12.17.2010
Holiday Lights
I've posted about this before, but since everyone loves xmas lights...What else can you say. The Welsh are cool. So are their sheep. And LED lights are cool to the touch - the sheep won't get burnt [we left LED lights plugged in on our live xmas tree last year & they stayed cool for hours & days on end].
12.16.2010
Thank you and welcome...
Thank you to everyone who sent me and Evie notes from reading all about her over on Jen's blog! England seems like it was a million years ago. It's hard to believe Evie is 10yrs old now - and her trip will have been 6yrs ago this coming February.
I firmly believe that every greyhound [or any dog for that matter] has a talent. Evie was certainly great at coursing - she also did well in lure coursing [ASFA] - and participated in amateur oval [NOTRA] and straight racing [LGRA]. There were better greyhounds from the US that could've gone to England [namely her 1/2 sister Cherry] - I was just lucky because Evie was NGA registered! [AKC registered GH can't run there.]
There are plenty of GH that are fabulous in other sports as well. My dog Oliver was a wiz at NOTRA & LGRA - sadly he died too young. Jen's dogs do aces at obedience & agility. My first GH, my love, Newell, was a track dog through & through - his passion was the mechanical lure - and he was good at it! I view the dogs like kids - some are good at football, some baseball, some drama, some dance. Some kids like to stay home and read books all day.
Try a sport or activity with your GH - even if it's taking hikes in your local parks/wilderness areas. Your GH was an athlete and they enjoy exercise & being outside & being competitive on some level! Evie, sadly, is retired now. She squeaks and aches when she plays in the yard too hard with new brother Flash. Too much arthritis in her hands & feet from all the years of hard core running. But, the true competitor she is - I also know she'd give me 120% if I asked her to run again. So our adventures now are limited to local hikes and walks - and the hard running is only in her dreams.
And on that note...welcome to Gracie [Pat C Dark Moon]. She arrived in Las Vegas when we were there this past weekend. She's home now - and what a handful! A few issues we have to work on - namely counter-surfing - but she's going to give Flash a run for his money! She's about a 1/2 inch taller than Evie, but just as slight as Evie was in her prime!
She wiggles quite a bit so it's been hard to get a semi-decent photo of her!
I firmly believe that every greyhound [or any dog for that matter] has a talent. Evie was certainly great at coursing - she also did well in lure coursing [ASFA] - and participated in amateur oval [NOTRA] and straight racing [LGRA]. There were better greyhounds from the US that could've gone to England [namely her 1/2 sister Cherry] - I was just lucky because Evie was NGA registered! [AKC registered GH can't run there.]
There are plenty of GH that are fabulous in other sports as well. My dog Oliver was a wiz at NOTRA & LGRA - sadly he died too young. Jen's dogs do aces at obedience & agility. My first GH, my love, Newell, was a track dog through & through - his passion was the mechanical lure - and he was good at it! I view the dogs like kids - some are good at football, some baseball, some drama, some dance. Some kids like to stay home and read books all day.
Try a sport or activity with your GH - even if it's taking hikes in your local parks/wilderness areas. Your GH was an athlete and they enjoy exercise & being outside & being competitive on some level! Evie, sadly, is retired now. She squeaks and aches when she plays in the yard too hard with new brother Flash. Too much arthritis in her hands & feet from all the years of hard core running. But, the true competitor she is - I also know she'd give me 120% if I asked her to run again. So our adventures now are limited to local hikes and walks - and the hard running is only in her dreams.
And on that note...welcome to Gracie [Pat C Dark Moon]. She arrived in Las Vegas when we were there this past weekend. She's home now - and what a handful! A few issues we have to work on - namely counter-surfing - but she's going to give Flash a run for his money! She's about a 1/2 inch taller than Evie, but just as slight as Evie was in her prime!
She wiggles quite a bit so it's been hard to get a semi-decent photo of her!
12.06.2010
Waiting for Santa [and other things]...
Here we are waiting to have our picture taken with Santa. Flash is on the reindeer substitution list if someone gets sick. Let's be honest - greyhounds would get the job done *much* faster than reindeer.
Gracie arrives one week from today. Whheeeee! I think. We're afraid she'll be a little whirling dervish. She weighs in at 59.6lbs as of the day she was spayed. About 5lbs bigger than Evie.
And... to get a bit of background about Evie and fun sports, take a look over at Never Say Never Greyhounds - or click the link on the right. Jennifer is re-posting the article about Evie that appeared in the Spring 2005 CG Magazine.
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