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Weekend Hound Blogging: Workin’ the Floor

August 20, 2006 • • 6 Comments

Retired Racer

Yesterday, Phoebe joined some other greyhounds at the Greyhound Pets of America – Central Texas booth at the Austin Home and Garden show to help raise awareness and money to help retired racers find new homes. The booth was a hit, and many people came back around more than once to pet the greys.

And now for some greyhound eye candy…

Phoebe wearing her fancy jacket. Each pup got a jacket with a pocket so that people could make donations by filling the hounds’ pockets with cash…

Phoebe

This is Fancy being the star of the show…

Fancy

Grappa having a good laugh…

Grappa

Mary and Daisy…

Mary and Daisy

and Phoenix…

Phoenix

After a few hours of gladhanding the crowd, Phoebe was cashed and ready to head home…

Phoebe

Everyone had a good time, and the pups managed to raise a bucketful of cash to help rescue even more unwanted greyhounds. All of these pups have couches to sleep on and people who love them, but there are many out there who need forever homes.

Here’s a few. Here’s another one. Visit Greyhound Pets of America to find one in your area.

And, here’s my wife’s post on the same event with another picture of Phoebe.

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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.

Weekend Hound Blogging: Ever Vigilant

August 13, 2006 • • 2 Comments

Phoebe 

Phoebe takes a break to throw us a smile from her bird feeder guard station on the porch.

She hasn’t caught anything yet, but someday I expect her to come in acting normal. She’ll wag her tail and hop up on the couch. A few minutes later she’ll burp a bunch of feathers and pretend nothing is out of the ordinary.

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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.

Weekend Hound Blogging: Pups in Peril

July 9, 2006 • • Leave a comment

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.

Phoebe

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.

Daphne and Phoebe

And as if all that wasn’t enough, they even got baths.

[saveagrey]

Weekend Hound Blogging: Hounds in Hats

July 1, 2006 • • 4 Comments

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.

Daphne

Phoebe

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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.

Weekend Hound & Cat Blogging: Reunions

June 25, 2006 • • Leave a comment

Morrison and the Dogs

While we were on vacation, Morrison and Phoebe stayed at a “resort.” Morrison enjoyed a large room in the cat suite, and Phoebe lived it up with the other dogs. Daphne stayed with my sister’s family as she has ever since we tried to board her back in 2003.

On that occasion, Daphne hid and panted and shivered so badly that the staff upgraded her and our other dog (Zephyr) to a deluxe suite, which looked like a small apartment and cost $70/day. They were kind enough not to charge us the difference, but they also said that Daphne is unboardable.

From then on, Daphne and Zephyr would stay with my sister, but since Phoebe is still in her terrible twos, we thought it best to board her. She seemed to like the experience, but we wondered how they would react when they saw each other again after a week.

Neither dog was especially excited to see us (we had, after all abandoned them) but they were thrilled to see one another. They threw aside their usual greyhound stoicism and jumped around, spinning, dancing, popping wheelies, and dropping into play-bow position. Phoebe even executed a few ollies off the couch.

Morrison, an old hand at being boarded and coming home, was more concerned that his cat box was where he left it, but I think he was happy in his own mellow feline way to once again see his stooges goons friends.

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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.

Weekend Hound Blogging: Vacations

June 11, 2006 • • 2 Comments

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.

Lonely Daphne

Or maybe she’s just glad to have the bed and couches to herself for a little while.

And where are the apes going?

Lake Tahoe - Emerald Bay
(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.

Weekend Hound Blogging: Rumbly Tummy

June 4, 2006 • • Leave a comment

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and your hot water heater is leaking or perhaps, it’s a sink overflowing. Maybe there are pipes in the walls making odd noises because something got flushed that shouldn’t have. Or perhaps one of your greyhounds has a case of rumbly tummy.

Phoebe 

This isn’t Phoebe’s first case of the internal growls, but we think we’ve isolated the cause: canned K/D. Daphne has to eat K/D (that’s kidney diet, by the way) and Phoebe eats it as well. Usually they get kibble, and I mix vegetables in with it. Occasionally I get some canned K/D, which they enjoy, but now, finally, putting two and two together (or is that K and D) we realize that the rumbling noises are probably caused by the K/D, so back to veggies.

Today, though, they enjoyed that upset canine tummy treat: yogurt. After a couple small dishes of yoghurt over the course of the day, all hounds, I’m happy to report, are sleeping well and trying to figure out what they can eat to bring back the rumbles and thus the delicious yogurt.

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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.

Weekend Hound Blogging: FREAKOUT!

May 29, 2006 • • Leave a comment

Daphne freaks out

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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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.

Weekend Hound Blogging: Greyhound Torture

May 14, 2006 • • 7 Comments

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.

The bathroom

Greyhound Phoebe wouldn’t talk, but you can see the poison on her coat.

Phoebe in the bath

Finally, Greyhound Daphne was put to the water torture, but she also refused to betray her loyalties. “Do your worst,” she said.

Daphne in the bath

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.

Phoebe and Daphne Outside

Finally, Daphne led the retreat back to the couch…

Daphne heads home

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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.