Wigglebutts and the Little Fox

Arthur, the blind and hearing impaired, double merle Border Collie/Australian Shepherd, little miss Morgan, the border collie, and Fisher the field line English Setter, and all of our adventures in the Pacific Northwest. I also have a hobby farm with horses sheep, pigs, and chickens which may make appearances on here every so often. My main blog is @fatehasasenseofhumor which I haven't used in years.

[arthurwigglebutts]

How it started

How it ended

[thenoodlesadventures]

So this post is for anyone who needs to hear it.

Sometimes behavioral euthanasia is your only option.

Maybe someone else could help your dog. Maybe the right trainer could turn everything around. Maybe you haven't found the med that works for your dog yet. Maybe a different or more experienced owner wouldn't have made the same choices. Maybe if there weren't kids involved. Maybe if you weren't married. Maybe if you were married. Maybe if you live out in the country. Maybe if you were more diligent. Maybe if you didn't hover so much. Maybe. Maybe. Maybemaybemaybemaybe.

Maybe.

But none of that happened. And you're here now. And it was the right choice.

It was you. In the home you have. With whoever you had to help you. Or without any support. Handling your dog to the best of your ability at that moment in time.

That includes having limited mental and emotional bandwidth. There may have been more things you were physically capable of doing, but that doesn't mean you had the emotional and mental resources to do them. You would've done them if you could have. If you knew that you should.

But i know for sure that you didn't pay a few hundred dollars so that someone would kill your friend for no reason.

You did it because you were unsafe. Or because someone else was. Or because your dog was so overwhelmed by the world that they couldn't cope.

You certainly didn't walk into a vet appointment where every choice you'd ever made regarding the dog was questioned and you were told about all the local and breed specific rescues because you didn't try.

You made that appointment and walked in and suffered through the interrogation because you loved your dog enough to know that putting them through being rehomed or institutionalized in a shelter would lower their quality of life so significantly that it wouldn't be worth living for them. Or because you knew that no one would ever be safe living with them.

You did it because you cared. Because you loved them. Because you trusted that it was the best option. Because you tried.

And it still hurt. Even if you were angry and relieved. It still hurt.

So, let me encourage you to let go of "maybe". You loved them. You tried. You cared. It was and wasn't enough all at the same time. You made the right choice.

You're the only one who has to suffer with this decision because they're now at peace.

[arthurwigglebutts]

One day his ears are going to just fly away

[arthurwigglebutts]

Fish at 8 weeks and 12 weeks old

[arthurwigglebutts]

Little Fish already pointing wings

[arthurwigglebutts]

He hasn't quite figured out that Arthur can't see him

[arthurwigglebutts]

It's been a while since I have posted anything on here, I've still been around scrolling and watching all of you and your adventures, but between kids and the rest of the farm, I haven't had the time or energy to take, let alone post, photos, or write up updates. Arthur and Morgan are still around and enjoying their golden years, Lady is still the greatest dog, I lost Kaylee to idiopathic epilepsy back in 2024, that one hit really hard, she was my heart dog and best friend.

Since then we have been talking about getting an English Setter. It's been almost 2 years of planning, and he finally came home yesterday!

Meet Fisher! His registered name is The Fisher King, and I've been calling him Fish. My plan is to hunt pheasant, and hopefully get over the mountains to find some chukar with him. He's already very birdy and really confident and solid for his young age. It's been fascinating getting to know his parents and now him and comparing them to the border collies. The energy and drive are still there, but it's so different.

I'm hoping to get back into posting more often. I won't guarantee anything, lol, but I'll try. I haven't gotten my camera out in almost a year, having a toddler again doesn't help.

[pawsitivevibe]

I want to call a future dog (possibly even the next one) Nimue. But I would be dooming myself to having to tell people how to pronounce it every single day.

Maybe I would just spell it like it sounds anywhere that needed her name (vet, trials, classes, kennel, etc).

[arthurwigglebutts]

I absolutely love it as a name! Though to be fair on my end I've never called her by Nimue, it's always Nim, Bim, Bimbo, or Neem. But I do sometimes have to explain it to the vet when I call, since they have her full name in their system. Thankfully she's the only Nimue with my last name and my first name is very unique so they usually know who I'm talking about pretty quickly, even if I just say it's for Nim.

[stinkybrowndogs]

Breed Standard

[darkwood-sleddog]

Any dog under 100 pounds is a “little dog” to me. i will take no further questions

[blueboyluca]

if your dog is >10kg it’s big sorry i don’t make the rules

[doomspaniels]

Large and small are a state of mind determined by the dog. I’m not going to argue with an 11kg cocker spaniel who thinks he’s larger than a horse.

[404-moved-deactivated20250324]

Share a picture of your dog and a picture of what your dog is named for!

Fizz and Fizz (league of legends)

Mallow and The Marquess (FKA Queen Mallow) from The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in A Ship Of Her Own Making by Catherynne M Valente

Pidge and a pigeon

[dndeactivated]

dune: frank herbert's dune (1965)

indigo: the indigo valley in victoria, australia

[campfirecanines]

only one of my dogs is actually purposefully named after a thing

and that's bramble, who is named after the gin cocktail called a bramble

[boofblr]

it ain't easy being a funny little guy named after a character in a book that explores the grey areas of murder and other atrocities <3

[twogriffons]

erie and the ohl team erie otters/the city

albi and the french city of albi

[beansnpeets]

Oscar and Sprocket 😊

[arthurwigglebutts]

King Arthur Wigglebutts

Morgana

Kaylee, or a gender bent Sir Kay

Lady of the Lake

[arthurwigglebutts]

The snow finally melted and temps are above freezing again thankfully. Though that also brings back the rain, and quite a lot of it, so we are back to spending as little time outside as is possible.

[arthurwigglebutts]

[arthurwigglebutts]

A perfect litter of border collies

[arthurwigglebutts]

It may be single digits here for the first time in my life, but most of us are having fun!

[wolveswolves]

By Tanja Askani

[arthurwigglebutts]

We drove up into the mountains yesterday to play in the snow and find our Christmas tree. This was our first time up this specific forest service road, and it was absolutely beautiful! It's just across the highway from the more well traveled road that we usually venture up, and it was a much smoother ride, with even more breathtaking views.