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Which One is Mine?
Our Cousin Tartok was helping with the Independence Day cook-out over at our hu-grandparents house. He simply wants to make sure the burgers are cooked to his specifications. Amazingly, we were not invited to attend and our humans went without us. We are sure we would have been a huge help, but we were at…
Read Today's Herd StoryVisitor in the Brush
The mighty huntress, Queen Natasha, was once again at it on one of our hikes. We were at the observation deck on the top of a mountain when she thought she saw something in the brush. Not sure if she wanted to play with it or eat it: You! Over there! Come play! Crawling under…
Read Today's Herd StoryHappy Independence Day!
To all our fellow Americans, Happy Independence Day! And sharing a view down to “our” valley (we live just outside of the top left of the picture)
Read Today's Herd StoryClaiming the Good Spot
We have been blessed with some very nice weather this week with cool night time temperatures and steady morning breezes. Rusty may be our class clown, but he certainly knows how to claim the really good spot (with Qannik keeping his own rear toasty despite the morning breeze): Poor Kodiak, however, did not fare so…
Read Today's Herd StorySola, This One’s For You
Sola, Natasha wrestled this beast to the ground just for you and the “incident.“ Qannik also helped, but only, of course, once the coast was clear.
Read Today's Herd StoryThere Goes the Neighborhood
One weekend. One lousy weekend. We take off for a vacation, come home, and all sorts of unsavory characters have moved in. Well, maybe savory, but we did not get to taste. Kiska and Natasha were patrolling the fence line when – wait, what was that? Natasha focused in for a closer look. And the…
Read Today's Herd StoryMore Campground Visitors
Woo – Who is that over there? A cousin and his bodyguard We did not go meet them. Our cousin had a ferocious bodyguard, sort of like Huffle has Bazza except that this bodyguard actually made lots of noise and told us to go away. I mean, Huff, where was Bazza during the attack of…
Read Today's Herd StoryHeat, Apples and Security Guards
We went on our early morning hike and it was already hot and humid – yuck! Yesterday, our humans drove down into Ozzie territory – we went to the Mall of Georgia. Now, our humans really do not go to malls very often, partially because there aren’t any in our town and we have to…
Read Today's Herd StoryVisitors on our Morning Walk
Much hotter down here at Lake Hartwell State Park than it is at our house in Maggie Valley, so we are doing our hikes early in the morning and after sunset. Since we needed to get our walk done before the heat set in, we were very serious and focused. Ok, fair enough, Rusty is…
Read Today's Herd StoryLong Weekend
It has certainly been a difficult week. Wonder if Kiska would like to express her opinion of the week. Makes the boys jealous that you can pee higher on a tree than they can, huh, Kiska? Really not sure where you learned it, but it does keep the boys in check. Anyway, the weekend is rapidly…
Read Today's Herd StoryPrincess Dakota
Princess Dakota 8/15/97 – 6/24/09 Frankly, when we began blogging the activities of The Herd, we thought it would be a fun hobby. It truly is. What we did not expect was that we would form incredible friendships without actually meeting the other people and dogs in “real life.” So, we never had the opportunity…
Read Today's Herd StoryWhat is Qannik thinking?
Is running with K & R in the Rockies like running with The Herd in the Smokies? If this was Life with Dogs, we would have cute little balloon thoughts. Which does Bricey think is a worse first name – Snowflake (me) or Boris (Rusty)? Mostly, I am thinking of my beautiful twin sister Dakota. My special…
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