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As you know, we lost Carlee, our family Schnoodle when we went in for a 3-month checkup, September 14, 2020. She was 14 and a very sad day.  Many of you know the tears attached to losing a fur family member. It was not on our mind to go out and get another pup, until it was and then we did. Our home was still and very quiet, a first in decades. A family of many were at a local rescue and February 2021, feet found their way home again. Several friends scolded for not waiting, but these small lost souls needed a home, we had openings and this breed was on our list of someday. 

Wow. Whirlwind, not like any other. One, more fearful than the other. Learning these two may not have been bonded, but lived in same house. Stepping into our home, we let them roam initially and eventually gate rooms. Freedom with fenced yard, decompress, watching them unfold running like the wind. Beautiful. Food, water, soft beds and learning a routine, and even wanting to give them back, but it would take more than a few months to untangle years of unkind. Patience tried. Tears. Family say they have grown, yes, to a point. They have filled in. 

Bella and Liesl love being read to and sleep in a quiet home with random dog barks from neighbor yards. Hair finally fills in on thin legs where Winter will be more kind this go round. Bella, 7, is always thinking and hard to out smart. She doesn't like her collar messed with and fearfully fears water, the rag on the floor has oatmeal shampoo to help with itch on feet. Catch the kibble is a game played so she will walk across multiple times and even sit on. Rag rinsed and the game replays. Aha moment, it works and she looks forward too with Liesl, 16, joining in. Both are treat driven. What luck for them! 

September 30, 2021 will begin our 15th year of baking dog biscuits. We continue to handcut each, using the same cutters, cutting tens of thousands over the years. Weekend baking is fewer hours, so the girls see more of our front than our backside as we did with Buster and Carlee. December 2020 a tough decision to weigh, due to the corona virus, and if we would renew our feed permit good for two years, a steep cost that grows. Visited with friends and we renewed once more, baking resumes in making, baking, bagging, selling and meeting pups and their pawrents with option of a human treat element meeting mainly at the wonderful long lived farmers market.  Wow, what a whirlwind ride. Bab's in Bab's Bites 'n Bones is an acronym for Buster and Barb. 

Our focus will be on these girls, continue learning from each other, training, walk on leash, key words, recall, fetch, quick dog kisses, meet with trust for others and up at 5:30a daily. Its routine. Hoping for more car rides, walking a trail, but in time. 

Next chapter. Winding down, but that is for another day. Please be kind to all, help others that cross your path and we will continue to do the same. Thanks furends/friends.