Annie has a lot to learn about life around here. She’s eager to encounter every new opportunity and is ready to go at a moment’s notice.

Annie the Border Collie is in training camp. We’re drilling through the basics: Come, stay, sit, lie down. She’s learning about all the characters around here: grassfed cattle, grainfed herd, barn cats, etc.

If you do the math, Oscar's 'energy burned per foot of travel' quotient is extremely high.

The storage space, you see, is the Hound's favorite place in the house, so it was business as usual during a recent decluttering extravaganza when I hauled the little dog up the ladder with me.