Jackal's June Trick Video, New Blog Layout & Cute Storm!

Some of you may read posts in Google Reader like I do and may not notice my new blog design, so if you wouldn't mind could you hop over to my blog and let me know what you think? I really like the new banner. I hope it works on everyone's screens. Mine is widescreen so it might be too wide if you have a normal screen or smaller resolution.

I finally got a video of Jackal doing his June trick, go to bed. He's only worked on it a few times and already does it really well. It's short so I hope you can all see it.


After taking the video I reviewed all of Jackal's monthly tricks for the year and he did so well!! He did every single one of them! Crawl, Shy (needs work or refreshing), Fetch Leash, Close Door (needed encouragement and review on this one) and Marching Paws. I was so proud of him.

Oh and I also wanted to show you why I don't get exercise and Storm doesn't get trained . . .

She's always stealing my Yoga mat. :D

P.S. At the beginning of the video I was talking about Jackal being sore. He was limping on his left rear leg, but he worked out of it, so either he slept on it wrong or it was from earlier during our bike ride when Storm tangled her leash in his legs. Regardless he's fine now. :)

Sunday Stills - The Letter F

This week's challenge for Sunday Stills was the letter F. I was so looking forward to this challenge because our new horse's name is Faran. :D However due to having to go out of town I didn't get any pictures . . . so I'm resorting to archives which I hate to do, but I don't want to miss another Sunday Stills.


Also a Storm updated . . . she got out again! She was gone for hours and I about gave myself heat stroke looking for her. She finally did come back unharmed thank goodness! The good news is I found out how she was getting out. She was actually climbing over the fence, which I what I had suspected. So she will only go outside supervised or will be tied up from now on, until we can replace the section of the fence that's sagging. I'm just glad she's okay. I've been taking her for runs with the bike every single day. You'd think she'd be too tired to run off. Especially since it's been 102-103F everyday with a heat index of up to 115F because of the dang humidity. We need some rain!! Anyway that's all for now. I know I'm totally late on posting Jackal's trick of the month. I'll try to get a video of his progress on going to his bed soon, but for now I'm going to go ahead and put the poll up. I'm only leaving it up a couple of days because we were already supposed to have been working on his new trick for several days now. Please vote!

Storm is in the doghouse . . .

I'm so upset with Storm right now (but I'm getting over it). She climbed the fence out of her yard, went around the house to the backyard, broke into two of my chicken pens and killed ALL of my chickens. There were three or four mixed breed chickens in the pasture that are still alive, but all of the important chickens are dead. We were using these chickens to reestablish a dying breed so they were pretty special (only three people in the United States have any of these birds). I have no idea how she got into the pens. They were secured really well. So well that we hadn't had any opossums or raccoons get into it. :( So she's in trouble, but I can't scold her because she'll have no clue why I'm upset since I didn't catch her in the act. I settled with brushing her (she's blowing her coat heavily due to firework induced anxiety) since she hates that. I think I'll give her a bath tomorrow. Naughty dog!