Lakeview Ranch: Curly Missouri Fox Trotters

We purchased a puppy on June 21st, a Newfoundland female. 

She is 10 wks old and is black with a little white on her chest.

We have named her Angie Baby, first was Angel Baby, but Bill would keep calling her Angie.

We didn't know when we purchased her that she was from a kennel until 2 days later! 

When we met the owners at a gas station, she was in a cage in the back of a pickup truck.

She was so cute but noticed her hair coat looked rough..didn't shine like it should and she had a slight cough.

We bought her anyway...got a good buy... now we know why...when we coming home she was coughing in the back seat and continued coughing that night and the next day.  She also was scratching alot and didn't look at her stomach, until we took her to the vet the next day.

At the vets she listened to her chest and she is congested, so she is on antibiotics.  The vet took a sample of her skin on her tummy because she had a rash...to make sure it wasn't mange.  She didn't see any live mites, but that might because the kennel owners gave her a bath, probably a flea bath, that killed them...but now we have to keep a look out to make sure she doesn't have eggs to hatch!  We did notice that she had to of had something wrong because she did have shorter hair in places, that probably was from bare spots.

She is a love butt and today, June 25, 2009 is so full of energy.  She still is coughing some but not like she was.  She got an Emu Oil Dog Shampoo today because he rolled in poop.. LOL     Her hair coat is looking better.

Her Aunt Linda and Uncle Junior came over to see her and Aunt Linda gave her a ball to play with...my gosh  I never seen so much energy!  She went to her water bowl and tried to take a bath in it !!!  And her water bowl is in the kitchen!  The ball will now go outside to play with.

We got her a huge kennel cage today, so she can learn that is where she sleeps.  Right now , it has been 5 days and I have had a total of about 10 hours sleep.  She kept me up at night for play time..and when she would cough I would wake up.  She also needs to go out to pottly every 2 hours to house break her.

She has found a life long home here and we love her already.  I hope I can find a really nice male Newfoundland to bred her to in a couple years.  We would like to bred her to either a black male or to a black and white. 

I would also love to purchase a Bronze Newfie female sometime soon,  if you know of anyone that is close to MO and is NOT a puppy mill, please let me know.

These Newfie's are wonderful dogs!

Sandy

On July 17th, 2009  I had to make the decision to put our Max to sleep. 

Max was 15 yrs. old and suffered from hip problems and with the heat index yesterday at 100 degrees, bless his heart, was dragging his back legs to make it to the dairy barn with my husband, Bill.

We got Max when he was just a puppy and I held him on my right shoulder when we picked him up.  He was so scared.

We lived in a 14 x 52 mobile home at the time and we kept him in the home with us and Buffy, our Golden Retriever (she passed away of a heart attack 12 yrs ago).

Within 7 months he was so big that he took up the whole size and length of a day bed!  Time for him to go outside all the time.

I would trim Max's hair every spring and he either looked like a Poodle or a Schnauzer... if he had a Poodle cut we would call him Pierre and if he looked like a Schnazer we called him Fritz...LOL... he would look at us like " Who are you talking to?".

He loved our Jersey heifer calves and he would even let them pacify themselves by letting them suck on his ears. 

Max would smile and I wish I would of got a picture of him when he would smile!

He scared strangers when he would do this..but he never hurt anyone.

Max loved his Uncle Ralph whe he would come down from St. Louis.  Uncle Ralph would bring him doughnuts from Krisy Kream and Max just loved doughnuts! 

Max kept skunks, opposums and coyotes away from the farm, by barking so much and such a deep bark that they wouldn't even come close to the dairy.

Max was attacked 3 yrs ago by an Akita that a man had turned loose.  Max was protecting my mom's puppy that was being attacked by the Akita... then the Akita attacked Max and hurt his hips.

Max always stayed at the dairy barn while Bill milked, when Bill bottle fed the calves and then would protect our log home all night long.

Max will be missed so much!  He was friendly and loved everyone. 

I know he was suffering and I know this was the best thing to do, but it was the hardest thing I have ever had to do. 

Our woman vet, Lisa, came to our home and peacefully put Max to sleep.

Max is now buried in the yard by Buffy and Missy(Cat).

I have plans soon to make Max, Buffy and Missy a Stained Glass Stepping Stone to lay at their grave sites.

I love you Max and I know one day we will see each other again!  Bless Your Heart.

Your Human Parents:

Bill and Sandy Phipps

Blue Bayou: Smooth Coat MFTHBA foaled a

beautiful curly colt by

Maximum's Pride: MFTHBA, ICHO, ABC.

He may turn to Blue Roan, only time will tell.

This colt is for sale.

He will be Reg. MFTHBA and can be registered with ICHO.

A Little Jewel had a curly filly!  Sire is Maximum's Pride. 

Jewel is a Reg. MFTHBA mare and Maximum's Pride is an ABC, MFTHBA, ICHO stallion.

This curly filly has such long legs and so sweet.  Pics are on the Foals 2009 page.

More pics soon!

This filly will be for sale at weaning.  Contact me at 417-469-2230 or Email at sandra.phipps@yahoo.com

I am beginning to hate Winter!   Winter ponds are terrible when you have livestock!

On Jan.26th late in the evening we started to get freezing rain and it did that all nite and into the next day.   It quit for about 3 hours and we thought we were out of the major ice storm area, but Tues. night it started again with freezing rain.  During the night and into Wed. morning we got about 2 " of snow covering the ice.

Around 2:00 pm today our horses were all looking down towards the pond that is visible from the house, well part of it is, and we knew something was wrong.                                  Bill put on his coveralls and boots and took off across the yard towards the fence row and yep, there was horse in the frozen pond!

Bill ran back to house to let me know, I threw on some tennis shoes and a jacket.  Got to the fence and had to climb over a 6' corral panel and try to run across snow with ice underneath.   About the time I got to the pond, I fell face forward...but that didn't stop me!   I had to see who was in the pond and try to get her to come to me. 

In the meantime, Bill ran up to get the tractor and a long rope.  He was thinking like me that we could lasso her, we didn't even know how to make a lasso, and tie to tractor and pull her out if need be. 

I got to the pond to see Frankie, a smooth coat curly TW x MFT 3 yr. old in the pond !   She was out about 10' from the edge and I tried to get close to her but the ice kept breaking and I ended up with my feet in 10" of cold cold water!    I hollered for her, she turned and started towards me, and I thought she is going to make it!   Just them her mom, Smokin, came running to the pond to see what was going on...when she seen it was her daughter she started knickering at her and she turned away from me and started towards mom!  When she did this, it was where the ice had not broke yet. 

Poor Frankie had to keep lunging forward and landed on her bent front legs, as soon as she did this, then the ice would break under her weight.  She did this about 4 times and finally got to the edge!   Thank God!

When she got out she was shaking so hard and just kinda didn't know what was going on.  Mom took off towards the hay feeder and got her in between some other horses and both of them started eating hay.

After all this was done, I hollered for Bill that Frankie had got out.   We went back down to the pond and low and behold we seen where 2 others horses had also been in the pond and had got out.  They had been out in about 5' of water!  This must of happened a couple hours earlier.   But what really scared me and Bill was that we seen where 2 of them had been out on the center of the pond !  In the center our pond is 14' deep !   The good Lord was watching out for them or we would of lost 2 horses that day!

After about an hour, I decided that Pride, one of our stallions didn't need his big round pen and I put him in the barn in a large area.   With Bill's help and a shovel and a ax we had to chop thru ice that had 2 gates frozen to the ground.  We finally got it loose and turned all 12 mares and fillies into the round pen. 

As of today, Feb. 3rd. they are still in round pen.  The ice with snow ontop of pond still hasn't thawed enough for us to turn them back into the pasture!

Thursday Feb. 5th we are suppose to start getting 50 to 60 degree weather so hopefully we can turn them back out.

I can't wait till Spring !

Only other good thing that happened with this ice storm is that we shut down milking the cows until March when they all start calving out again.  We were very thankful that we kept power the whole time.  South of us they didn't do so good.  In northern AR people have been without power since 26th of Jan.!   As of today Feb. 3rd, there is still 4500 people without power!

I will be adding photos of what the area looked like here and also a picture of the mares and fillies in the round pen.

Sping can't come fast enough for me!

Sandy Phipps