This foster has been in the works for a couple weeks now. Ken received a call from a Greyt Expectations Greyhound Rescue in the DC area about a dog that needed a second chance. To make a long story short: kids allowed to pop balloons near a nervous dog and a nasty divorce are...
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“The weight that lays on your shoulders
Could be the wings that carry you home” ….Live lyrics
I always thought of adoption as a sanctuary. A voice for those who can not speak for themselves. The ultimate protectors of hounds that are otherwise unwanted or in need. So when I look around our home and I...
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Ken and I don’t host fosters very often. I often joke that we are the worst possible foster home – we have lots of dogs and we work from home, so we’re here pretty much 24/7. We’re really nothing like your average pet home a dog would go into. But, sometimes we...
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Ken took the pup with him when he went to pick Quilty up at the vet (having her glucose monitored all day). Scanned and no microchip (big surprise). He stopped by the humane society on the way home to have them scan the pup “just in case” our vet missed it and to talk...
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Yesterday we saw a smaller-ish fluffy black dog hanging out around our property…he finally came over to our fence around 3-4 pm. He seemed friendly, had a collar, no tag. We live in the country so not ultra unusual to see roaming dogs. The farm down the road sometimes gets new farm dogs and...
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When Ken and I first moved to SC, I operated our kennel building as a boarding facility. We inherited a lot of customers from the previous owner, one of which was a chocolate lab named Casey. I always looked forward to boarding Casey…an easy dog who got along with everyone. Easy going and had a...
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Last week Ken and I were asked if we could help out with another oops litter. There were four 6-week old greyhound pups, one of whom was born with a leg defect. Of course we aren’t an adoption group, but we are a way-station for greyhounds who can’t stay where they are, but don’t yet have...
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Soooooooooo....Dot and Ghost left for their forever home in TN last Friday (they're doing GREAT and have acclimated to their new home and new pack of 6 greys - without missing a beat :) ). And today I dropped the rest of the pups off at the adoption group that agreed to pet out...
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So, it’s my last week to spend with Hoochie and her brood. So, I’ve taken loads of pictures to share with you. At 9 weeks old, the pups are an energetic and curious lot! Gone are the days that 30-45 minute play sessions had them zonked for hours. In fact, even after two hours of...
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For the uninitiatied, GUR stands for Greyhound Underground Railroad. It refers to a series of drivers who volunteer to drive legs of a trip to get hounds from point A to point B. Usually it’s from an adoption group to a new home hundreds of miles away. Since we live right off a major...
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog.
You are his life, his love, his leader.
He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.
You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson