Blooms, blooms, and more blooms!

What happiness!  Colors dominate the lily patches!

Up All Night With A Sick Friend - Melanie (German Shepherd)

Melanie is ill!  Yesterday morning, several of the English bulldogs got their baths on the back porch.  Melanie happened by and asked if she could help.  She loves to help. "You need a bath yourself," I told her. So I soaked her down and rubbed in some tick and flea soap.  Well, I didn't do a good enough job rinsing the soap out of her double layered fur.  And I should not have sprayed her with flea mist so soon after her bath.  The combination caused a reaction that laid her low!  She just wanted to lie down in the kitchen and watch me with those big brown eyes.  Since 4 this morning, she has passed the low point.  She went to the back door and wanted out -- a very good sign.

Melanie has passed early Saturday morning in her sleep.  I will always think of her as she was a constant companion, a gift from Judy.

Update:  Cause of death was tick and flea soapy water.  Melanie drank from the kiddy pool that I had been rinsing the bulldogs in.  I should have put her up.

Day lilies blooming!

Pictures of Cheesecube Applecheek -- Beautiful English Bulldog

Kristi Emailed pictures of her beautiful bulldog:

I have "Harmony" (new name - Cheeseburger) from Jazzman and Eve's January 26, 2008 litter.  I used to follow Judy's Journal religiously, but after over two years my visits became less and less frequent and I just found out about her passing.  I'm very sorry for your loss, but am very happy that you are keeping up her legacy with the Puppy Gal blog!

I just wanted to send you some recent pictures of my baby girl.  She has been the biggest blessing of my life.  I'm not sure there has ever been such a loved and spoiled dog!

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Sweety Pie, female English bulldog, Loves Her Bath!

Sweetie Pie loves her bath.  She saw the tick and flea shampoo in my hand and made a bee-line to the back door.  How she can be so smart sometimes and so dumb other times is hard to figure out.  She climbed into the kiddie pool where she gets her weekly bath and waited for me to spray her down.  What she likes best of all is when she gets shampooed and then gets scratched and massaged all over (especially around her tail!)

Just about the time the rinse water was being sprayed, Sweet Pea came strolling down the driveway.  She had been frightened by a loud clap of thunder and broke out of her exercise pen to come find her Daddy. She got lots of loving and petting before I put her up.

Meanwhile, Sweetie Pie was shaking off her bath water and ready for a nap.  She did NOT get too much loving because she smelled like a wet dog.

Baby Noel, English bulldog, Goes to her New Home

Baby Noel went to her new home today.  Chelsey and Aaron plan to spend a lot of time loving on this scamp!  Chelsey says that she just had to have her so she had someone to talk to while Aaron was working...

Mabelline and Romey -- Two beautiful English bulldogs!

Bob

I'm so glad it's working!  Fruit flies are so annoying.

I'm attaching a picture of Mabelline and Romey (my bullies) for you.  Mabelline is the big girl on the left!

Where did my bulldog "Jerry Lee Lewis" go?

Mo (as in Larry, Curly and Mo) and Jerry Lee Lewis (both bulldogs) were the last two to be escorted from the greenhouse to the Dog Barn.  I put Mo into her crate for the rest of the hot afternoon (the Dog Barn is air conditioned) and turned around for Jerry Lee.  No Jerry Lee! So, back to the greenhouse - no Jerry Lee!  So, back to the Dog Barn scanning the fields for movement of any kind...  No Jerry Lee! I called and called.  But from around the Bulldogmobile came a very hot and thirsty Jerry Lee!  How can you be mad at a lovable little bulldog?  (Not so little any more!)

Fruit Flies + Fruit = Summertime Blues

Hi Bob:

Hope this email finds you well!  I used to email with Judy about my bulldogs, Mabelline and Romey.  I was also a daily visitor to her Journal - I sure miss her!

With regard to your fruit fly problem, I had the same thing one time.  I have a compost pile and I keep a pail under the sink to store scraps until I'm ready to walk them out to the composter.  I had forgotten that I left scraps in there for a while, and for whatever reason decided to open up the lid in the kitchen, and about a thousand fruit flies flew out all over the kitchen!

What worked like a charm was the following:  get a small bowl and put about one inch of apple cider vinegar, then swirl around a couple of drops of dish detergent into that vinegar and leave it on the counter.  The vinegar has a strong odor and once they sit on the mixture with the dish detergent, they can't fly away.  I caught almost all of them out of the kitchen in about 24 hours!

I am enjoying your blog - keep it up!

Kind regards,

Vanessa

Melanie (the German Shepherd) Wants to Help!

Melanie, the German Shepherd Rescue, loves to help.  She gets as close to the action as she can and when I take care of the bulldogs, she trots right along side making sure that they stay on the walking trail.

Does she help? Of course! and I sure need the help.

The kitchen remodeling is about half done.  The base cabinets, the wall cabinets, are all installed and the above the stove microwave is installed.  Now comes the organization phase.  What goes were and why? I've emptied the old cabinets and found lots of extra cooking utensils like seven woks! Two pumpkin extractors...  I thought that I had unloaded all the frying pans and stewers.  Then I remembered that there were twenty cast iron frying pans in the bottom drawer of the stove!!!

Wendy is happy to report Reba is doing fine!

Reba is "on the job" at the site of Wendy's home addition...  She's just taking a small nap before the work gets started.  Then she will be on guard against pesky squirrels all right.

Sometimes we are tangled up and time stops

Happy Mother's Day!
My daughter, Sharon, is very talented.  She captured the essence of motherhood in her painting, "Sometimes we are tangled up and time stops..."  That's her two daughters that she's 'tangled up' with while watching ducks on a lake in Denver, Colorado.

God bless our kids and their Mothers...

A Rose for Cherry Cookie (English bulldog)

Early in the morning, under a layer of Velcro weeds, I found a pink rose bush that escaped the sharp teeth of the neighborhood deer. The buds are beautiful.

Cherry Cookie started bleeding again so I took her to the vets this morning.  She has a horrific bacterial infection.  I've dosed her with antibiotics.  She has a raised temperature and should be alright in ten days.  But, that means the chances of having a litter this year are very small.  Poor baby -- she loves her little puppies.

Close Counts in Horseshoes And Tornadoes!

The map shows how close the English bulldogs came to the fierce storm that ravaged Pocahontas which is three miles to the north of Puppy Gal.


If you drive about a mile along Pocahontas Road and take a left on Tomlinson Road for about a mile, you will be at the location of the nearest tornado. 


The bulldogs did wake up while the wind and thunder was making all of its noise.  But,  then decided it was more important to get a nap so the snoring continued.


The A-I of Cherry Cookie and Rhubarb Pie went well this morning.  That makes three females bred in the last thirty days:  
Dixie Pie w/ The Jazzman ... April 5, 7 and 9
Rosamond w/ Elvis II ... April 7, 9 and 10
Cherry Cookie w/ Rhubarb Pie ... May 1, 3 and 5


Gestation is 63 days on average.  I'll be releasing puppies to their new homes when they are eight weeks old.  They will have been vet checked, wormed and all puppy shots will be current.  A non-refundable deposit of $250 will hold a puppy for purchase.  Purchase price will be from $1,600 to $2,000 depending on the puppies conformance.


Warning to Breeders:  The old Nigerian scam is being recycled again!  I just received one by Email.  This is how it works:  A breeder will get an Email saying that in no uncertain terms that they want to buy your puppy.  They will pay shipping.  They will pay through a third party.  (Note Well)  You will receive one or two drafts for hundreds of dollars in excess of the price of the puppy and shipping charges.  You are supposed to deposit the bank drafts (such a Wells Fargo, etc.) and send a check for the difference.  As soon as the check is in their hands, the bank draft is stopped and your check is cashed.  Don't do it!


This scam won't work with me because I don't sell to pushy people -- you bulldog owners are sweet!  I don't ship -- it's too hard on the puppies.  I only let people have my bullies when meeting them face to face!  

Clematis Weathered the Storm!

The English bulldogs do not like thunder -- (nor does the German Shepherd, Melanie) so last night when the wind, rain, and hail came through our part of the county, the dogs couldn't sleep so they paced and paced and paced.  The rain lasted until 6 p. m. at which time, all the dogs took a nap!  They are still sleeping and I expect they will remain that way until tomorrow morning.

 

Most of the iris suffered water and wind damage but the clematis survived!  In fact, they look better today than they did yesterday morning -- nothing like a shower and a blow dry!