It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since Ken and I agreed to bring home a pregnant racer who’d come off the hauler from the farm in an obviously pregnant condition. It was an incredible honor to be entrusted with a shy and scared Momma dog and her precious cargo. A lot...
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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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Last week while Ken was getting the Buddha tattoo, I flipped through the book of a visiting artist and was totally blown away by the work I saw. In fact, the work was so incredibly detailed and realistic it was hard to believe I was looking at tattoos. That artist was Cesar Morales of...
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The ASFA I.I. is the premiere lure coursing event for the organization, drawing hundreds of sighthounds from all over the country in attempt to find the best of the best. In order to qualify for the event, a dog must have earned 20 points from previous competitions. I’ve taken Echo to two previous I.I.s...
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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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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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After getting my greyhound tattoo last week, I felt I needed something to balance it out. Something with a little color. There was no doubt what I wanted: a lotus. In Buddhism, the lotus is one of the eight auspicious symbols and represents many teachings:
The roots of a lotus are in the mud, the...
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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