AKA fly swatter). She's never struck, just threatened. After just a few trys she's learned to keep one eye out for the sliding glass door to suddenly fling open and out pops the Swatter. But, when the door closes she's off again. She's not dumb, just very dedicated to voicing her opinions as loudly and often as possible...

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:40:06 GMT

Easa Moon is a very good girl. She is the best traveling dog of any breed I have ever had.She's my new Chinese Crested, a breed I havn't had for over 10 years. I'm visiting both my daughters in Tacoma, and I brought her to keep up on her coat, and I brought my little toy poodle just for company.She has been washed in Pantene, conditioned in Pantene, and combed thru with split end conditioner to stabilize her coat. She is very patient with all the combing, I really think she likes all the attention.She is quiet, and patient. At home, however, she was horrified by her first look at our great dane and peed herself, at least she was already outside when she did it. She tolorates Penelope now, but is not fond of her and shows her her teeth is she comes to close to her pen. Penelope ignores her as she mostly ignores the other little dogs, so it doesn't really matter.I think she thinks she's a rat.

Monster movies

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:44:45 GMT

Most monster movies are pretty dumb. I love the Sci-Fi channel, so consider myself an arm chair expert of sorts. People in them deserve to get eaten! Like on the Beast of Bray Road. If your out parked at night in the woods, why are your windows open?!It's dark, you've heard rumurs of a monster out there eating people, so off you go at midnight to park in the remote corner of some awful hick county, and your windows are open. Also, just for fun, you get out and investigate the growling noise coming from the back of your car...with a flashlight. No weapon, but if you do have a gun and fire off a few dozen rounds, they just bounce off the monster and make him madder. Oh, no, it's an 80 foot Anaconda that can slither faster then a jeep?! You even run over it a few times, which doesn't even scratch a scale. So you scream like a girl and try to run but trip and fall and get caught.I don't know about you, but for me...if I tripped running from an awful monster, I would bounce up like a jack-rabbit and be sprinting out of there, not lying on the ground yelling. Feet don't fail me now, you want to see fast see me running from a Where-Wolf. I would not be caught 'cause I'd be off like a sportscar. And if I had a Jeep and ran it over it would have skid-marks and be flattter then a pothole. I love the movies where they finally defeat the monster or dinosaur or snakeman and it's lying on the ground but you know good and well it's not dead,no sir, and the hero is trotting around bragging and your going, like, 'hey man, cut off it's head!' Nothing like cutting off the monsters' head to make sure it's really dead. There'd be no getting up and eating the hero then! Cut off the damm head and now it's really dead. Like Dino-Croc, if they'd just sliced off his head after the train ran him over, he wouldn't have got up and chased them down the road...Drives me nuts. I like Alien, because sometimes the monsters get it too. Or the hero gets badder, like Sigourney Weaver in Aliens 4. To make her an Alien-cross and have Alien powers in that last movie was sheer briliance...She's not screaming and falling down.(Not to bad, in the last movie she gets to fight back and kick some Alien butt.)

Notes from the Low Cost kennel help

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:07:27 GMT

Isadoras baby is cute, healthy and, best of all, still alive! For anyone who knows anything at all about breeding Chihuahuas, the latter is a good thing, not always a happening thing. It's part of breeding the round headed, show quality, extreme dogs that just are not as healthy as the more taco-bell types. But little Toad, as i call him, is alive and well and starting to eat solid food but is of course still nursing. Now i have to worry about him sugaring down, as he gets older...
Baby Min-Pins, Kat and Peru, Jazzy and Raidars' babies, are doing great, still nursing but eating solid food and growing like weeds. My friend Brenda bought Peru, and can't wait to get her new baby. Little Piper got her ears cropped, they are a fight to get up and are a bit crinkly at the edges, but were working on them. Wed. she gets the stitches out, I hope that helps.We tape them to dixie cups to get the edges straight, so now her nick name is 'cuppie-guppie' Poor dog...
I'm working part time at Sears, in the auto dept, and i love it. It's a perfect fit, what with the tow company and all.

News from Planet Entiat

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:00:39 GMT

Isadora had her puppy, a smooth-coat male. He is beautiful, looks like Alice.I am keeping him as long as he's show quality, and so far, so good.
I've been working on a lace-weight alpaca knitted skirt-dress, not sure which yet. after 3 months work(?) it's a skirt. But I'm debating on making it a slip dress.Depends on how much patience I have.Monroe dog show is next weekend, and the Sisters are entered. It's not a major, but we'll take the singles, if possible.Next weekend after is thanksgiving, and the Bainbridge Island craft show. Do i take a longer skirt, or a slip dress? i don't know if it's possible to finish it as a dress in three weeks.I'm working on size 1 needles, very tiny, so it takes forever...

Babies,babies...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:30:05 GMT

Sorry it's been so long since I posted, but we've been so busy. We have babies! Lots and lots of babies! Miniature Pinschers CH. Emmy Lou and Raidar have a litter of 3, which is now 9 weeks old. i sold the two boys as pets, but kept the black and tan girl, Piper. She is wonderful, and scary at how smart she is. Like a miniature adult dog, she has never acted like a puppy.I've named her Stormin' Wicked, and it suits her...Jazzy and raidar have a 3 day old litter of 2 girls. So far, so good, but I worry since her first litter of 1 puppy didn't make it past 3 days. Keeping my fingers crossed. Chihuahua Isadora (AKA Isadoka)is due any minute with a repeat of my Alice and Bella litter inside of her, by CH. Nickey. Wish she would hurry up and have them...
I have more baby rats, and this time some are hairless, which is what I'm breeding for. there mom was bred back to her hairless father, and I think 3 of the 11 babies are hairles. I'm working on breeding healthy pet hairless rats that breed true. Sarah came home with 3 pet mice, I'm hoping one is at least female and they'll have babies. I would like to breed hairless mice, but I can't find any. I'm hoping for a sport in there litter.

More brags...

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:53:34 GMT

I can't believe it, I have never, in all the years I've been breeding Chihuahuas and showing, have I ever had a dog win 6 times in 6 shows. Granted, Sunday at Richland KC, Alice went reserve winners, but I still consider that better then losing all the way. So, at the Toy Specialty in Enumclaw, Saturday was an entry of 7 smooth girls, which is spot on for a 3 point major. I was certain we would never get it. You could have knocked me over with a feather when Alice got it, and went on to Best Opposite as well as Winners bitch! And little Bella, her longcoat litter sister, got her first point by going Winners Bitch and best Opposite! Cool beans...Mario's longcoat dog Merlin, that Sarah is showing for him, took the Winners Dog point and went best of winners, so it was indeed a good day! Sunday Alice did it again and went Winners Bitch and Best of Winners for 2 more points, so as of this writing she has 6 shows under her belt, with a total of 9 points, 1 major.I am thrilled, to say the least.
This is the best litter i've ever bred, and it's sweet that CH. Nickey is the sire, especially after all the problems with finishing him we had.Isadora, there Mom, is pregnant once more by Nickey, so we will see what happens...

Traveling, traveling...

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:12:29 GMT

Alice did it again at the Richland Kennel club show, on Saturday she went winners bitch and best opposite for 2 more points, and on Sunday she went reserve (it was close!) She now has 4 points at 7 1/2 months old. Her sister Bella is still a little loser dog, but we can always hope...Chang is stinking so bad it's not worth showing him, losing, losing is all he does lately. I'm here at my daughter Jessie's house in Tacoma, as tomorrow is the Toy Specialty in Enumclaw. maybe Alice will do it again...and maybe Chang and Bella won't stink...
On the way up here today I stopped at the Monroe pet shop, and they had what I was hoping for, hairless rats! They were so cute! i bought a dumbo eared, blue partially hairless female, and a blond almost hairless female. They had a black, partial hairless male with dark blue skin and a black mohawk, he was goofy and i should have bought him, too. They are very tame, both females hold my finger when I put my hand in the cage and pat my skin. I really, truly don't understand why tame fancy rats aren't more popular, they are such loving little souls...
Well, tomorrow we are off to they shows. It's always so much more fun to win then lose...

Post Dog Show

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:40:04 GMT

The Wenatchee kC show is now over and history, and despite the pain it was fun. My Alice, Smooth-Coat Chihuahua puppy, won both days. She got best of breed over a male owned by a canadian judge and the open bitch who was a year older then her for her first point, at her first show! And went Winners on Sunday for her second point! I am so proud of her. She is my own breeding, born in my hand, which makes it so much sweeter.