Writer, dog lover, photographer, human kindness activist, Jon Katz’s website includes a daily blog about dogs, love, kindness and hope.
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I just got an email that my latest batch of wool is ready. I won’t have as much as last time and I think it’s all dyed, but I can’t remember what colors. So it will be a surprise when I pick it up. I hope to make the trip to the Vermont Fiber Mill...Read Entire Post
Dancing Dogs
I don’t think we got this kind of snow all winter. But the spring birds are still singing and chasing each other through the air. I made sure to fill the feeder and covered the one daffodil and tiny primrose that came up in the garden, with a plastic bucket. Not being able to graze...Read Entire Post
Rose keeps on working. “The Story Of Rose: A Man And His Dog,” my first e-book original is on the New York Times Bestseller list coming out 9/16, the fourth week the book has been a New York Times Bestseller. Thank you all. The book is available everywhere digital books are sold – Amazon, Bn.com, […]
Poor Lenore! None of the other animals at Bedlam Farm welcome her. Even Rose the border collie is too busy to play. But Lenore refuses to give up, and when she licks a grumpy ram named Brutus—right on the nose!—an unexpected friendship begins. Jon Katz's irresistible photographs chronicle this true story of a dog determined to make friends.
Last springs wool is ready. Yesterday, Deb from The Vermont Fiber Mill, sent me the final invoice and Jon and I will be picking up my wool made into yarn on Sunday. I honestly don’t remember how much of the wool I had dyed and what colors I chose. I was planning on having it...Read Entire Post
Monday morning, we opened the rear pasture for grazing over the next two days. Lulu climbed up on a mound of debris to graze. She is 12 years old now, we have been friends for a long time. Lulu is the chief guard donkey, she watches over the farm. She is calm, intelligent, affectionate. All […]
I told Red to hold the sheep – we were going to close the gate – and when you tell Red to hold the sheep you can take it to the bank that they will be held. This morning, though a twist, a rebellion, the donkeys began heading towards the hay feeder and the sheep […]
I know the colder it is outside, the more hungry I get. I think it’s the same with the sheep and donkeys. When it’s cold out they have little patience for anything more than carrots and hay. The pasture is covered in a thin layer of snow, that they can easily graze though. So they...Read Entire Post
The first Bedlam Farm Open House of 2014 ended today, I think we had more than 500 people over both days, I can’t be certain. Each day Red and I put on some herding demos, he and the sheep are tired. This afternoon, he took on the final lambing challenge, getting Ma and Deb to […]
One tumultuous week into his life on the earth, Liam has taken on the role of official greeter, he goes from ewe to ewe saying hello, sniffing them. Today he came across Pumpkin and the two seemed to bond, Liam lay down next to Pumpkin for a nap. Liam does not seem to understand the […]
It was a tiring, sometimes tense day, and Red and Fate and I went into the deep woods at last light, it was cool and breezy in the woods, the wind had blown the flies and mosquitoes away, the last beam of light cut through the canopy in the forest. Red and Fate sat down […]
Red, waiting patiently, as always, for morning action at Bedlam Farm...
I think of Rose in the mornings some times, when she and I would walk the sheep over the big hill at the first Bedlam Farm, and then again on days like today, when there is so much hard ice all across the ground. She’s been dead about two years. Today I felt a grab […]
Scotland's oldest student run theatre is a 90-seat auditorium in a converted church near Greyfriar's Bobby and the National Museum of Scotland.
