Sometimes a greyhound pillow is the best kind. Needless to say, Joey has really taken to his new life here with his new pillows sisters.
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by James Brush
Tag: daphne
Folded clothes. Suitcases. Travel-sized toiletries. What could it mean?
Yup. It looks like the girls (and their cat) will be taking a little vacation while their people go off to Camp Periwinkle for the week.
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Fourth of July week can be very trying for dogs what with the skyrockets and all. This was Phoebe’s first Independence Day with us and we learned that she is as terrified of artificial explosions above her home as she is of thunder.
This was a long dark week of the soul for poor Phoebe who had to wander around shivering and panting all day listening to thunder and then all night as she listened to fireworks.
Daphne, who is terrified of everything except thunder and fireworks, slept through most of the ordeal awakened only by Phoebe’s bed and couch shaking shivering.
And as if all that wasn’t enough, they even got baths.
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Ok, I’m not one to dress up my pups, but sometimes I’m just sitting there and there’s a hat nearby and the dogs are just lying there.
I get curious.
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It’s vacation time. Morrison and Phoebe left for the resort spa yesterday, but since Daphne is too afraid to be boarded, she’ll be staying with my sister’s family for the week. She doesn’t get to start her vacation until later today, though. In the meantime, you can tell she misses her friends.
Or maybe she’s just glad to have the bed and couches to herself for a little while.
And where are the apes going?
(Emerald Bay at Lake Tahoe – Image by Neil Li borrowed from Wikipedia)
We’re off to Lake Tahoe for the week. I’ve wanted to see the area ever since I read Mark Twain’s Roughing It back in high school. We won’t be roughing it, but we also won’t burn down half the lake shore as Twain accidentally did in the mid-nineteenth century.
See you next week.
Tail wagging, teeth snapping, legs flailing… you’ll have to imagine all that. Sometimes a girl just has to go a little crazy, right Daphne?
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Warning: some of the photos are of a graphic nature.
It seems that from time to time, especially on sunny days, the apes enjoy tormenting their poor greyhounds. No one knows why this occurs. One minute a pup is lounging on the couch and suddenly, without so much as a recitation of miranda rights, the poor hound is carried away to be tortured without any recourse or even a visit from the Red Cross or the Greyhound Protection League.
We have tried to document the atrocities in order to raise awareness.
Here is one of the torture rooms located in Austin, Texas. Notice the sweet smelling poison (behind the faucet) that will be slathered all over the victims’ fur.
Greyhound Phoebe wouldn’t talk, but you can see the poison on her coat.
Finally, Greyhound Daphne was put to the water torture, but she also refused to betray her loyalties. “Do your worst,” she said.
When water and shampoo wouldn’t work, they were forced to endure the psychological humiliation of being paraded around the neighborhood stripped of their hard-earned odor and looking all fluffy.
Finally, Daphne led the retreat back to the couch…
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Readers of this blog who bother to read my greyhound posts (both of you) know that Daphne is the shy one. The one that never barks. The one that is afraid of… well, of everything. I think it’s why she only ever (willingly) goes outside at night. Unfortunately for me, she loves to go out at night. Almost every night. But it was on one particularly luminous night that I let her out and while sitting on the couch waiting for her to come back to the door, I heard barking. Not just any barking, but full-throated ferocious barking.
The neighbor’s dogs sometimes bark at Daphne and Phoebe, but usually my pups just ignore them. But this barking was different. I went to the window and squinted out into the unusually bright night to see what I could see and was stunned to see Daphne – Daphne! – running along the fence barking at the two neighbor dogs. I could see her teeth flashing in the glow of moonlight and her bark (which had previously only been heard six times in the past four years) was that of a big dog.
My sweet, gentle Daph was out there tearin’ shit up and trying to throw down with the neighborhood hounds. I was so proud.
Since that day, however, I’ve not heard a peep from her.
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Want to make a fast friend by saving a greyhound in Central Texas? Check these pups out. Or go here to find a greyhound near you. You can also go here to find out why greyhounds are running for their lives.
If you have dogs who need proven leadership, go here to find a cat.
Ok, so Daphne isn’t really a dangerous greyhound. She just likes to gently chew on people when it’s time to play. She’s just a bit mouthy. Like a shark.
Doug petch’s comment-a-thon to help greyhounds continues on this post (it’s a new one, so go over and leave a comment and he’ll donate to a greyhound rescue group) and don’t forget to visit this week’s Carnival of the Dogs and Friday Ark
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Want to make a fast friend by saving a greyhound in Central Texas? Check these pups out. Or go here to find a greyhound near you. You can also go here to find out why greyhounds are running for their lives.
If you have dogs who need proven leadership, go here to find a cat.