Morning
So today started with feeding the French Bulldog pups. Cleaning their puppy room, changing out bedding, sanitizing the floor, changing out litter boxes, putting fresh water, etc. I have bred French Bulldogs for a little over 8 years. I will go into breeding more in depth in another blog. www.soulsoffaithfrenchies.com
This year is harder to sell the French Bulldogs at the price that we deserve to receive (quality of the French Bulldogs and what we have put into our program). I am really thinking this will be my last litter. This is why I am trying to find another avenue to move into to create income.
After feeding them I moved to feeding my adult French Bulldogs and we also own an English Bulldog and American Bully. I feed all of my dogs in crates so that there is no issues if one of them were to get a wild hair up their butt and want to be aggresive over the food. This decision comes with years of experience dealing with multiple dog personalities. After feeding them I let them out into an area that we have fenced off for the dogs to hang out and do their business. I let them out in specific groups according to their personalities and gender.
Be Careful
Breeding dogs, you have to be careful with your intact females and your males, because you will have an oops breeding if your are not careful. I thank goodness have never had an oops breeding.
While they are outside I clean their crates and the dog room where they sleep in their crates and also are crated if we are not home. This is our decision after multiple years of owning animals. The crate is their safe place and protects them if they are unsupervised. We do have camera’s in the dog room.
We also have two big dogs that spend the majority of their time outside. A German Shepherd and a Chocolate lab. Lately we have had them in the garage overnight with heat lamps because it gets cold at night. I then let them outside during the day. They have automatic water bowls and automatic feeders.
My Ederly Parents
I also take care of my ederly parents. We moved them here to San Antonio from Roswell NM around 2 1/2 years ago.
At this time we sold our home and purchased a home on 2 acres that had the accomadations that we needed. We built on to a storage building and made them a 2 bedroom, 2 bath little home.
So I make sure that they are eating and taking their meds daily. Today my mom wanted me to order her a Whataburger Cobb Salad and drink. I call uber have it delivered and then take it to her. My dad ate a potpie. My mom is 80 and my dad is 83. I will write more on this subject in a later blog.
So after taking care of my mom and dad, I put together a crock pot meal for my husband and I. I did Honey Glazed Chicken and Vegetables. I whisked together Honey, Garlic, Soy Sauce, oregano, and ketchup in a small bowl. I added Chicken, Potatoes, Carrots and Onions to the crock pot. (Just a note I like to use crock pot liners). After this, I poured the honey garlic sauce mixture over the tip of the ingreditants in the crock pot. I then sealed the lid. I will cook for 3 !/2 hours on high. About 20 minutes before I serve I will add green beans and you can also add corn starch the make the mixture thicker. You will then let it cook for 20 more minutes. I will attach the recipe. https://www.wellplated.com/slow-cooker-honey-garlic-chicken/#wprm-recipe-container-37253
Midday
After preparing this I needed to put my grandson’s booster seat in my SUV so I can go pick him up from pre-k. My daughter has a luxury picnichttps://www.facebook.com/eventique.luxpicnics?mibextid+ZbWKwL business and is doing a set up this afternoon. So she will need to leave at 2:30 PM So I am picking him up from school and hanging out with him until around 7 to 7:30.
Grandson
When we get back from the school I will need to feed the puppies and I will take them outside to their designated puppy area for about 30 minutes. ( I will go over the designated area in a later blog). While I am outside for this 30 minutes I will make sure my grandson has a snack he can eat. I will also do a live on my social media platforms for the puppies so that I can hopefully get them sold. They are 10 weeks old and ready to go to their new homes.
Puppies
I will then take them back inside to their puppy area. I transport them in and out of the house in a wagon as I do not let them touch the ground until they are fully vaccinated. ( I will speak about this in a later blog). I will also start letting my adult Frenchbulldogs, My english Bulldog, and My American Bully in and outside for their afternoon playtime. While they are playing outside I will also take my grandson to our little playground we have on our property and let him play for a little while.
Husband Home
Around 430/ 445 my husband will arrive home from work and we will eat dinner, hang out, and talk for a bit. After this I will probably go work on a project I am doing outside moving some rocks for a driveway we are putting together. Our property is sitting on a bed of limestone so we have lots of stones and rock that we have recovered with our many projects on the 2 acres since we moved here in 2021. ( I will talk about more of this in a later blog).
Evening
When it starts getting dark around 630 we will go inside and find something to watch on TV until my grandson’s mom gets back.
At 8 PM I take nighttime meds to my mom and dad and make sure they do not need anything else for the evening. They have buttons they can push if they need anything and both have cell phones.( I will talk about this more in a later blog).
About 8:30 PM I feed the adult French Bulldogs, English Bulldog, and my American Bully. Let them in and out for their nighttime outside time. When they come in I ensure they all have water and they sleep in their crates until morning.
9:00 PM is down time for my husband and I.