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Central Oregon Pals with Paws is associated with Battle Buddies of Central Oregon. and The House of Hope Ministries. Please like their page at www.facebook.com/cobattlebuddy and House of Hope Ministries.

26/09/2025

Hugo and I returned from our walk to see a big black cat with Moche. Hugo went into high speed GUARD DOG mode. The black cat went. No body, nothing better bother Hugos cat. Moche chased the intruder down the driveway. I don’t know if Moche needed Hugos assistance. The black cat saw 100 pounds of white furry fury and decided it prudent to leave. Hugo leaped, whirled, and tried to run to Moche and protect her. I held on to the leash of 100 pounds of livestock guardian dog. Moche was alive and Hugo was going to keep her that way. I threw 200 pounds of crazy old man on top of 100 pounds of mad dog. Fortunately Hugo likes me and did not see the need to throw me off. I rested, Hugo squirmed, and time passed. Not the most relaxing walk.

18/09/2025

Today the w**d guy is coming. We probably should clarify what kind of w**d. Tumblew**d and cheatgrass eradication, hopefully. DDT, paraquat, agent orange, roundup, glyphosate, 24d, (might be related to two ds and a t), caseron, pre emergent, post emergent, and residual. The plan is to mix it all together and put it in one of those big water trucks they use in building roads. Drive up the property and spray everything. Everything dies except the cheatgrass and tumblew**d. We hope those two are stunted. Only have to pull half as
many. Actually they developed a cheat grass specific herbicide. The Russians use of herbicides in war is different.
Tumblew**d just tumbles on
reseeding the world. Hugo and I will leave for the day. We don’t want to breathe all that herbicide. Moche may stay in but we think she has five lives left. Moche is hard to contain. Tumblew**d is not dog friendly. Cheatgrass is worse. It gets between the toes and will work up to the head. Veterinarians make a it profit from cheat grass. Do they really hire drones to reseed? Puncture vine,(goat head), is painful. It is usually easy to pull out of Hugo’s foot and have it stuck in my finger. Hugo can then walk on. Weeds are a plant in the wrong place. I have never found the right place for cheatgrass, puncture vine or tumblew**d. We planted wheatgrass varieties to compete with cheatgrass. It will outgrow most w**ds. Bunch grass ninjas. Hugo and I will walk to the limb dump, drive to town, come home and take a nap, walk to the limb dump, take a nap. Then the herbicide will be dry and safer. The coming snow will be good for the soul of man and beast. Make for good time walks.

17/09/2025

I try to stay out of politics on this page. And this is not political. It is common courtesy. Charlie Kirk was shot and killed by a deranged man. His wife and kids were there. Don’t speak ill of the dead, is a social rule. The family and friends are grieving their loss. I would not celebrate the death of Hi**er, Mussolini, Stalin, or other dictators or genocidal mainiacts. I would not object to their assasination, but I would not celebrate it. Those who say Charlie Kirk deserved to die are not people I would want to be with. There are many people who I disagree with. Some I think are toxic and doing great damage to our society. But I do not want them killed for what they say. I believe in the freedom of speech. I believe in open dialogue. We can disagree, but we can be civil and respectful. Charlie Kirk had a remarkable ability to bring facts up to support his beliefs. He welcomed those who did not believe as he did. He was able to bring many to see the fallacy of their thinking. He was a remarkable person. He did not hate anyone. Our culture has deteriorated to the point of accepting silencing, persecution, violence, even death to those who do not follow the current politically correct narrative. This is often done in the guise of inclusion and tolerance. I have to think the world should be more dog like. Lift your leg and walk away. They have expressed their displeasure with your actions or ideas, but leave you to make a fool of yourself without help. In Minnesota, Alaska, and many places with an unforgiving climate, people will tell you to wear a warmer coat, waterproof boots. If you choose not to, they will let you be cold or have wet feet. That is your right to freedom. You pay the consequences, personally. The people there will not let you freeze to death, but you have a right to be miserable because of your choice. You were advised. We can present the truth, but it is your choice to accept it. Sometimes you will pay a high price. I have seen many people who show a lifetime of poor judgment. Our culture is now paying the price of poor judgement in our societal choices. Charlie Kirk was trying to point out how our common cultural choices have become toxic. You don’t have to agree but you should listen and make logical, factual, decisions. Not just accept the current group think. Think, go take your dog for a walk.

16/09/2025

We went to Portland for the weekend. Nice trip to see family. Hugo stayed home and Steve dog sat. Hugo was good, he likes Steve. They went to the limb dump and Hugo got his dog bones. I played Racko with the kids. I lost. Saw a couple of biplanes take off. Not sure how Hugo would feel about big birds coming and going. Helicopters were practicing. Chinese students. Not sure I like that there people are here spying on us. Hugo doesn’t like it at all. When I got home I took Hugo out to stretch his legs and mine. Nice walk.

11/09/2025

It was 45 last night. 72 now. Didn’t get much above that. Hugo is much happier. Snow would be better, but winter will arrive.❄️❄️☃️. The moon is bright, night walks are good. Moche is accompanying us again. Sometimes we have to wait for her. She can only be so many feet behind Hugo. I saw a video of an African lion that has a wild cat snuggled up in his mane at night. They tracked the male lion with a drone 24 hours a day. The cat and lion slept together. Hugo protects Moche much like same way. Don’t mess with protected cats. If you do, you may not be able to walk.

08/09/2025

What’s on my mind? The moon. The pink, strawberry, black and blue, blood, harvest, half moon, and the eclipse. Hugo likes the full moon, I like the full moon. Hugo can see without the moon, but I can’t. The eclipse that never was. It could be seen in Africa but not Oregon. It was daylight here for the eclipse. Why don’t they schedule the lunar eclipse during the day when we are up anyway. The solar eclipse is always during the day. Hugo and I were disappointed with the lack of looner eclipse. I was, I don’t know that Hugo really cares. He does like full moon snow walks. He likes no moon snow walks. He likes snow walks. He likes walks. I was disappointed about the blood moon eclipse that would last an hour and a half. I suppose Africa put in a higher bid. TDS, another thing Trump did wrong. We had Teflon Bill, Bush bashing. Are we still blaming Bush? Dogs don’t blame others. They do shun. Maybe they are Amish, they don’t use suspenders, or have a mustache. They don’t use modern technology. They walk. Is that why all dogs go to heaven? Horses must go to heaven too. When the Amish, the horses, and dogs go to heaven. Is it a long walk?

04/09/2025

Thursday, tomorrow and tomorrow, and tomorrow, are all days ofCRR, annual yard sale weekend. Hugo and I will go buy other people’s useless junk. We need more. One man’s junk is another man’s treasure. Sometimes the other man thinks his junk is a treasure. One time I went to a sale and picked up an item to get a price, the husband said $1, the wife said,50 cents. The husband said, take it, it’s free. It’s hard to dicker on price when the sellers do it for you. Hugo was not impressed. He had no need for the item. No desire to own more stuff. He is probably smarter. He thinks the world needs more walks and fewer 100 degree days. Fall is when the temperature falls. Winter is when the snow falls. We have been able to do more walks. Early morning, late evening, hot afternoon naps. Life is hard. Harder when it is hotter. Hugo would like yard sales more if we went to them on our walks.

31/08/2025

Tomorrow is next month. Labor Day, then school. Fires are put on notice. Go out or get rained and snowed on. Hugo voted for snow. A peat bog fire was burning when my Mother was a little girl. It has been rained on buried in snow many times. It is still burning. Stubborn fire. Swedish fire? Christmas and Halloween decorations are in the stores. Maybe Thanksgiving will be in there too. Two, to, too and a tutu too. Or 2,2 and a too, two, To. Too many fires. Too much smoke. Too much heat. Too few walks. Too hot pavement. Hugo sleeps on the floor with air conditioning. 85 was too hot for us, now 75 is pushing our limits with heat. We welcome cool fall. Nice snowy winter. New moon , old moon, full moon, half moon, harvest moon, blue moon, black moon, pink moon, strawberry moon, snow moon, walks.

27/08/2025

The total amount of intelligence on this planet is fixed. The population is not. Knowledge is a dangerous thing. An ignorant person is someone who has not learned. A dumb person is someone who is unable to learn. A stupid person is someone who refuses to learn. An idiot is someone who has learned but refuses to apply their knowledge. Dogs may be ignorant, but not dumb. Dogs can not see many colors, but they learn to distinguish colors by shade. I have a friend who is color blind. He can’t tell the difference between red and green. They both look brown. Dogs exceptional ability to see shades of color can see the difference. I hope you find yourself ignorant. The more I learn, I find there is so much more I am ignorant of. An old Swedish proverb, We get too soon olt, and too late smart. If artificial intelligence has not invented artificial stupidity yet, I am sure they are well on the way. Too often they say, The world is going to the dogs. Too often they think that is a bad thing. Hugo and I went to the limb dump this morning, after the 3 inch rain. Lightning, thunder, water falling from the clouds. Unfortunately it was a short storm. The drops never got closer than 3 inches apart. Hugo and I were in the backyard during the storm. Fortunately it did not do long term damage to either of us. Did you read that as eether or ither? Does AI know the difference? Is AI smart enough to know when Hugo wants a walk?

25/08/2025

It’s hot. We have another fire. Hugo is not happy. We were visiting family in Portland. Came home early to rescue pets and house. Hugo was happy to see us. Fire is across the river over the hill and dale. We could see the flames at night. Some ash landed on us. Trying to find out if down town Geneva burned. Or if Alder springs is a hot tub. The last fire was in the same area, across the river. Starting up by lake Billy chinook. Smoke on Sunday. Clouds on Monday. Going to be a hot week. Too hot for four bare paws on asphalt. 103 in Sandy. Cooled off at blue box pass. The gold in the blue bucket may have melted. The blue bucket mine was never found. I don’t think it is even a mine. Just kids playing with a blue bucket in a creek in the desert. Hugo wants to go play in the creek, he doesn’t need a blue bucket or gold. Just cool water. And a kool walk.

21/08/2025

Hugo and I have had a trying couple of months. Veteranarian, doctor, dentist, bed rest, house arrest, no walks. I decided to go see my therapist. Hugo said, “suck it up buttercup.” Hugo is a therapy dog, emotional support dog, and a highly trained therapist. He has unconditional love. But sympathy is only given to real injury. He is a Glaser therapist student. Every thing you do takes you towards your goal or away from it.
DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow will come. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Don’t carry yesterday into it. Live in the now. Sometimes emotional support is brutal. It is nice to have a competent therapist on call. Sometimes without a call. Hugo sez, just walk it off. We can’t go for a walk. Let’s take a nap. That we can do. Now we are working up to our normal walk routine. But a nap sounds good. Walk, nap, walk nap, walk, walk.

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The Power Of A Paw

Helping people achieve better physical and emotional health through the unconditional love of a dog.

A charity created to help guide individuals through the process of acquiring a service dog or therapy dog. Everyone deserves the love and help of a dog, in a timely and affordable fashion. Pals with Paws is associated with The House of Hope Ministries. Please like their page at www.facebook.com/houseofhoperedmond.

***We focus on empowering owners/handlers with knowledge, and an understanding of their rights. Most of the people seeking our service dog help will become the trainers themselves, specialty training is available when needed. We work heavily through the seasoned experience of our community, and the connections that our members have made. Together, you too can know the ‘Power of a Paw’ in an affordable and timely manor.***