17/08/2026
This is a very long post, trying to summarize the last two years. :
I know I have been absent for a while, but Life has made some very serious changes for me.
The middle of 2024 my husband and a friend that came to help me each accidentally allowed a breeding which has led to the chaos added to my Idaho stubby strutters, defamation problem. I know several of the people that supported me on that post have come back and gotten another dog or two in a couple cases.
two days before Christmas in 2024 I lost my husband to COPD. Terrible, terrible way to go. And last spring in March a friend brought over a gal that said she wanted to come get a corgi and she walked through my house and out the front door and left. 20 minutes later animal control showed up on my doorstep. She asked if she could come in and I said no unless you have a warrant. As far as I know, never heard from her again. But the fear of her return made me so overwhelmed with the need to protect my dogs that my neighbor agreed to let me put some of them in his shop for a while, just till things settled down. While they were there, he came over one night to ask things about the dogs and then he said “you’re going to the hospital tomorrow“. I said “no I’m not“, he said “yes you are“. 8 o’clock the next morning he’s banging on my bedroom door, telling me to get dressed that we had to leave. I was taken to Caldwell and they transferred me to the Boise Saint Al’s where I laid an ER for hours, which is pretty normal. My neighbor stayed with me the entire day until they got me settled into a room. Long story, shortened, I was there for four days, went through four MRIs, including a scan of my brain;( I don’t think they found anything there. )they also did a couple of CAT scans and a specific MRI for my lower abdomen. As well, there was an echocardiogram or EKG. The results of all of this said that I have a “squishy heart“ in other words I have a valve issue. And they found a gallstone. This one doctor (who was so endearing!) kept coming in and poking me saying does this hurt does this hurt? Does this hurt and nothing hurts but my arthritis. So he said that his team discussed all of this and decided that since nothing was bothering me that they were not going to do any surgeries. He said “ quite frankly, we don’t know what to do with you! “ I told him that was nothing new and a lot of people felt that way about me! Lol I did endure a catheter and lost over 20 pounds of fluid! So the chunky Kathleen that you knew is now pretty skinny! Went from a XXL to a size 12 and they’re starting to get loose. But through all of this chaos I’m so busy taking care of dogs that I don’t have much time to do anything else. Maybe three hours a day to plan doctor appointment or go shopping, etc. and I still have many, too many, young dogs to place,. This includes a couple of agility prospects or performance prospects, and two or three show quality, but some really really lovely sweet babies for pet homes. So, starting with the defamation and going through all of this in the last two years, I have decide. to retire from breeding corgis. It breaks my heart to think of it because I love them so much and I’ve had so much success with them finding good quality, homes, exciting morning, my girl show honors, people doing performance stuff with my dogs. Period it’s just too hard right now. i’m adding a bunch of pictures so I can share my babies with you. It was really funny because the people that got one of my little babies with a tail went to walk out and her husband pointed to this muddy fluffy and said “ I want him! “They’re good people they’ve been around and had dogs from me so, of course, I agreed with him and they took two babies home, the little tri with a tail and a grown fluffy boy! The little girl standing in a show stack is Maia  which means cherished and beloved. She’s gone down to Pueblo Colorado to be a mountain, hiking girl and probably an agility girl. The little boy striding towards me, is.‘Berto, show prospect and just as sweet as they come. Will try headshot is profit and he’s also a show prospect. Then the other tailed wonder is a little fluffy. He and his sister went to Home’s the same day! those two were so funny when I went to feed them he would just sit at the sauce bowl and keep eating and she’d take a bite or two then come check on me. I tell her “you better go eat cause he’s gonna eat it all, you better go eat your breakfast cause he’s gonna eat it all and she’d go over Take a couple more bites and then come over and check on me and I tell her the same thing. It was so cute. It’s the kind of stuff. I’m gonna miss.
OK, enough reminiscing. Please just say some prayers for the dogs and me. I’m very lonely,. My husband and I have been married for 55 years & one month. I just miss him so much.
Thank you all for your support and kind words for so many years. I’ll try to be a little more present on this page.
If anyone would be interested, I would be happy to send you the three rig binder that I give out as a puppy packet. It has dividers for safety, training, Medical, grooming, euthanasia, and grief,  miscellaneous, fun articles. The only thing I ask is to reimburse me for the shipping cost or mailing cost. My printers been giving me a lot of problems so I’m behind on making these up. I’ve got about six. I have to make now but it’s full of all that good information that you all like. send me a text or email with your address and I’ll put you on my list making these up.
