The long, gorgeous neck of a greyhound just begs to be adorned with beautiful collars. I spent years nurturing a collar fetish – not just special holiday collars. I had collars in every color and every design. From fancy to every day. I combed eBay *daily* looking for the next new collar. Eventually, my...
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Ken’s first exposure to greyhounds was going to the Thursday night races at Gulf Greyhound Park with his friends. It wasn’t until later that he adopted his first retired racer. My first exposure to greyhounds was on the internet when I was researching a breed for my first pet. It wasn’t until after I’d...
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Harmony skipped two meals in the last two days and sloooooowly ate her breakfast this morning. She's also seemed a little off and being lazy. With the rain and bad weather, we almost thought it might just be a little thing she was going thing she was going through, but this morning her gums...
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Hello! Welcome to my first blog post. Er…the first blog post in my third or fourth rendition of my blog. I’m not sure anyone, other than my mom, is interested in my daily life or thoughts on the world in general….but I figured I’d give this a whirl anyway.
Heck, it may even be therapeutic....
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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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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