2009 was a roller coaster year for Ken and I, with tears of joy and of sorrow…often in the very same week. Our greyhound family grew by leaps and bounds, in a year where we’d not planned to adopt only one new hound. You know what they say about the best laid plans. ...
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Our very own Sin Bin Annie hit the track on Dec 21st for her first schooling race. And school was hard that day. You can read all the racing lines and reports on Southland Greyhound Park’s web site, but I’ve pulled out Annie’s schooling race for you to look at here. You’ll...
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Goals are good. Right? Hehehe…Of COURSE goals are good! You have to know what you want in order to attain it. I started 2009 with one goal: end the year weighing less than I started. And so far I’ve been successful. But, looking back I realize that I fell short of what I could...
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From our greyt family to yours,
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Healthy, Happy New Year!
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While diabetes isn’t common in greyhounds, it can occur and Quilty is our resident diabetic. Getting her diabetes under control was fairly simple, involving several days spent at the vet over a few weeks while they monitored her blood sugar levels in response to slowly increased insulin dosages. We finally had her stable at...
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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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My poor Hanna. First she went blind from Progressive Retinal Atrophy (PRA) at the tender age of six. Now, at eight years old, she’s been diagnosed with an immature cataract. PRA makes the eyes highly reflective, so it was quite obvious when one eye suddenly become cloudy looking and different than the other. A...
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Weeeeeell….I did my first official Chalean Extreme workout today. In full disclosure, I have gone through every one of the first workouts at least twice just so I could familiarize myself with proper form and technique…even the cardio. I’m not the most coordinated person so jumping and flailing moving arms at the same time...
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The pups were due to head to Southland at the end of November, but were held back a couple weeks because they had a bit of a cough. Not only do you not want pups to travel if they are under the weather (travel stress can make things worse), but obviously you don’t want...
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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