Just in time for the holiday season, we have a new visitor in the house. Mr. Deeds is enjoying his stay and growing more and more loving each and every day.
You can check him out on his blog:
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Woodstock Meet & Greet - August 09 2009
Today was a wonderful day for meeting and greeting at the Woodstock Meet & Greet.
We had 8 hounds today!!
We met lots of great people and told everyone about the Athletes Helping Athletes - 2nd annual 5k run (www.active.com Event ID 1723220).
We had 8 hounds today!!
- Heidi and Boo brought Mary and Barry
- Roz and Jessee brought Jeanna
- Kane, Dewey, Rusty, and Star brought Van and Susan
We met lots of great people and told everyone about the Athletes Helping Athletes - 2nd annual 5k run (www.active.com Event ID 1723220).
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Marietta Wine Market - Dog Day Afternoon
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1st (2:00- 4:00pm) Wine Tasting at the Marietta Wine Market. “Dog Day Afternoon”
Since the boys will be making an appearance, they have been reading up on the Kendall Jackson line of Dog House Wines which will be served. Dewey thinks that the Merlot is the way to go. Kane thinks that if you are going to pay, it should be for the Chardonnay.
Each time a bottle of this wine is purchased nationwide, fifty cents of the purchase price goes toward a fund to provide e seeing eye dogs for the blind, so they think that Van and I should stock up while we are there.
They hope to see you there!
Since the boys will be making an appearance, they have been reading up on the Kendall Jackson line of Dog House Wines which will be served. Dewey thinks that the Merlot is the way to go. Kane thinks that if you are going to pay, it should be for the Chardonnay.
Each time a bottle of this wine is purchased nationwide, fifty cents of the purchase price goes toward a fund to provide e seeing eye dogs for the blind, so they think that Van and I should stock up while we are there.
They hope to see you there!
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Aim High is foster #9!!! Very sweet boy. Dewey took him under his wing.http://mhaimhigh.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
DARING LEFTY
DARING LEFTY - FOSTER BOY....
Are you daring enough to check out this sweet boy?
Saturday, January 3, 2009
She's Notorious
Our current foster is Notorious Vizio.
She is a very petite, sweet, brindle girl who loves people.
Tori has adapted very well and is currently looking for the right family to make happy.
Let's not forget the Hound Hauls
We also hauled the following Hounds:
RJ's Guppy
AY's Steelewave
Milo Adrian
M's Treatmeright
Bolo Gulfstream
PVR Ginger
BBR Pick N Roll
RJ's Guppy
AY's Steelewave
Milo Adrian
M's Treatmeright
Bolo Gulfstream
PVR Ginger
BBR Pick N Roll
Who's the softest? Who's the Tallest? Where's Coyote?
Our first male foster is the softest, tallest boy I have ever met.He looks so much like Dewey that we were always confusing them. Finally our friend suggested that he is "Out of Focus Dewey" and it works.
http://www.wherescoyote.blogspot.com/
Coty is a very lucky boy who now has a wonderful mom, many cat friends, and a non-grey smiling, waving sister, Susie. Susie is wonderful and is our official waver at the Woodstock Meet & Greet.
Wishing upon a star...
Wishing upon a star could not have been more successful for our next little girl: RCK Little Star.
Star is such a sweet girl. It is hard to determine who is luckier Star - or her family!
www.rcklittlestar.blogspot.com
Star is such a sweet girl. It is hard to determine who is luckier Star - or her family!
Star has these wonderful funny ears. We were fortunate enough to attend Greyfest 2008 with her family where she won "Best Ears" hands down
Blogs are Born
By the time Sil came to stay with us, they had installed Blogs for the hounds. Sil was our first experience with Blogging. http://www.spssilhouette.blogspot.com
Maria, her adopted mom, now runs the Blogs for the SEGA hounds! (Thanks Maria!)
The story goes Sil ate a June Bug and that is how she got her name "June" from her dad. She is quite the sleek girl now.
June's foster brother Canoe is a beaut as well. She has two people siblings and you can follow them all at her mom's blog.
You bet she is a sweet hound
January 2008...
UBet Mississippi was our next Foster hound.
Just like this year, they had a big haul at the beginning of the New Year and "Missy" was in that haul.
Tollie and Mickey adopted Missy on Kane's Gotcha Day: January 20th
Micky got a Harley and Tollie got Missy.
When we saw them at Greyfest, it was more like Missy got a Mickey and a Tollie!
She is a happy girl.
Maybe some day we will be ready to take on another foster
"...maybe some day we will be ready to take on another foster."
These were the final words of the Brindle Boy story. Did I really think that would happen? Honestly, I am not sure I did. Our house was not really cut out for the Foster Front. But somehow, it did not make sense to not foster.
So in December of 2007, we took in our first "true" foster.
ZM's Crazy Z is a beautiful, petite brindle and white hound.
She was our Christmas Foster and we did not have her for long.
Jonathan and Soileil adopted her right before Christmas and due to travel arranged to pick her up after Christmas.
They loved her so much that they came to get her early!
She is doing very well.
"Zee" was back in the early days of our Foster Career: Pre-Blogs.
These were the final words of the Brindle Boy story. Did I really think that would happen? Honestly, I am not sure I did. Our house was not really cut out for the Foster Front. But somehow, it did not make sense to not foster.
So in December of 2007, we took in our first "true" foster.
ZM's Crazy Z is a beautiful, petite brindle and white hound.
She was our Christmas Foster and we did not have her for long.
Jonathan and Soileil adopted her right before Christmas and due to travel arranged to pick her up after Christmas.
They loved her so much that they came to get her early!
She is doing very well.
"Zee" was back in the early days of our Foster Career: Pre-Blogs.
The Story of our "Brindle Boys"
Originally posted Sun Aug 26, 2007 on SoutheasternGreyhounds (SEGA) Yahoo Group
Hearing the tales of the Birmingham Boys makes me want to share the long over-due story of our "Brindle Boys" and Suzanne Lipson shares a role in this story as well!
In January (2007) my husband Van and I adopted the "Best Greyhound in the World" Task Kane (NKA "Kane"). Everyone who owns a grey says that their dog is the best, but we really think that Kane fits the bill. He is a beautiful big red brindle who has wonderful doe eyes. He is such a calm, friendly leaner that he does not know any strangers. In fact, it was his eyes in his adoption photo on the SEGA website that first drew us to Kane.
Kane was with us and his many feline siblings already in residence for several months when we realized that he might need some interaction with some peers. He had started to engage the cats in play! Though tempted, the cats decided that it was against their better judgment.
Then Van saw a familiar sight on the website - another beautiful brindle with soulful eyes. This time it was a darker brindle: Doing the Dew.
But we talked it over and we were not sure that two dogs would work for our house which is smaller, has no fence, and has enough heart beats already.
One day we decided to see if we could take Kane to Lake City to use the dog run with the greys in the kennel. Suzanne was awesome enough to meet us there to let Kane stretch his legs with some friends his own size.
During Kane's stretch we talked with Suzanne about the foster program and mentioned that we were interested in Doing the Dew, but that we had concerns about our ability to manage two dogs in our current home.
After the conversation we were convinced that it was worth it to apply for the foster program and that we would be helping even if it was temporary. Suzanne did mention that we should be prepared for the "failed foster" scenario which she had experienced herself. (I can image that she was referring to Cooper, her Birmingham Boy :)
When we were contacted by Bill Nakos and told that Doing the Dew would be our "assignment" for foster, we were very excited and nervous. He was a bounce twice-over in his short time off the track, so we were very realistic that he would need a lot of work. Jennifer Bachelor had fostered him since he bounced and done a lot of training with him. We were cautious with him and careful to give him support in his transition.
Dewey is more high-strung than Kane and it is interesting to see their different personalities develop. Kane was so easy to integrate into our home and Dewey took more work. We had, after all, gotten the best greyhound ever right out of the gate.
Dewey, however, has blossomed into a wonderful gentleman. He loves to give kisses and play with his toys. His absolute favorite toy is his screaming monkey that we got from SEGA. He likes it so much that we have to restrict his access to it, lest we hear it go off in the wee hours of the morning.
Dewey is great with people, our cats, and gets more lovable each day. Van says that if there was a game at the Greyfest that involved greyhound flatulence Dewey would win paws down. When we work in our office we always hear the sound of a "poof" come from the direction of Dewey at least 5 times in the course of the evening. I think he probably used his gas on the track to either give him the extra boost over the finish line or to stun the other racers, like letting out an oil slick. We have learned to cope.
In spite of their differences, Dewey and Kane share a sweetness because they are both leaners. It is quite common to be caught in across-fold of leaning brindle heads as you stand with them.
As time marched on it became more and more clear that Dewey was meant to be ours. Early in July he adopted us, so we filled out the paperwork.
When Suzanne saw our adoption application for Dewey, she wrote us a message that includes this passage that still brings tears to my eyes: "Thank you for giving him the opportunity to be himself and beloved for himself. I knew your house would be big enough because your hearts were."
We are happy to report that Task Kane (NKA "Kane") and Doing the Dew (NKA "Dewey") have settled well into their forever home. Kane and Dewey are now our "Brindle Boys" and they bring us so much happiness.
Thank you Suzanne, Bill, and everyone at SEGA for bringing them to us.
And maybe some day we will be ready to take on another foster!
Regards,
The Plan
This is a blog about the two Brindle Boys.
Task Kane and
Doing the Dew.Here is the plan...
Since I have not been posting along the way, I thought that it would be best to go ahead and grab a message about the Brindle Boys from the SoutheasternGreyhounds (SEGA) Yahoo Group message board as a starting point for the blog.
Then I will give a post for each of the foster dogs that we have fostered (other than Dewey ;) and consider myself caught up!
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