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58 minutes ago, mike newman said:

.......this is "'Maid "'....a female  Huntaway..,,, of nearly pensioner age.....so  we all get on well !!.

She came from a big hill country sheep farm in the North Island...and due to a situation where the older 'hounds'  find the hills get a bit steeper and a bit harder as the dogs age....(much like us two legged animals, I guess....sigh  ).....some of the favored ones   are offered, on a nation wide web site  thing.....''free'' to the right family....rather than the brutal alternative which is often the fate  of old farm dogs...you can't stack them in the hedge row, like certain blokes on this site do with their Dodge trucks....There is a bloke who runs a very big .cab over and double  B    train up and down both Islands....(ferry crossing  the straight  )....and he will ship the hound , in his cab ,  for the   trip to its new home....

She has a good life at home, and here at the Station when my son comes down to add to the operating 'team'...she has her own bed....(.inside.)....rides in the Hi-Lux..not on the back   Coming from a Hawkes Bay hill farm in the North Island ...she had never seen snow close up...The reaction was amusing ..but I was not quick enough on the camera to get her ''bull dozing'' along in the snow......

Mike

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Cool story. We all need a place to grow old with people we love!!

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Lucy is a Red heeler/Australian cattle dog mix. She has a ton of energy. She'll go on a 3 mile walk, or chase the atv and a few minutes later wants to play fetch or chases her tail. My wife does agility contests with her. Her favorite activity though is going for rides or hanging out on something with wheels. When I was laid up for 6 months she never left my side in bed.

 

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11 hours ago, FoxrunFarms02 said:

Lucy is a Red heeler/Australian cattle dog mix. She has a ton of energy

Lucy is a good looker.   The photos convey her energy. 

Our recently-passed Ezra never left my wife's side when she was bed-ridden during cancer treatment.  It sounds like Lucy provided the same therapy.

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5 hours ago, bob_carr said:

Lucy is a good looker.   The photos convey her energy. 

Our recently-passed Ezra never left my wife's side when she was bed-ridden during cancer treatment.  It sounds like Lucy provided the same therapy.

She has some cool markings. I'm more so into blue healers, and to be honest we weren't really planning on a cattle dog but she kind of just came to us but sure glad she did and we love her. We'd like to get her a heard or flock of something before she gets too old. It's crazy how animals/pets can sense things. Some days feeling down all I had to do was pet her and it took me back to a better time.

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15 minutes ago, FoxrunFarms02 said:

She has some cool markings. I'm more so into blue healers, and to be honest we weren't really planning on a cattle dog but she kind of just came to us but sure glad she did and we love her. We'd like to get her a heard or flock of something before she gets too old. It's crazy how animals/pets can sense things. Some days feeling down all I had to do was pet her and it took me back to a better time.

I need to find some good pictures but she could pass for a twin to mine I called Liberty. She was half red and half blue. Cool white markings. Red white and blue = liberty 

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30 minutes ago, junkandcattle said:

I need to find some good pictures but she could pass for a twin to mine I called Liberty. She was half red and half blue. Cool white markings. Red white and blue = liberty 

That's awesome and a very accurate name. We had blood work done on Lucy to figure out why she's so small for being a heeler, but there was so many mixes it could not be determined.

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1 hour ago, FoxrunFarms02 said:

That's awesome and a very accurate name. We had blood work done on Lucy to figure out why she's so small for being a heeler, but there was so many mixes it could not be determined.

She doesn't look too dissimilar from mine, who's heeler and corgi.

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I have not been able to get Dolly to ride with me in the tractor since she was a puppy and rode in the 1486. Today Lisa moved the last of the bales, so she can turn critters back out and she sent me this picture. Her old dog Dude rode with her everywhere and now she’s got Dolly riding around with her. 
The 2090 has a nice place for hounds to ride. 

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1 hour ago, lorenzo said:

Emma will ride in anything as long as im there.

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My old Tators dog was that way. Dolly not so much but she always had Dude to guide her. Now that she is alone, she is much more likely to go with me. She even went in the truck with me Friday. 
I think she was 8 months old and helping me bale in the 1486

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A 1086 is a really good dog tractor. The back ledge behind the seat is pretty nice place for them too. our dog Hagan loved the 1086 and the 2290. Stacked hay with the 2290 and he would stand on the back ledge and put his chin on my shoulder. What a good dog can get by with. 

BTW my handle on here Hagan came from the Blue Healer Hagan we had.

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7 hours ago, Lazy WP said:

My old Tators dog was that way. Dolly not so much but she always had Dude to guide her. Now that she is alone, she is much more likely to go with me. She even went in the truck with me Friday. 
I think she was 8 months old and helping me bale in the 1486

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We had a female spaniel mix many years ago that hated to ride in or on anything. She would get down in the passenger side footwell and shake on the yearly trip to the vet. But, she was perfectly happy to stay home by herself even if we took the other dogs somewhere, and she never went off the place. Actually, if it wasn't for that, she would have been about the perfect dog.

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20 hours ago, lorenzo said:

Emma will ride in anything as long as im there.

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Is this a right now pic? Are you harvesting?

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25 minutes ago, KWRB said:

Is this a right now pic? Are you harvesting?

...by the look on Emma's  face ...I suspect Lorenzo is towing the dual wheeled 560 ...(the one with the buggared back end, you know ...).....for another photo  shoot   ...some  where on the lower forty.....:rolleyes:

Mike

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1 hour ago, mike newman said:

...by the look on Emma's  face ...I suspect Lorenzo is towing the dual wheeled 560 ...(the one with the buggared back end, you know ...).....for another photo  shoot   ...some  where on the lower forty.....:rolleyes:

Mike

Probably just going to get the mail actually.

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2 hours ago, lorenzo said:

Probably just going to get the mail actually.

very cool that emma loves to be with you, my new lab thinks hes a lap dog but has had to resort to a feet dog so he lays there instead and wants to be in the middle of everything. I am enjoying him most the time but he still chews things up pretty bad..........have to keep him locked up cause he gets bored and then its the closest thing he can get his mouth around. 

I have an emma but its my daughter 😉 enjoy that closeness i love a good dog to hang out with they are so much better than most people !!!

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