PHOTO FOR THE DAY

You just know he is looking for a place to bury that squeaks.

PHOTO FOR THE DAY

PHOTO FOR THE DAY

"Ummmm, pardon me. Please remove your tail with the utmost haste."

RED, WHITE AND BLUE

Thank you to all our service men and women, past and present, who have made it possible for me to post silly photos of my greyhound playing with toys, work in the field I want, say what I want, and enjoy all the associated freedoms that I do. A little Cult of the Greyhound red, white, and blue for you today.

OVERWHELMING ADORABLENESS

So this blog has veered way off course over the past few weeks from (mostly) the simple fun photos of greyhounds doing silly things, running, and looking majestic to injury reports and rainbow bridge postings.

Gah. 

So I've decided what is needed is a serious shot of disgusting cuteness. Overwhelming adorableness. Delightful awkwardness. Heart-stopping charm. I'm talking about photos so sweet, they make your teeth hurt. (more so even than the brownie sundae I had today) What type of photos could achieve such incredible results, you ask?

Easy ... puppy photos!

My sister, Beth, has started the puppies in their training classes, puppy classes to be exact, with our good friend Jamie from Seize the Leash. Now Beth has been doing quite a bit of training at home already, but this was the first time they were in a new environment. Ooooo, can we say distractions?!?

Roo is the golden and Ava is black. Roo is a bit more adventurous. Ava likes to hang back and assess the situation. The are inseparable and if one goes off to explore the other will follow within a few seconds. They did great and had quite a bit of fun. But not as much fun as the humans watching their uncoordinated explorings.

GUINESS

Another tough day in the Morrison/Carrillo family. My sister, Beth, who just suffered the unexpected loss of her 4 year old dog Bailey, has had to have her senior dog, Guiness, put to sleep today. Though they knew it was coming, she has been slowing down for the last 6 months, it didn't make it any easier. Guiness was the matriarch of the household. A regal, no-nonsense girl; she kept everyone in line. She was also incredibly cagey around the camera. She was with Beth for over 12 years. Run free Guiness, say "hey" to Bailey for us when you see her over that bridge.

BREEZE UPDATE

Thank you all, for the kind words and support for Breeze. We had an interesting turn of events today. When I took the dressings off this morning to clean the cut and let it air out a bit, I noticed another laceration along her pad. It had been missed the day before. I caught it this morning because the wound had stopped bleeding, the swelling had gone down and it was clean. I waited until my regular vet opened and gave them a call.

"Hi Suzanne, how are you this morning?"
"I'm calling at 8:30 on a Monday, how do you think?"
"Can you be here at 9:45?"

Oh, they know us so well.

I've already invited them all to the the 4th of July family get together, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Dr McMillan said she needed to be stitched up. So, she had a spa day at the vet today: some drug therapy, a little sleep therapy, hair cut, toenail trim. The works. She did quite well, from all reports. I guess, she is getting so used to being in there, she doesn't freak out as much. She even let Dr. McMillan pet her for about 2 minutes as she hariy eye-balled the new vet.

The diagnosis (modified): The cut was down to the bone (not hard to do on a greyhound toe). The webbing was not split down the middle as originally thought. It was actually torn away from the toe, forming a lens-shaped wound along the interior side of the exterior "pinkie" toe. Like when you peel a sticky-back hook off a painted wall and the bit of paint peels away with it, leaving that bald spot. So he had to put in two rows of stitches. So she is doubly grounded for the next 2, possibly 3, weeks from all activity. Right now she is still coming down off the meds, so could care less; but give her a couple of days and she is going to be really annoyed.