#ratfarm

I have been staring at the Small Puff and wondering, well, why isn't she a puff???

There were very fluffy pups in her litter of purebred Great Pyrenees that were indeed little round puffs of fluff and I dug up the puppy pictures of Puff Senior to verify that I remebered right.

I am very curious now why she isn't fluffy. I did feel certain we left with the runt of the litter, the last puppy available after a mere 48 hours since they were listed on Craigslist (livestock guardian dogs from *working* lines seem to go fast) but I wanted another LGD and knew she was the right pup. She's very healthy, sweet, and mercifully not the constant barker that our older LGD is. I don't know if we stumbled on a genetic oddity but if a "smooth Pyrenees" is linked to the polite-barker gene, I'll take it. She was definitely from the same litter and her parents and siblings looked like full pyrenees so I don't know if this is a mutation of a pure breed or something buried so far down the line that it wasn't obvious until it popped up.

That rat I bought from a feed store came with 11 bonus rats!

We are living up to our name. ;P

Flex your rights!

I took my first renewal course last year as my five year permit expired. As the survivor of multiple assaults I know first hand why Good Guys should be armed.

Anyone who says you shouldn’t be able to do this believes it’s morally superior to be killed than defend yourself or others with the use of force.

Goals. Right here folks. I'm absolutely in love with this blog and am so jealous / uplifted / happy to see someone further along the same journey I want to take... and they're not too far from where I live!