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White Squirrels
Our friend over at Mountain Musings posted yesterday about a new squirrel threat and I urge all of our furry squirrel hunters to pay very close attention to this. They are now discovering camouflage for winter conditions. Check this out: This is particularly concerning to The Herd because these are pictured in Brevard, NC, which…
Read Today's Herd StoryHappy Birthday, Natasha!
Wooo! Queen Natasha the Evil turns SIX years old today. Very, very hard to believe for all of us. We keep expecting maturity to kick in some day. To celebrate her birthday, we have some of our favorite pictures of her through the years: Confident, even at 8 weeks old Resisting temptation for once in…
Read Today's Herd StoryGuard Dogs
Siberian Huskies have a reputation of being lousy guard dogs. But our cousin Tartok is an excellent guard dog. Our humans go over to Tartok’s house (also know as our hu-dad’s parent’s house – so our hu-grandparents) on Saturday nights for dinner. Tartok loves the visit and guards the door. Not from intruders, but trying…
Read Today's Herd StorySharing the Trail
As regular followers of the blog know, we like hiking on all sorts of trails around our house, in the Pisgah National Forest (or click here for an unofficial website) and on the Blue Ridge Parkway plus the numerous other parks and trails in our area. We do not hike in the Great Smoky Mountains National…
Read Today's Herd StorySquirrels for Peace
This is just wrong, but we saw it on a t-shirt in the Mast General Store (we don’t blame the store – they give us biscuits every time that we go in): We are particularly impressed that they have a flying squirrel on the shirt, since the only squirrels we have are the “air force”…
Read Today's Herd StoryKing of Mischief
I grabbed the camera last night because a massive game of tag / zoomies had broken out. Rusty was the instigator, but soon there was a swirling mass of fur racing around the den, out onto the porch and back, wooing at full lung power. And where was Rusty after starting this fracas? Laying on…
Read Today's Herd StoryBreakfast Faces
Abuse, we tell you, abuse. You see, we have to sit before we get our breakfast. And sit after the food is on the ground before we are told, “Ok.” It is absolute torture, trust us, to have food in front of you but having to wait. This morning, it went to a totally new…
Read Today's Herd StoryMore shedding
We shared with you recently Natasha’s shedding pictures. She was quite incensed that we would display her unkept look, so, as a Sibe, she wants to make sure that we share pictures of her sister, Kiska. Kiska is particularly challenging because she is a wooly coat. So when she sheds, you get lots and lots…
Read Today's Herd StoryWalking Wednesday
We had a good hike on Sunday with all sorts of twists. We encountered a train, a couple of really big dogs, and Rusty was in a particularly playful mood. So, we bring you Walking Wednesday (filmed on Sunday):
Read Today's Herd StoryVisitors
Why, of course, we had visitors. Unfortunately, despite all of the comments, Holly did not come and visit us. We did get a very gracious email from Holly yesterday and thank her for that. After breakfast Sunday morning, Karen Ramstead and several others stopped by to say hello and The Herd was really pleased to…
Read Today's Herd StoryMayhem and Waiting
First up, a really cool sign we saw as we passed the Bristol Motor Speedway on the way to the Tennessee Working Dog Symposium put on by our good friends at Siberian Husky Assist: Woo – We can certainly cause some mayhem, but do you really think people would take advantage of free parking to…
Read Today's Herd StoryA Cool Day
Yesterday, we went to the Tennessee Working Dog Symposium sponsored by Siberian Husky Assist and met some celebrities: Dr. Al Townshend, DVM, presented two courses – one on dog nutrition and one on Orthopedic care for Working Dogs. He has years of experience as a veterinarian at the Iditarod, and has received the coveted “Golden Stethescope…
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