Dogs

Homesteading with Dogs: Get By with a Little Help from Your Friends

If I had to give ato our Akbash/Great Pyrenees dogs or put them in one category, well, I…

3 months ago

Imperfectly Priceless Pets: Shelter Rescues on the Homestead

Not all pets are perfect.  Some have physical limitations and disabilities.  They may be blind, or deaf, or both.  They…

8 months ago

Adventures of Becoming a Backwoods Girl: Bugs, Guns, Dogs, and Fire, Oh My…

I decided when going back to college that I would major in Fish and Wildlife Biology. Now, understand that my…

1 year ago

The Ultimate Guide to Farm-Friendly Dogs

My wife and I are homesteading dog-trainers.  In our duties as dog trainers, we have brought almost every conceivable breed…

2 years ago

Livestock Guard Dogs: Just Like Lassie, Only Better

When I had my dairy goats in Wisconsin nothing bothered them, and they lived happily and without a care in…

2 years ago

When Coyotes Threaten Your Livestock

One evening as the sun slipped behind the Short Hills in Rockbridge County, Virginia, I had just shut the chicken…

2 years ago

Farm Dogs: See Spot Work

  Most farms have at least one dog hanging around, and that dog may even do something to justify his…

6 years ago

Fishing Without Chena: A Touching and Honest Story of a Man and his Dog

  [In unpublished writings,] I tried to convey the love I felt for her by indirection; that is, by fussing…

6 years ago