Food for thought... if you travel and stay in motels you may want to consider the hotel up charges for travelling with any animal35-75 addtl per nite. In addition consider the vet bills which you have had Cost of animal ownership is getting higher
Flip side... animal ownership provides a lot of companionship if alone. Decide what breed you want, large or small, and look for a REPUTABLE breeder. There are many out there who are mini puppy mills. Be careful and watch the temperament of the parent. This is if you want to train a puppy which can be fun
We just put down our Pomeranian/
poodle mix and started travelling. May look again come spring

I had a friend who did a wheelie on a tractor. It went all the way over and landed on top of him, crushing his chest. They airlifted him to a hospital. He spent 6 months in a medically induced coma and came out with several titanium ribs. Medical expenses exceeded $1million.

It was his fault. He did a dumb thing, i.e. trying to pull something heavy without using the drawbar. The drawbar is mounted below the rear axle and he had a chain attached above the rear axle. Pulling with the drawbar exerts a torque on the tractor pushing the front wheels toward the ground. Pulling above the rear axle exerts a torque that pulls the tractor over backwards.

I once had a tricycle tractor (single front wheel and two large rear wheels). The single front wheel could be turned past perpendicular to the frame. You could actually turn the tractor with one of the rear wheels stationary using the differential brakes. When I bought that tractor (JD model B) the first thing I did was to add a roll bar. JD would sell roll bars at cost to encourage people to use them. Although I lifted the front wheel a couple times by engaging the hand clutch too quickly, I never got it more than a foot up. The JD model B was built between 1937 and 1953 I believe, but in the '90s you could still get parts.

Tractors today have a top speed of 18 mph out of the factory. There are fools that bore and stroke the engines to get more power and re-do the transmission to get more speed and they race them. Given my experiences with a tractor I was never tempted to do that. 18 mph is fine on a road, but 5 mph can be way too fast on a field. The tractor, unlike cars, has no suspension. The only cushion from variations in the ground level come from the pneumatic tires.

Years ago when digital was fairly young and I was only slightly old, the company used a program called Photo Mechanic that I found handy for quickly reviewing and sorting photos. After leaving that job, I just used the Mac photo program, then gradually moved to Lightroom and Photoshop. But I still remember how easy the basic first processing step was with PM. What do y'all think of PM? Still easy to use? Also, while researching this I got to a site called allmacworld.com that is offering a free download of Photo Mechanic 6. That's a whole lot better than buying it but I'm suspicious and don't want to get hacked or whatever. So what does everyone think or know: legit site or better steer clear?

I love my trail cameras; I have four now (again). This is my newest one, a Browning with dual sensors for day and night, and it's fabulous. The other dual-sensor camera in my possession is the one overlooking the Perch, which has seen little activity lately.

I placed this camera in a camera near the Continental Divide Trail in the Burro Mountains southwest of Silver City, NM, for those of you who fuss at me for leaving out location details. As is my custom, I do not bait my cameras with food but will provide water for the animals since we are in a drought of Biblical proportions. Not visible in these photos (snapshots taken from videos) are two depressions in the bedrock where I put a gallon of water each. I got some good stuff from this location, including two varieties of skunk, a fox, the requisite endless chipmunks, squirrels, and birds, a mule deer, and several videos of a ringtail, more than I've gotten in almost five years of this nonsense.

And I got what I assume to be a coyote family, a long-suffering Mom and her brat. Prior to these scenes she appeared in a couple of videos, clearly worried over the whereabouts of someone, which turned out to be Junior here. The adult stands on the foreground rock, fully aware of the camera, waiting for the little idiot. He (I'm guessing) shows up looking joyfully full of mischief, and he does not disappoint: he snaps playfully at Mom from several angles before going for a below-the-belt angle and biting her right rear leg. She seems unfazed but then springs off the rock, her youngster in pursuit, nipping at her tail. The expression on his face throughout this video is priceless.

Both animals look healthy, and I love the white forefeet on the adult female. I left the camera where it was and repositioned it (originally it was aimed higher to take in more of the beautiful canyon, but a squirrel removed the stick that angled it upward. This happens a lot). I never know until I've swapped out the SD cards and returned home to view the results if I've got a good spot, and then it might be a couple of weeks before I return to any of the cameras. So it's a crap shoot, which may explain why it's so addictive.

Sometimes I edit the photos for greater contrast or whatever, but these are the originals--it's a darned good camera! I hope you'll enjoy them. My business is shut down again so I plan to spend a lot of time in the forest.