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See photos from Minnesota shows

See photos from Dr. Marley’s presentation. 

See photos from Apsos on the Mountain.

Great Egret Blue
Limited Edition Print by Roderick MacIver

…as a writer I have to work with my imagination and my mind, and therefore I must lead a life that does not take my imagination away from my work — which means that I must go away from people at times. I find that the most important part of working is not the period when I am actually writing, but the periods when I stop writing between one day and the next morning. That period is terribly important, and though I cannot write in it, it is one in which my imagination should not be caught up in other things since it is an instrument of my writing. That is the sort of incubation period, a time of vulnerable growth. Something goes on, and I like then to go on long walks in the country just by myself. I would love to write twenty-four hours a day, but words are so exacting, such hard work, that I cannot do more than three or, if I am lucky, four hours at a time, however much I long to push on. So, in between, I am anxious to get on to the next morning; I can hardly wait to get back to it.

—Laurens van der Post, from Walk With A White Bushman.

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Gail sent this information, which is of great interest.

Dr. Johanna Budwig

Dr. Johanna Budwig’s Diet and Protocol

Learn how to make the mixture

I’m stoked because a problem I’ve been working on, off and on for months, has been resolved. I figured it out! Yippee!! The blog is now seamlessly, elegantly, integrated into the FFT website. Note the links across the top of What’s New…that is, if you’re viewing the blog through the website. Doesn’t look like much to be excited about. The links are on nearly every page, right? Nope, not until today. I’ve been trying to get the navigation bar seen at the top of most pages within the website integrated into the blog (which is hosted by a different server). Finally! I succeeded!

Before I celebrate for days upon days I will need your feedback. If you come across any broken links, please let me know. If you’ve been viewing the blog through wordpress.com, rather than through a link on the FFT website, please consider doing it now through the website. It will make navigation much easier, should you want to go to another area.

Hip Hip Hooray!

Now…on to figuring out how all posters can have an avatar. The photo of me you see, in the left hand column, whenever I comment on a post is my avatar. It would be fun to have one for all contributors, rather than that gray and white silhouette.

Faye sent this. I thought it was worth sharing…

It’s Canadian news but still worth the note.  At least our Prime Minister is not going to go hide on this one.

Harper ready to spurn China by meeting with Dalai Lama

This is Maggie, mother of the twins born earlier this year, finishing up in the milking shed, heading back to the goat pen.  Zeke always gives her a hug on the way out, and they interact for a minute or two.  They are good friends.  Maggie has never shown any fear of him; on the contrary, she was attracted to him from the beginning.  He loves to drink his bowl of warm Maggie Milk every morning, and lick our Goat Milk Ice Cream bowls in the evening. 

Gail sent the following:

OK Debby, here’s one up for grabs….already have been to the vet twice this week…My tiny shih tzu was nicked on the foot by the groomer months ago….(I haven’t been there since) Of course, he licked his foot and then it turned into a lick granuloma…an ulcer….finally it healed…Then a week ago, he started licking again. We went away for two days. I came back and took him to the vet. Antibiotics and an e collar and topical antibiotic. He is a contortionist and got to his leg even tho the collar fit correctly…..So the sore looks horrible. I put another soft collar inside the e collar…and a sock on his foot…So it will be two weeks, I think, in this situation…I will feed him just raw food, I think,. to help the skin issues. I am frustrated. He is a compulsive licker (looking back)….calming herbs….fish oil will probably help his skin..Anybody have experience with this imbalance?

Learn about Lick Granulomas

Julie received the following from Bella’s owners. Bella is the litter sister of Iris (Shelley’s puppy and Lily (with Julie). 

Just thought that I would update you on Bella.

She went to Canada this wek-end and passed with flying colors.  Everyone that saw her fell in love with her.

She has her ups and downs.  Some days she is very laid back and others a little devil.  Some times its like having a new baby (which she is) that has to put everything in her mouth,  We know when she has something that she really knows that she shouldn’t because she runs like the dickens and I think, she dares us to catch her.  She is very smart and Martin says thats where breeding counts.

She is also loosing her baby teeth.  I laughed yesterday when I checked her—she looked different and the two middle ones on the bottom were gone, she looked like my Grandson—he just lost his two on the bottom too.  Well today all four of them are out but you can see in one place where the new ones are trying to break thru.

She’s slowly getting the  “come” thing but when she doesn’t want to listen she looks at you like your some kind of dummie or as much as to say “who—Me?”  In about a month or so she’s going to have to learn “sit” & “stay” and that should be fun.

We are so glad we found her because she is loved to death so you don’t have to worry on this end.  She sits with “Daddy” when he read the paper in the morning and attacks him at night when he comes thru the door and he loves every minute of it.

Will let you know when she is spayed which will be after the baby teeth.

Take care.

Edwina

Greetings!

    An article was published by Reuters on September 7, 2007 that is of interest to dog owners:

U.S. Free of Canine Rabies Virus http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0741162020070907 

by Maggie Fox  (Health & Science Editor)  September 7, 2007

“The elimination of canine rabies in the United States represents one of the major public health success stories in the last 50 years,” CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding said in a statement

For more information on the canine rabies vaccine http://www.RabiesChallengeFund.org/page4.html and The Rabies Challenge Fund http://www.RabiesChallengeFund.org/about%20the%20RCF.html

   Rabies Challenge Fund Reaches First-Year Goal:  http://www.mainelincolncountynews.com/index.cfm?ID=26297

    Pets: Rabies vaccine research may save some pain  http://www.newsday.com/search/ny-lspets5278482jul02,0,6559208.column

  The Vaccine Challenge http://www.animaltalknaturally.com:80/2007/05/01/the-vaccine-challenge-show-91/ 

   How Often Does He REALLY Need a Rabies Shot? http://animalwellnessmagazine.com/m/m86/main.htm;  

   Get Out Your Wallets, Rabies Challenge Fund a Reality http://www.mainetoday.com/pets/dogslife/007915.html. 

    Are We Overvaccinating our Pets?  http://www.spanieljournal.com/28lbaughan.html 

    Rabies Challenge Kicks Off Fundraiser: http://www.courierpub.com/articles/2005/10/12/lincolncountyweekly/local_news/4news.txt 

    Nationwide Campaign Launched to Fund Rabies Vaccine Study http://www.mainelincolncountynews.com/index.cfm?ID=14204; 

    Challenging the Rabies Vaccine  http://www.newsday.com/mynews/ny-lspets4432971sep19,0,1274963.column;

    The Rabies Challenge Fund  http://blogs.mainetoday.com/dogslife/002976.html 

    Rabies Challenge Fund & Master Dog Training at the Womens Podcasting Expo - Show #42 http://www.replay-video.com/guide/index.php?start_page=http://applian.com/guide/view_podcast_details.php?show_id=2156 .   

Anyone wishing to have a copy of the 1992 French challenge study data from a research team led by Michel Aubert in which dogs were demonstrated to be immune to a rabies challenge 5 years after vaccination, or Vascellari’s study which documented cancerous tumors in dogs at presumed injection sites of rabies vaccine, please e-mail me at ledgespring@lincoln.midcoast.com .

Regards,  Kris L. ChristineFounder, Co-TrusteeThe Rabies Challenge Fund

http://www.RabiesChallengeFund.org

Two of the Gompa dogs live with Gigi. She recently sent the following:

My daughter Whitney, who moved to Portland from Ohio a few months ago, and I were in Dundee, OR, doing the winery circuit, and we stopped at the Dundee Cafe for lunch.  We had the boys with us at an outdoor table and of course everyone was saying “How Cute.” 

A couple came up and asked about the dogs, and I said they were Tibetan Apsos, similar to Lhasas, but a bit different, which I find easier than saying Gompas because people go “Huh?”.  And the husband was looking a bit askance, and asked where they came from.  I said one had come from a Buddhist retreat in Virginia, and the other from a breeder in Colorado.  So the wife says “Debby Rothman?”  

They are Jan and Larry Bruton, who have Lhasas from you but no Gompas.  *Very* small world!

Small world, indeed! Slight correction, Jan and Larry have Lhasas, but not from me. Jan judged the breed recently in MN and is currently secretary of the American Lhasa Apso Club. Larry is former president of ALAC.