For quite some time I’ve been planning to get a memorial tattoo for all my Bridge kids. I’ve kicked around various versions of a winged greyhound…sometimes in a cloud…sometimes running. Lots of ways to do it. Then one day I had an idea. I decided that the next time we lost a hound, I’d...
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When I think of words to describe Rocky, only one comes to mind: love. That dog loved with his whole heart. He loved life. He loved people. He loved other dogs. He loved to eat poop. He loved everything. I am so thankful to have loved and been loved by him. From the time...
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With heavy hearts, we helped our proud old lady to the Bridge yesterday. She has been in declining health in the last couple months, with her diabetes getting harder and harder to control. Though the xrays looked ok, her breathing was getting more labored and her heart sounds were not great. Her spark and...
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When I went to check on Hoochie Mama and the pups at 6am, I found little Aang underneath his mom. Though Ken tried to breathe life back into him, he was gone and there was nothing we could do.
We are heartbroken. It seem so unfair for a little life to be gone so soon.
I...
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I can not believe I am posting this. I left for a weekend of lure coursing in Atlanta on Saturday morning…everyone and everthing was fine until this morning, Ken called me at 8am to say that Bodhi was having difficulty breathing and his gums were pale. His back was a little hunched…my...
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Four years ago I opened a thread on GT that had the most adorable picture of a foster dog.
(photo from Greyhound Crossroads)
Could you have refused that face? We certainly couldn’t! So, a couple weeks later Ken drove from NC to SC on Christmas Eve to bring home two special greyhounds…Erin, a 12 year old...
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Elvis came into our lives 2 years ago. I was forwarded an email from a greyhound friend about two seniors looking for a home because they were retiring from blood donor duties at a vet in Alabama. The group (all breed) placing them was being very particular about where they went. They had never...
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Caesar. He was my husband’s first greyhound…a triple bounce – once because the family was moving, once for aggression and once because he “needs constant companionship.” He was the proverbial Big Black Cat Zapping Male. And we were head over heels in love with him.
Before I ever met him in person, DH warned me...
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Memorial Post written by Ken
Along came a girl who stole and broke my heart. And for all the riches of the world I wouldn’t change any part.
When Erin joined our pack she wasn’t our first foray into seniors, she wasn’t even the oldest member of the pack. Despite coming to us with only one...
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Today, Ken and I knew it was time. Sweet Cas was ready to make that journey to the Bridge. So with sad hearts, we held her and kissed her and loved her as she crossed over…..
Casino started out life much like other greyhounds…getting to chase the bunny around the big oval. When her racing...
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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