Wolf DNA in Dogs

The other day I got a news letter from “A commitment for life YAPS – Yucaipa Animal Placement Society” and on the back page there is a section call Conner’s Corner and I want to share with y’all what she wrote in the Fall letter.

Dear Connor, My owners just don’t understand me. I am a one and a half year old dog that has lots of energy. I love to be on the move and frequently escape from my yard. They seem very frustrated by this, saying that I want to get completely away from them. However, I don’t, I just get board. How do I help them understand me without getting in trouble again?

 

Room to roam

 

Dear Room to roam,

                             Well you’ve come to the right place; I can help to get the word out. We as dogs need to go for walks and preferably with our people and/or pack. What most people do not know is that all of us dogs have wolf DNA in us, that’s where we come from. In fact, we are very close to wolves; there is only a 0.2% difference between us. That being said, it is important to note that wolves travel ten to thirty miles a day with their pack just to eat. Therefore the need to travel, which is in the wolves DNA, is in ours too.

In an effort to curb this need to roam, owners need to find the time to walk with us between 45 minutes to an hour every day. If they do this there would be a lot less escaping from the yard, not to mention, a lot less trouble in general. Walks are good for all of us, both two and four legged. Try waiting for your owners to take you on a walk next times, you’ll find it’s much more fun than going solo.

Ready to walk,

  

Connor

 

For more in on this and others to can go to Conner’s Corner provided by dog trainer, Kym Caldwell of Canine companions. If you have a question for Conner, please e-mail us at infor@yaps.org

I hope this little Conner’s Corner was helpful and enjoyable reading...

WIN A FREE 8X10 PET PORTRAIT OR NATURE PAINTING

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To win y’all must fan/like the page if you are new go to Pets and Nature Portraits: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pets-and-Nature-Portraits/152172968150363?ref=ts   

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Fan my page, if not already a fan, and pass on to one friend - or suggest my page to one friend.

WINNER MUST BE A FAN/LIKE at the time of drawing and must have a good digital photo to work from. I will paint what ever pet you want - face to shoulder only, and mail it to you - you pay $5.00 shipping

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Yucaipa Vision Quist Art Gallery ‘Art on the Lawn.’

I ‘am a little later on blogging this but about a week ago October 16, I participated in Yucaipa Vision Quist Art Gallery ‘Art on the Lawn.’ I have to say that I was a little nerves doing that show for when I woke up it was fog down and a little cold but by the time Bruce and I load up and drove up the street to the show the sun was coming out and the weather turn out to be really nice.  

There was some awesome work and I got to chat with some of the artist who stops by my booth. One of the artist was  Roger C. who told me that events like this was nothing but a artist social club for him, his sales came out side of these events. That got me to thinking, was I wasting my time and money?  I figure I was here so I just need to hunker down and greet the folks that came in and get a little drawing beside.

Y’all know people are funny, I don’t usually draw or paint with folks around for I am still a little nerves when it comes to draw around folks but I wanted to draw to pass the time so I got my pad and pencils out and as I drew...

I found that some folks were coming up behind me to watch me draw and when I would turn around these some folks would get really nerves and run. A few would come up to me and ask me question or tell me what a good job I was doing…. Over all it was a good day and I did sell and networking beside. Not back for coming back into the art world after staying away for about 15 years, but that’s other blog…

Here are some pic's of my booth:

This is just after the sun broke though and i was open for business

Here I stood on the front porch for the gallery to take this pic.

and yes that is me and in the back to my right is my loving hubby Bruce who was a big support all the way.

1st place...

Yesterday (10/21) I submitted my painting “Postcard from the Gulf” into the Yucaipa Art Assoc Monthly Juried Show and to my big surprise I won 1st place. What to go… now tomorrow I will mail it off. Now too look for another pic to paint.

Postcards from the Gulf

The other day I was checking out the home pages on FB when I came across ‘The Illustrated Garden Val Webbs art studio’ talking about “Postcard from the Gulf” and I e-mail Val to see if it was to late to join and to my surprise it’s not so I went and found an old watercolor post card from Daniel Smith Co. that I could paint on, but wait! There are so many animals out there which one to paint?

So I went on the net to study the gulf and the animals that was hit the most and I found that the ‘Brown Pelican’ also called ‘American Brown Pelican’ was one of three animals that are still on the endanger subspecies list, and hit really hard by the oil spills so I had decided to start painting this beautiful bird... 

 

Here is the 1st stage of the painting...

 

Here is the 2nd stage of the painting....

 

 

Here is the 3rd stage of the painting... 

 

Here is a pic of the hold postcard...

 

So come on over and check out http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Illustrated-Garden-val-Webbs-art-studio/106202600922

Adopting a Pet

Howdy all I was just talking to a friend about my recuse pets that I have and she told me that she was thinking about adopting a pet but had not thought it out all the way on who was going care,clean up after the pet, feeding, etc and that got me to thinking so I went on pet finders and here are some links that I think will help us all of us with our pets…

http://www.petfinder.com/after-pet-adoption/costs-dog.html

http://www.petfinder.com/before-pet-adoption/

http://www.petfinder.com/after-pet-adoption/

http://www.petfinder.com/journal/index.cgi?article=695  

http://www.petfinder.com/after-pet-adoption/bringing-home-new-cat.html

 

If you are thinking about adopting a pet or know someone is please pass these links on ... Thank You.¤ (¯`'·.¸(♥)¸.·'´¯) ¤

Welcome

Howdy all and Happy Harvest, let me introduce my self my name is J.D. Fields also known as Lady B. or Lady Bug and I am the creator of Pets and Nature Portraits which were created out of a love for our four footed friends and nature. Let my introduce you to my four footed friends who I have rescued.

This is Fred my whit lab/chow mix that the children rescued from a dogfight camp when he was just a puppy.

One year later my hubby rescued Barny, someone drop him off at his work and he was starving to death so my hubby brought him home and this is what he looks like now. He is a Black Sheppard/ Chow Mix.  

And this year I rescued Kiwi, he was walking a crossing Waterman Ave which is a main and busy road in San Bernardino, Ca. he was dehydrated, lose and almost got hit by a car.

This is the lasted pet George, I got this one from my sister...

but after one month I got tired of seeing Kiwi and George fighting all the time so now this is George new home. 

   

 As you can see I do have a love for animals and my four footed friends and I want to welcome you to our little world and to let you know that you are always welcome to come on in and pull up a chair and bring your hot cup of tea or coffee, relax, kick your shoes off and browse around through my site and pages. We hope you enjoy your visit.

Se ya’ll later…