Where's the Spray! - Working Out Set-up Bugs

So, I'm still trying to get everything in sync. PayPal got on board, but had my last name and email address wrong. After sending messages in a bottle to them through their email system, I finally got a hold of a real, live person and they managed to do it.

I want people to feel secure.

The second best thing is that I found out how to do a refund. Again, I want people to know I have a Heart. If they need their $2 back, I want to give it back! So, "Thank You" PayPal for being so Awesome!!!

Still trying to work on my FRC classes. Apparently, I wasn't listed in my History 108 class. Just a tiptoe through the park of beauracracy - and now I am. HA! The class is an Eye-opening view of the early Colonial times and very enjoyable. Once I have my book, I should be set.

Here is a test run on uploading Video feeds.

(HA!!! It sort of worked - see Side Bar)

Here's the situation:

(The video itself is horribly shot - sorry about the bouncing - but the sound clarity and the Heart-ache of the Wolf within Bud and his expectation of being heard and accepted to beautiful to miss.)

Quincy is located in the Heart of the High Sierra's. The wolves of California are long extinct, but the coyote's are still present, move in decent size packs and actually larger than Bud. For wolves and direct dog/wolve mix breeds, California is fairly strict about pens and kennels. But for 100's of year old mix breeds like the Greenland/Icelandic Hounds, the laws are as relaxed as they are for any dog breed.

On this day, a Coyote pack was moving through the mountain range. Since they are a meandering group, they usually take about 2 to 3 weeks to complete their trek along the American Valley. Often, they howl and make verbal contact with all the wolve breeds along the way. This is a way of gaining new memebers for their pack, and purely instincual. However, for dogs, it is also a siren's call. Often dogs are lured with play and then killed for food. Coyote's do not consider dogs remotely similar to them. It's like asking a Tiger to consider a house cat as a cousin. Nope, it's just a kind of food.

So here you see Buddy answering the calls of the coyotes. Unfortunately, you can't hear them. The coyotes are approximately half a mile away. When they pass through, everyone with wolf mixes have to keep their animals very contained and always leashed. If you let them out, you might get your dog back half injured, or they might not come back at all. A mix like Bud would most likely be eaten - since the smell of humans and dogfood permeates his smell. But you never know. They might recognize the wolf in him and take him in. I never thought it was worth his life to find out.

More about the breed:

Greenland Hounds are also known as Icelandic Hounds. They are a cross between the Isabell White Husky breed and the White Wolves of those islands. This also means they are fish eaters. You can feed them dogfood but it's not in their best interest, so we supplement with sardines and other fishes. The ratio of wolf to dog is pretty low - they've been being bred for about 400 years - so you can get away with dog food for a long time, but the wolf in them requires real food - fresh meat.

I highly recommend the breed to anyone in a cool climate. They are friendly, fun-loving, incredibly responsive to physical and vocal cues (bred for dog-sledding). Just realize they shed, but never as much as a true Huskey.

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