2024-03-08 06:52
The very least of the rolling disaster that was our spring and summer, 2023, was the escape of Sneaky Fucker from the designated Pasture of Testicles, his breach of several layers of both wo… Read More
Blog Directory > Life Blogs > Raised By Wolves life Blog >
Raised By Wolves Blog
cynography.blogspot.com
Dogs. Dawgs. Other critters. Life as Oliver Wendell Douglas. Live heirlooms, both flora and fauna. Self-sufficiency. Suffering not a fool to live. Land stewardship. Turnip trucks, and those who have not fallen therefrom. Training things. Growing things. Search and rescue. What is this bug and what is it doing under my desk light?
Embracing the reality that Nature Bats Last.
2022-06-06 19:04
Brandywine Farm is currently occupied by a brawling, rolling, apparently drunken mob of Wee Free Men.Welcome to the Nac Mac Feegle, Clay-Over-Limestone Clan.Rob Anybody is the Big Man… Read More
2022-04-01 05:29
It’s working pretty great, thanks Read More
2022-03-16 03:00
It's time to get the old blogging gang back together.Like, well, practically everyone, I have fallen for the tempting grift of "less friction."Going into blogger, writing and editing a… Read More
2020-05-15 03:49
English shepherds love rules.The love being your goon and enforcing your rules -- whether or not you have asked them to do so -- and they love inventing rules of their own and then making it… Read More
2020-03-20 15:55
Motivated bold puppy is motivated and bold.Handler shit-eating grin is genuine.Chicken hat is awesome. Nobody slags on the chicken hat.Photo credit Michelle Silka-Eaton.For nearly three deca… Read More
2019-09-07 17:39
It's fun to mess with Our Friend Nancy. She's Minnesota Nice, a retired middle school teacher, and in the eighth grade I would have been the end of her. Douglas and I nearly were in Bil… Read More
2017-04-26 23:21
This week I've been head-desking over one of the latest self-justifications of decorative dog-fanciers, their claim that they are "preservation breeders." Been a lot of argle-bargle about th… Read More
2017-01-03 19:39
Nice cavaletti you got there. Be a shame if somethin' were to happen to it.I had briefly met Maryna's two Arabian geldings when Pip and I arrived to help set up the seminar at her Arizona ra… Read More
2017-01-02 02:55
Before I put the new buck goat in with the does, I needed to sort out some doelings who are too small to breed and transfer them to the getting swole pen with Ameera to babysit. My go-to guy… Read More
2015-10-30 01:57
Find the good apples in this big crate.Careful of the yellowjackets.I think it was early this summer that I started hearing it everywhere: someone in authority, someone who is entrusted with… Read More
2015-10-27 16:11
This Saturday, the last jolly crewmate launched on her own good ship. Miss Trudy has changed her identity to Pearl, and will be assisting Linda in life and dog training, herding a flock of d… Read More
2015-10-27 16:10
Has accomplished more in five years than many people ever will.Photo courtesy Jennifer KelleyFive years ago today, the great mass of 189 canine crime victims (plus those in utero) were forci… Read More
2015-10-27 16:08
The next generation of AMRG canine searchers shows how it is done.If you are lucky enough to be conscious when the search team finds you, this may be what you see just before life gets a who… Read More
2015-10-27 16:07
This week AMRG welcomed a new canine teammate to our roster.Teddy, nee Tad, is a career-change dog. Meticulously purpose-bred* and carefully raised to have the traits of a CCI "program dog,"… Read More
2015-09-30 07:12
I am fully appreciating why swine have so often been associated with the very mouth of Hell.When I bring the pigs their dinner, I first call them into their pasture for a bucket or two of bo… Read More
2015-07-13 23:37
What's it got to do with Puppy Probation?From structure comes respect. With respect, Chuckie earns freedom. Even the freedom to shamelessly pose in the landscape like friggin Lassie.I'v… Read More
2015-04-24 11:00
2015-04-21 18:10
When we lived on a half-acre in sprawlburbia*, the garden ran the show.I had productive dwarf heirloom apple, cherry and peach trees. Thornless canes grew blackberries as big as a kitten's h… Read More
2015-02-15 01:49
It has been a snowy but pretty normal winter up until today.I'm trying to replenish our depleted stock of firewood. We've replaced the never-satisfactory and now prematurely-dead Husqvarna c… Read More
2015-02-11 18:48
Video from Marineland Mallorca. Play it a couple times, we'll wait ...Here we see trainers at a corporate captivity-for-entertainment facility in Spain yelling at, kicking, and striking thei… Read More
2014-11-28 20:32
The pigs went on their first and last trailer ride yesterday.Loading pigs into a trailer is a famously difficult, dangerous, shit-spattered, squealing ball of stress. Accomplishing this when… Read More
2014-07-29 08:09
We can haz traction?There are three days left to help Lebowski out of his close second-place position in the quest to replace the abused floors in the Brandywine farmhouse.Vote here for Lebo… Read More
2014-07-24 09:10
Pigs are new to the farm this year.I was warned that I would find them very charming and clever and would get attached and cry into my bacon.So far, notsomuch, which is fine by me.They like… Read More
2014-07-18 06:33
Meet Lebowski.He's the new assistant "barn cat," by which we mean, cat whose food bowl is on top of the fridge in the barn well out of scamming dog range and who has whatever house privilege… Read More
2014-07-16 16:45
First published in the August 2013 Whole Dog Journal.Why, you ask, are all the subheads huge and a weird color, and also there are some errors in line spacing?Because Blogger says so, and sw… Read More
2014-04-10 06:47
Dad, are you sure I'm all polar bear?Yes, son, what else would you be?You -- you're a polar bear?Yes.And Mom, she's all polar bear?Of course.Grandma and grandpa, they are 100% polar bears?Po… Read More
2014-03-02 20:25
One of the many things for which I am indebted to my friend Rob McMillin is the education he has given me in the art and science of vetting charities based on their fiscal practices.For exam… Read More
2014-02-16 16:59
Our little ski/snowshoe party split up. Goldbrickers Perfesser Chaos and Aunt Barb continued skiing on the trail; Raindog Sophia and Charlie's big sister/niece (it's complicated) Annabelle s… Read More
2014-02-10 21:16
… someone big slides off the driveway into the south pasture.Our old oil supplier is no longer providing this service, so I warned the new guy that the driveway, though plowed, can be… Read More
2013-12-09 14:09
Gertrude Imogene Stubbs was meant to go to a farm home as a potential future dog mom.I later decided that Trudy is not a great prospect for carrying on the family. Not because she isn't heal… Read More
2013-09-07 03:25
Sunday was the four-week birthday of the Jolly Crew.Red Sonja. She is seal, not black. You are gonna have to trust me on this.Gertrude Imogene Stubbs. Daddy's girl. Really. She looks li… Read More
2013-08-31 06:14
The wild cherries ripen, black and fat,Paradisal fruits that taste of no man’s sweat.Reach up, pull down the laden branch, and eat;When you have learned their bitterness, they taste sw… Read More
2013-08-25 03:34
Moved the Jolly Crew into larger and more secure day digs today, and then plopped down in there with them.A little girl crawled into my lap and seemed entirely content as Rosie settled in to… Read More
2013-08-23 16:08
Once you get right in there, you're gonna find the dirt.Surfaces can be sterile or colonized in abundant life. Porous or inpenetrable. Transparent or opaque. Flat or polished to a reflectiv… Read More
Subscribe to Raised By Wolves
Get updates delivered right to your inbox!