Showing posts with label foster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foster. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

3's a Crowd...

That's what Limo thinks anyways. We have greyhound company this week, remember our 3rd foster Kadabra nka "Abby"? NutSo's twin. We are "sitting" her while her family is away for Thanksgiving festivities...They are the sweetest family... One of their daughters got us these ornaments...Aren't they cute!- Thank you Savanah!
How did it become Thanksgiving?

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Am I failing?

Peanut will be our 4th foster dog, so at least we wouldn't be failed fosterers if we keep her -would that make our grade a "C" or "B-"?
Ms. Peanut seems to fit in pretty well. She still cries alot like a big baby and follows us incessantly around the house, but maybe that's what makes a good "farm dog".
She and Limo play rough and hard and Limo wouldn't want it any other way. They play chase, tug-o-war, keep away, face fight, roll on top of each other etc.

Peanut will plop down ANYWHERE and LOVES to be hosed off which are both good traits for a farm dog... she enjoys getting into the lake as well. It can be nice to have a dog that is self sufficient in the cooling off department.














I wouldn't feel too guilty keeping her, I mean she has some funny quarks, still cries alot and let's face it, she ain't the prettiest gal on the block:-) She has a tear on her ear, scars on each shoulder and some broken teeth. And thanks to Limo she may have a scared nose :-x But she is cute and soft and compact.

She's 5 years old and her face is already graying. She's not cat safe and I don't think she ever will be.

As a foster mom I'm usually better at updating the foster's blog, and this time I've just been blogging about her here;-)

Thursday, July 31, 2008

So, was anyone watching during the big fight?

We forgot to plug in Limo Cam this AM, but I went home for lunch and plug'd in around noon...let the dogs out, they had a fun time in the yard, came back in got a drink and went to the restroom... then all hell broke lose. I'm "sitting there" and all of a sudden I hear all this snarling and crying so I start screaming at the top of my lungs and run out to the living room to confront the fury...pants undone. I grab Peanut's collar and push, kick or pull Limo away as well. I have blood all over my arm. My first thought is that Pnut just attacked poor Limo, but that was short lived, I quickly realize that Pnut is the only one with injury. Thank gawd it's just some scratches and a couple of holes on her nose, nothing too serious:-( So did anyone see what happened and who started it? My guess is that Limo was sniffing around Pnut's crate for any leftovers and when Pnut came to see what she was doing Limo attacked her:-(

and to think they were playing so crazy cute just a few minutes before...their playing reminds me of how Spooky used to play with Limo, Rough n' Tumble :-) Limo has met her match as fair as play instigators go. I laughed when Limo was walking out of the kitchen last night and Pnut was nipp'n at her legs- something Limo does to everyone....
Limo wanted to show off her heart again, this time right side up...

Monday, July 28, 2008

Mistaken Identity...

We picked up a 5 yo greyhound named Go Peanut Go on Saturday to foster. We thought we were picking up a 3 yo named Wiki Onetime, but there was a mixup with paper work on 2 brindle females.
No worries, no credit cards were involved and both dogs are still in good credit standing. I'm still a bit confused on how the mix up happened, all I know is we got the big cry baby one :-p Seriously, Matt slept in the spare bedroom with a pillow over his head and I slept with protective ear muffs one would wear at a shooting range! There might be hope yet though. I took this first webcam shot about 8:30am, she was up and down, hollering, crying and panting... if you look closely you can see poor little Limo on the bed behind the cage (rolling her eyes).
Now if you were watching the cam about noonish Georgia time then you probably saw me standing in front of the camera- hopefully I didn't do anything "just wrong"- I was on the phone with my sis and forgot I was in a room with a camera! :-o Any way I let both dogs out separately and Peanut seemed pretty happy. She came back in and threw the stuffy toy all over the room. I left both girls with a stuffed kong toy and these were the pics I captured off the webcam later this afternoon...

Peanut is a fatty, we need to get some weight off her as you can see. (That's Kadabra behind her!)
It's kinda hard to believe looking at her now that she ran 108 races and won 38 of them :-o