Wild Ivy Ranch

When I moved to Oregon I was given the choice of a room in the house or into a travel trailer I jumped at the chance to move into the trailer. It’s really nice and it’s great doing pretty much everything on my own schedule. I’m really grateful to Brandy for inviting me to move up here. 

What I meant by “pretty much my own schedule” is that whenever you live on a ranch with animals they have to be taken care of. With three of us living here I don’t have a lot of responsibility I just try to help out with feeding, watering and clean up in the morning. 

One of the downsides of owning animals is when you lose them whether it’s from illness or old age it’s never easy. Since we moved up here we have already lost Oliver our goat, Ella the Corgi who passed away overnight with no warning sign, Stoli the Malamute who was just to tired to go on and Bea, one of the Saints who died from cancer. None was any harder or easier than another. Basically it just sucks to lose pets. 

In the meantime with 8 horses, 2 donkeys, 2 pigs, 1 goat, 9 dogs and 7 cats there are plenty of animals around to keep us busy and provide lots of love. I’m not going to try to show every one of them because one of our cats Penelope is a recluse and I’d be sure to miss some but here are a few.