To Live Like a Dog
We lost Suki in January. While I’ll never know with complete certainty, I have very little doubt that what took her was the year of unnecessary Percorten injections. She developed […]
Author Archives: SchipAlong
Thinking of Feeding Raw? Read This First.
I’m pretty happy with feeding my dogs raw. The day after I opened the first bag of freeze-dried Primal Suki walked 6 kilometers, an improvement of nearly 6 kilometers from […]
Five Years of Chickens
This was not the tone I had in mind for this post this time last year. Five years ago I brought home a little berry box that contained two balls […]
I Think I’m a Raw Convert
Okay everyone, I’ve been feeding the dogs raw since September and I’m starting to feel confident enough about it to tell you. If I’m being honest, I’ve always been low-key […]
6 New Veggies I’m Growing This Year
Okay, both my seed orders have finally arrived so I can actually post this. For a bit there I thought my Baker Creek order was never going to arrive and […]
Suki Doesn’t Have Addison’s Disease
Suki was diagnosed with Addison’s Disease February 2018. February 2019, I found out she was misdiagnosed. She may or may not have something, but it’s not Addison’s Disease. I had […]
Vompocalypse 2019
If you follow me on Instagram you’ve likely already heard this story, but here’s the extended version. Roe seemed a bit down as we were going to bed. I thought […]
How Are Your New Year’s Resolutions Going?
Well, we’re into February. The month following the one where we set resolutions, changes we wanted to accomplish this year. Full of hope and optimism. We could do it. And […]
The Coop Update I Hoped I’d Never Write
When we renovated our coop we went the extra distance predator proofing it. We replaced the 3/4-inch hardwire cloth with 1/4-inch. We covered even the smallest ventilation hole. We lined […]
Happy Birthday, Roe
Has it seriously been a year? Tomorrow I’ll no longer have a puppy, but another dog. It feels like just yesterday I was getting the pictures of the two little […]
