Animal Kingdom

When I was 16 I got a dog for my birthday. She was the last puppy in the litter. No one had chosen her because she was the smallest. We took her home and she was named Annabelle. He mother had been a golden retriever and her father was a springer spaniel. She loved the water and would run to the creek next to our house to go swimming. She was very hard to take pictures of because she would always run up to you to lick you or jump on you. The easiest thing to do was have someone take a picture while you held her. A little over a two years ago she died. She had gotten pretty old and was moving a lot slower, but it was still hard to lose her.



From her last litter of puppies we kept one because she was the smallest one and because she had her back leg broken as a tiny puppy and had trouble running. I didn't want someone to take her and then get rid of her if she got worse. This was her at about 6 months old. As you can tell, the golden receiver came out strong in her.


She is a very lively dog and loves to swim too. However, with her weak back leg she doesn't get in very deep water because she isn't strong enough to swim against the current. We've had to "rescue" her from the other side of the creek before. This is her a few weeks ago.



Now, the baby goats are over a month old and are very lively and bouncy. They are also scared of people (just like their parents). These are the first two that were born.



These are the other two (each have different moms). This was the closest I could get to them without them running away. I zoomed in on them as well. You can't really get any closer than about 6 feet from them before they run away.



There is still at least two goats that haven't had babies yet. So we shall see when that happens.