We thought we were done with more dogs until we got a call from our 'former son' who lives in RI. They had bought a Kerry Blue Terrier and named her Piper. Living in a basic suburb they soon discovered that the dogs needs lots of exercise and room to play. These are criteria that did not fit their situation. At 1 year old, she was a handful.  So, "Dad, if you don't take her we will have to send her to the pound" scenario came up. Yup, suckers, we took the dog. We love her to death and she get...
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By the time we moved back to Maine from NY, we were down to 3 wolfhounds and Callie. Then, just before we moved, a "friend" brought over a border collie pup-that was mean as my wife is a sucker for pups. Having lost 10 dogs over the years-all, except one, to age, the idea of more dogs was not my favorite topic. Obviously, with so many dogs, it was hard to get away for any long stretch. Also, at the time we had 7 horses (another story for later), chickens, goats, etc.  But, a cute puppy was no...
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Animals have been a major part of my life since the 80's.  I will share some of our adventures and photos of these wonderful friends.
Meet Callie. She is 8. When we lived in way Upstate NY, near Canada, Callie plopped into our lives. Keeping in mind that at the time we had 13 very large wolfhounds. Callie was very small. It was the day before Thanksgiving, and lightly snowing.  Deb went out to get some stuff in the a.m. and said there was a little dog at the end of the drive-which was 1,000 ...
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