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Willow, representing Greylandia in the Greyhound winter Olympics, extends her lead in the 500 relay, while cheered on by Marvin of the hunting team who had already successfully finished his event.

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MOST WELCOME ADDITIONS

After the unexpected and devastating loss of their beloved Bailey on Monday (thank you for the comments on the blog post, it was difficult for her to read, but they helped immensely), my sister said her house was simply not the same; the energy was different and it was much too quiet. It was eerily silent, like a haunted house and the family were zombies roaming the halls. For such a small dog, Bailey, had a monstrously large personality.

Beth's older dogs stopped doing much and everyone was depressed. Beth has spent much of this week in tears. Her house is always a mass of commotion; people coming and going, dogs playing. She decided the quiet was just too much and there needed to be puppy energy in the house again. So we went to the Humane Society yesterday to see if they had any dogs she might fall in love with.

They did.

Turned in just the day before, a litter of 8 shar pei/lab 12 week old puppies. It was love at first wobble-to-you-and-crawl-in-your-lap sight.

Meet the newest members of the house:

Ava

and Roo.

They were a little worn out by all the excitement and fell asleep in my niece's lap mid-way through the adoption proceedings.

They will go to their new home this afternoon after their spay surgery. The Humane Society worker had to pry them out of arms wrapped around wrinkly soft fur so the pair could go back to the cage for the evening.

My niece, Alex, and Roo

Think they are going to be spoiled much?

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"Places to go, greyhounds to see."

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A little fun to the blog after the last emotion filled post. Dru and Willow, both a few fries short of a happy meal.

BAILEY

Yesterday was a sad day in the Morrison/Carrillo households when my sister had to have her 4 year old dog, Bailey, put to sleep. It was completely unexpected. Bailey loved to eat things she shouldn't, even with the constant vigilance of my sister's family, she still managed to sneak things every once in a while. Saturday night, she began vomiting. Beth took her to the vet for a 9:30 appointment Monday morning. By 11:00 she was gone. She had an intestinal blockage that would have been difficult to remove. The vet felt that even if he did go in surgically, on the slim chance they could remove it successfully, the intestines had suffered damage and the chances of her healing were slim to none. They made the most difficult decision and had their young, loving, vivacious, playful girl put to sleep. Bailey had, last week, graduated from her 8 week training course and was to begin rally courses. This is Beth and Bailey mid-way through the training course. My heart goes out to my sister and her family. We will miss her antics, whole-body tail wags, face licking, trips to Starbucks, and warm-sit-on-your-feet greetings.



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