Dublin has to have dental work....

Poor little Dublin has to go have his lower baby canines pulled on Friday.
When I took him in for his second set of shots, the Vet noticed his teeth are not meeting well.

The right lower canine is pushing into the upper gum, it should be outside the gum line. There is a little purple spot where the tooth is hitting the roof of his mouth.

The left side is much better,(middle pic) both of the teeth are outside the gum like they are supposed to be.

Here it is again,(last picture) I wondered at first "Why do they have to pull both of them?" duh, to let the jaw grow symetrical you have to, so he will get them pulled on Friday. Hopefully this will correct the problem and his adult teeth will come in normal. He was so good while we held him and took pictures, just a little wiggly LOL.
(hmm I have to get used to this new blogger format)

News on Luxor !!!!!

We are so happy to get notice today that Luxor is in class!!!! He has a person, finally!!!

He will graduate from class on Nov. 14th! We will be there to see them graduate! And get to meet his person. This is the culmanation of raising a guide dog puppy, he made it!!

Whomever is getting him, is getting a really special dog!!!!

I will definately have pictures from his graduation!!!

For those of you that may be new to my blog our daughter Meghan raised Luxor and used that experience for her High School Senior Project.

We had Luxor through my brain tumor surgery and recovery, he even visited me in the Hospital.

Luxor went to school every day with Meghan, and to a WAHSET meet and everywhere that Meghan

went. We had him for 16 months before he went back to Guide Dogs for training.

Now he gets to fullfill his destiny.

Missing Guide Dog puppy....

Guide Dogs has a missing 3 month old puppy named Gannon in Lodi California. He is a black Lab and hopefully is found soon! He has tattoos in both ears so it would be pretty hard to hide what he is.
here is a link to all the info http://guidedogs.blogspot.com/2009/11/help-us-find-missing-gdb-puppy-gannon.html

For those of you that may be in that area.

More Dublin....

Dublin is getting big now! He weights 25lbs, and is 3 times bigger than Teddy, he was a little smaller than Teddy when we brought him home. He is starting to look like a big dog. Dublin has a canine tooth on the bottom left that is pressing into his gums, we are waiting on word from Guide Dogs on what to do, my Vet recommended that the tooth be pulled, so we are waiting and seeing what GD says. I have to take some photos of it to send to our club leader to send to GD.


Mom what are you doing now! LOL

Isnt he cute in his camo bandanna? He went with us on our drive last Sunday, he pretty much slept the whole day.

This was his spot for the whole drive LOL He was a very good puppy for being in the truck for 8 hours, with breaks of course.

Spend all that money on toys and his favorite is an old juice bottle LOL

He wasnt going to let go of it, this entertains him for a long time! I have had to throw one away so far because he about had the bottom chewed out of it.

Halloween Post, Dublins trip to the Pumpkin Patch....

On the way to the Pumpkin Patch we stopped to get fuel and there is a Pumpkin Patch and train ride next door. They have a really cute little blue train.

Last year they grew all the pumpkins, it looks like they bought some this year and scattered them through the field.

Dublin ready to go, with his orange bandanna on.

Never been to a Candy corn carnival LOL this sign was on the way to the Pumpkin Patch, at a Church.

Parking at Bi-Zi Farms, named for owner Bill Zimmerman. (oops posted one twice) The first striped tent is the pony ride, the next one way down there is the entrance, and you can see the top of the old homestead barn way in the middle, and at the top of this car on the far right, is the barn where we had dinner.

A pyramid of straw bales for the kids to climb.

Mud was a theme, it was a beautiful dry day, but the week before has been wet.

Pony rides, wow the lines to everything were a mile long, we didnt even go out to the Pumpkin patch this year because there were so many people, kids running everywhere! and all of them with a good coat of mud LOL.

There was a Bluegrass band there, we listened to them while we waited in line for our free hot cider and hot chocolate.

We were to meet the Guide Dogs of Clark County, our club, at 5:00pm for dinner, the food was great, we were stuffed! They reserve a barn for our dinner every year. We had a lady just walk in and take a plate of food too! Not someone that belonged to the club, just a random person. There were a couple other people that walked in and started to check out the food before they got told it was a private party. We need signs next year. Geez people are sooo rude, and did I say there were a lot of people there! Wow. I dont do so good in crowds anymore, it gets a bit overwhelming.

Dublin tied to a hay bale here while Meghan and I took turns getting some food.

This is what he thought of the whole thing! LOL

We were in this barn and the tractors with big trailers full of people, were going out to the pumpkin patch, I swear they had four tractors and trailers running, round and round.

I thought this driver looked a little like a farmer Hulk Hogan LOL LOL Meghan didnt think so much LOL

Another great big tractor, boy were they pretty loud! There is a great big pumpkin launch too, as you can see the sign in this picture, and some of the launch poles. Dublin did well, he got to see more people in one place than he ever has in his short life, got petted by lots of little kids and went to a petting zoo, and talked with a goat LOL All in all he took the distractions and people very well.

Bi-Zi Farms also has a huge corn maze and the huge pumpkin fields. There also was a "corn bin" where they filled a tent surrounded by straw bales with about 6-8 inches deep in corn kernels! Just for the kids to play in.

We were rather subdued in our visit this year, just because of the shear volume of people! The lines to get on the trailer to ride out to the pumpkin patch were very long, and there were two of them, a couple hundred feet long! They do have a nice area where you can wash your pumpkins off when you get back, but geez, we would never have made it back in time for dinner if we had waited in line.

This is a picture of the original barn, to the left of it is the petting zoo, a donkey, pot bellied pig, goats, turkeys, chickens, and you could buy feed to give them. To the right the bright red buildings, they have a farmers market, where all times of the year you can come and buy what produce is in season.

Here is that left side of the old barn where the pens are again, there were quite a few animals.

One tired little puppy after his big outing! Us to, we were going to walk out to the pumpkin patch, until we rounded the corner of the corn maze and seen how far it was out there! so no pumpkin this year. Last year we got pumpkins and walked through the corn maze, this year it was to muddy to do the corn maze.

My camera was on a scenery setting and the color is kind of funky, but that was our trip to the pumpkin patch! We had fun people watching and getting the puppy out in crowds of people, it was a good trip for him.

Wild Turkey....

Not the Wild Turkey that may have come to mind! LOL
On our drive on Sunday we did see some game, I spotted these in a field.
Headless birds! LOL they wouldnt pick up their heads.

Those arent Turkeys! LOL But they were in the same field.

Oh look one looked up!

I tried to zoom in to catch a better picture of them, but kept getting headless birds LOL

Oh finally, just a touch blurry but I caught one! We have Merriam's Turkeys around here, on the East side of the state anyway. We dont see Turkey very often on the west side, probably to wet. As Hubby said, they are not very pretty birds. I really want to try to hunt Turkeys.

Then we drove by this gorgeous barn.

And....see them?

There they are, another flock of Turkeys.

These ran from us, and stopped at the fence line.

One last one got left, boy did she book it to the rest of the flock LOL

Hope you enjoyed the Turkeys and the Fall colors.