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The bog garden and the Brown Dog, August 2017
Start with floating bottom in a pond…
Gretchen picking some bog from the floating bottom
The bog she picked
Continue readingThe dogs like it better when there’s water
The recent rains refilled the beaver pond. -jsq
Cottonmouth moccasin v Yellow Dog and Brown Dog @ OPF 2016-11-29
At the far side of the pond, Yellow Dog spotted a moccasin before anybody else. The small but deadly Agkistrodon piscivorus didn’t stand a chance against the pair of experienced snake wranglers, Yellow Dog and Brown Dog.
Can you see the snake? (Tail, lower left)
Continue readingSnake of the day
Mocassin
For the rest of the story, see Cottonmouth moccasin v Yellow Dog and Brown Dog @ OPF 2016-11-29.
-jsq
Dog catching expedition
Gretchen yesterday saw a stray small dog with a collar cowering in a thicket, so she was trying again to catch it.
Yellow Dog on her new bed
The new dog bed
Brown Dog does not approve of Gretchen and Yellow Dog’s shenanigans.
-jsq
Dogs, creek, beaver pond 2016-11-05
Yellow Dog and Brown Dog convinced Gretchen Quarterman to walk a log across a beaver pond.
Here are a couple of videos and there are more pictures below. Continue reading
Yellow Dog, moccasin
Brown Dog and Gretchen are surprised
Gretchen Quarterman was surprised when Yellow Dog walked past me and picked up that snake about 4 feet to my left. I had backed off when I took this picture, but the venom splatter still got on my arm, which immediately started tingling. With a bit of soap and water, it’s fine. For once the Yellow Dog did not get bit. She did get some of the food she likes best and a bone. Brown Dog prudently stayed out of this one.
-jsq