from GF and my road trip.
Chores to do, email to read, dogs to pet..........

incision area is clean and healthy looking.
I'm leaving Brag in charge while I go recharge my batteries.
No pre-season exercise this Saturday.

after Doc Caldwell spayed (ovariohysterectomy) her yesterday.
She seems to feel and move good. If it wasn't for the stitches that she has have removed on Saturday September 30 I wouldn't know anything had happened to her.
Doc Caldwell does a good job at a very reasonable price

Crass commercial advertisement ( a freebie no less lol)
Caldwell Animal Hospital
2405 Sportsman Drive
Phenix City, Alabama
(334) 297-5000
A Veterinarian for all your animal needs
As a matter of fact, I regard him as the official Rabbit Journal Veterinarian, giving quality care for our entire pack of rabbit hounds.


Abbie got her Rabies and Distemper-Parvo vaccination yesterday. And can start her heartworm pills

Today, Abbie went to Doc Caldwell's for the last of her puppy shots.

And as long as we were there, I dropped Lucy off to be spayed.
She must have suspected something because right after she charged out of the gate, when she didn't see Dixie, Julie and Kate coming, she turned hardheaded. She didn't want to get in the summer box and when we got to the vet, instead of being eagar to get hold of one of the office cats, I had to drag her in the door.
I pick her up in the morning, stitches to come out in a week to ten days. I'll keep her in the back yard instead of with the other girls.

When I put Abbie back in the pen, her Aunties were more concerned with smelling my hands and looking behind me....for Lucy than in their morning peanut butter dog biscuit.

Ok, not really.

The dogs ran well. Top dog? Once again it was Lucy. Dixie, Julie and Kate turning in solid performances as supporting casts though they really shine once the race starts. Abbie? Well, Abbie is still a puppy.

Lucy’s forte is starting the race by finding a weak scent and following it until she jumps or it becomes so strong that the other little ladies follow it.

War Eagle.

Don't look for a pre-season race post for a day or do. Or till I decompress

for four of my girls. Abbie hasn't started on them yet

I wonder what we’re chas…..Boss? Where you at boss? Bosssss!!!

I put Abbie on two rabbits, but she showed little interest in the smell though she did put her head down and followed the trail. Just no enthusiasm.

Oh, you didn't even know I was gone?

2 and I went to Apalachicola to fish for a few days. The post is here

Or
"Who are those guys?"

Puppy power, was what the lovely GF, my bride, had to say while watching Abbie bounce around the pen after the “girls” and I had spent the morning on a pre-season exercise chasing rabbits on a pine plantation near Seale, Alabama.

“Puppy power, our butt” was Abbie’s aunties reply. Dixie, Julie, Lucy and Kate were sprawled out in their favorite spots trying to rest up from the morning run. Julie, from her perch atop one of the dog houses said “I’d have some energy to if I’d spent the morning sleeping underneath Boss’s feet”
Lucy agreed though she was only a year away from her own naps during our Saturday morning exercises having forgotten that rabbit hunting is such hard work.
Dixie and Kate just kept snoring, their delicate lady like snores rising from the hole leading into the chamber they had dug underneath the houses.

to feed my puppies twice a day with puppy food. Doc Caldwell is no different.
I'm using Puppy Chow

Every morning, I give Abbie some puppy chow and after she has eat a bit, I get out the rag toy . Since Abbie is so young and new, I use the toy, soaked in Hallmarks Rabbit Scent for a game of tug.
Next week, I’ll drag it around where she can’t see it and hide it in some bushes for her to find