If you are a regular visitor the site, then you know I mostly talk about my hounds…and occasionally blather on about my latest fitness or diet goals. Well, here’s another one. In my list of other sites I link to, you’ll see Mark’s Daily Apple – a great site that I’ve used...
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Despite my best intentions last year to do a LOT of lure coursing, I really didn’t make it out to very many field trials. At the last minute, I decided to load up the van on Saturday and head to Atlanta so the dogs could chase some plastic. Echo, Lucas and the puppy Dash...
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Snow fell on South Carolina last night and the hounds were loving it this morning! Two inches of light, fluffy snow fell over the course of the night, ending some time around 2am. And the great thing about living in South Carolina is that most of the snow was melted by the end of...
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I shot this picture upstairs when I found puppy Dash sleeping next to her idol and mentor Bindi, while Bindi rests her head on her packmate and former racing kennelmate Peanut (click to see full size version). Peanut and Bindi raced in Birmingham together, traveled together to race at Gulf Greyhound for a bit...
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Peanut has been retired for, oh, I guess coming up on a year now. And in that year you’d think I’d have figured her out…but there are just some greyhounds who defy classification. For the most part, she’s fairly timid and reserved. However, when she decides to commit to doing to something, she’s balls...
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We took the bandage off Melody’s foot about 48 hours after her surgery to amputate a front, outer (pinky) toe. We were already prepared for what it would look like since another one of our hounds, Bucky, came to us with the same toe missing….but, it was still a little bit of a shock!...
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We’re a couple days out from Echo’s minor surgery to repair an ear tip that Peanut bit off. She’s weaned off the tramadol now and was pretty much back to her usual, upbeat self within 24 hours. The vet did a fantastic job cleaning the ear up and I don’t anticipate any issues with...
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While Echo’s ear amputation was most definitely not planned, this surgery actually was. Melody suffered a pretty bad toe injury while running in the ASFA International Invitational in the summer of 2007 where she pretty much destroyed every ligament in her front left “pinky” toe and severely dislocated the toe next to it as...
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A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about a movie everyone needs to watch called Food, Inc. I’m sure you all scrambled to add it to your NetFlix queue. If you haven’t seen it yet, you really, really need to take the hour or so and educate your brain on the world of...
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I was working out this morning and, as usual, brought some hounds with me so they could work over some raw bones. I finished working out, picked up the bones and was getting ready to head back up to the house when Peanut decided to take one more look around one of the crates...
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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