The best news and information source in Whatcom County • Bellingham, WA • Wednesday, September 24, 2003

ANIMAL FARM: Cindy Brandenburger holds Tinker, a client's 11-week-old pomeranian puppy, and her yearling stud colt, a registered quarterhorse, whose barn name is Prince. She pastures the colt with her 24-year-old maiden mare, a term that means she's never foaled. "I wasn't sure I wanted to pasture them together," said Brandenburger, "but who knows? We might get lucky." JACK KINTNER PHOTO

Jack Kintner, For the Bellingham Herald

BLAINE - When Cindy Brandenburger kenneled her beloved Australian shepherd, Happy, while she made a Christmas visit to her Oklahoma hometown a few years ago, she was told on returning that her "vicious dog" was not welcome back.

"They asked me why I hadn't warned them" she said, "but I was trying to figure out what they might have done. Happy was 14 years old and the definition of gentle."

 

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Brandenburger, a trained veterinary technician with 15 years' experience in the field with both large and small animals, decided that whatever may have happened - she still doesn't know - she could do a better job herself.

Having recently moved with daughter Brianna, now 13, and son Blayne, now 16, to a 20-acre farm east of Blaine, Brandenburger opened A Sweet Country Kennel, where the emphasis is on dogs and other small animals getting along with each other as well as with her.