For about a week and a half I would randomly hear a dog in the house yelp. It never happened in front of me and by the time I’d get downstairs or upstairs, the sound (or my movement) had roused enough dogs that I couldn’t ever tell who it was that originated the yelp....
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My new agility equipment arrived last week, as I finally got around to ordering a teeter base. I still have to acquire a board from Home Depot to finish setting it up and since that requires 1) a trip to a store I don’t normally go to and 2) two colors of paint to...
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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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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