The gang has grown....

Introducing SABLE II

Sable has moved in with us this week after retiring from a very long and dedicated career as a CCI Service dog for our friend Skip. Sable is a female LGX who normally looks just like a Golden Retriever, but she is sporting her "summer-do" right now, so only her ears and tail reflect her Golden attributes. Sable turned 12 1/2 on June 7 so she clearly deserved to retire. For those of you who are interested, Sable's parents are Twister and Ulrica, making her 3/4 Golden, 1/4 Lab, I think.

Sable has fit right in with the gang ~ and it's probably a good thing we have a gang, because Sable is pretty hard of hearing. She keeps track of where I am and where we're going by following the others. This is Sable with Halor.

It appears that Sable is having a good time with the gang - she is often exhibiting spontaneous friskiness, followed by some more careful and slower steps. I don't thing she's lived with stairs (makes sense since Skip uses a wheelchair full time) so she forgets that she's 12 1/2 and tries to go flying up and down the steps. This is Sable with Izzy and Hal.

For those of you familiar with Izzy's beautiful singing voice (hardly!), you'll be interested to know that Sable performs just as beautifully - with a bone in her mouth they can do quite a nice duet. Here are all four - Piniella (8yrs), Sable, Izzy (8 months) and Halor (almost 4).

And as if these four plus 2 1/2 cats isn't enough ~

I got chicks and a hen house for Mothers' Day. The babies are now a week old and still living in a box in the bathroom...

We have two black Austrolorps, two American Plymouth Rocks, and two Golden (of course) laced Wyandottes (all girls). They are growing like weeds and getting pretty fast on their feet!