Entries Categorized as 'dogs'

Swimming season arrives

Date May 28, 2007

The weather here has been perfect for the last week or two, in the mid-80s every day. Scott and Sue finished opening their pool, and as usual they’ve generously let us “test the waters” for the season by bringing the dogs over. Sheba and Max both love swimming, and had a blast. We only ended [...]

Fostering dogs again

Date May 10, 2007

With life getting somewhat back to normal post-chemo, we started fostering for Labrador Retriever Rescue again… something we’ve done for years, but took a break from during the six months of chemo. Hunter (pictured below) joined our household almost three weeks ago. He’s a very sweet dog, and I don’t expect we’ll have too much [...]

Winston

Date April 5, 2003

Winston ended up being quite a unique foster dog for us. Not only did we get him twice, but he almost ended up becoming part of our pack. Winston was part of a military family who also owned an older Dalmatian mix and when they had to pack up and move, they had no room [...]

Gabby

Date May 18, 2002

When Gabby came home with us, we fell for her right away! She’s a really adorable dog, with lots of cute “puppy” traits. She’s probably around 18 months old. Probably the first thing we noticed about her was that she was very mouthy. She’d nibble your hands, ears, anything she could reach, to show affection. [...]

Sophie

Date April 14, 2002

We got Sophie soon after she came into the LRR system. The director actually only had Sophie for a few days to check temperament and get her fixed and tatooed/microchipped. Sophie was a stray taken in by the shelter. She already had some basic obedience and knew sit, and down. She was only about 50 [...]