On Wednesday morning at 9:00 AM we backed the dog trailer (open wire type siding and partitions with 10 holes) outside the pup's shortrun. Wife passed each pup over the fence to husband who put one pup in each hole. KB was loaded in one of the two remaining holes. Each pup froze as husband placed it in the dog trailer. Then, very slowly, each pup would tiptoe around and smell the floor and sides. We pulled the trailer around front to a big shade tree. We then gave each pup a 7-in-1 vaccination shot. Wife would open each door and hold each pup. She would babytalk and scratch each pup. They would stretch out in her lap and lay their head back in her arms. Then mean old Dad (the one who pinched their ears with the tattoo tongs) lifted the skin on the back of their neck and gave the vaccination shot. Not one pup flinched.
We then pulled the dog trailer down along the longruns. We have fifteen adjacent, chain-link fenced longruns. A gravel drive runs along the 390'front. Nine longruns are 30' x 300', six are 20' x 300'. The pups were placed in the ninth longrun which is one of the bigger ones. Each longrun has a 10'gate. A 4' x 8' marine plywood sheet, centered 15' inside the longrun is mounted on top of six fence posts for shade and cover. In this particular longrun we placed four igloo type doghouses with the entrances just under the cover. Previous dogs have dug holes near and beneath the shade cover. These holes make cool places for the pups to lay. We placed two water buckets in the longrun, one bigger with a handle clipped to the front fence. A smaller water bucket was placed next to one of the fence posts of the cover. The baby-type swimming pool from the shortrun was cleaned and placed in the front right-hand corner of the longrun and filled with water. A farm-type water hydrant is just outside the front fence. The longrun has paths along each fenceline where previous dogs have worn out the grass. Each chain-link fence is buried 6 to 8 inches. Thick grass (that gets mowed every week or two) exists from the shade cover to the far end of the longrun. In
