Comments on: D is for Dog

By: shrinkrapped

shrinkrapped — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 23:09:24 +0000

In reply to dyannedillon. A gone greyhound might be my idea of a good time, but probably not my daughter's!

By: dyannedillon

dyannedillon — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 13:44:51 +0000

I have a blog friend who raises puppies for GDB! My Emma wants to do that, but we’re too far away (closest one is in Dallas, a 5 hour drive). She researched and found a place in Kansas that trains service dogs and is once again begging for a puppy in training. Not sure yet….
Greyhounds are supposed to be great, according to my cousin who had one, but all they know how to do is run, so if they’re aren’t secured by a fence or a leash, they are GONE.

By: shrinkrapped

shrinkrapped — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 02:22:54 +0000

In reply to lundygirl. Oh, no! RIP, GPs.

By: shrinkrapped

shrinkrapped — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 02:11:57 +0000

In reply to lundygirl. Oh no! RIP, GPs.

By: lundygirl

lundygirl — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:22:16 +0000

In reply to dyannedillon. Our guinea pigs ended up as a foxes dinner. Not good, especially for the GP's.

By: shrinkrapped

shrinkrapped — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 02:46:25 +0000

In reply to dyannedillon.

“I told him that wasn’t a pet; it was livestock.” SO Funny! My Emma, now that she has boomeranged back, keeps trying to convince me that we should get a Greyhound. “When you move into your own place, feel free to get all the pets you want!” I hint broadly. My other daughter fostered a kitten once–that was fun. And close to us is a Guide Dogs for the Blind, famous for having a long waiting list for families taking on puppies for training. Talk about major crying when it’s time to give them up after a year or so! (Wisely, we never went that route.)

By: shrinkrapped

shrinkrapped — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 02:42:04 +0000

In reply to dyannedillon. Oh, yes, those hamsters in the freezer . . . Ours were always in Chinese takeout containers.

By: dyannedillon

dyannedillon — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 15:17:25 +0000

In reply to lundygirl. We went through several hamsters (those little bitty ones really are not very hardy) and still have two of them in the freezer, where they await interment. They've only been there about 5 years.... We also had guinea pigs, but I was the only one who paid attention to them, and finally found them a new home with young kids who would play with them. End of the rodent line for us!

By: dyannedillon

dyannedillon — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 15:14:23 +0000

We are cat people, too. My husband THOUGHT he was a dog person, because he had an outside dog growing up (I told him that wasn’t a pet; it was livestock), but I turned him into a cat person. We have three cats right now (two big lugs and a 1 year old precious princess, but I’m not partial at all…). Last summer, my daughter BEGGED me to let us foster puppies for the local humane society (by the way, her name is Emma, and I see some glaring similarities with YOUR Emma), and PROMISED to do all the poop scooping, etc. I caved. We brought home two Great Pyrenees/Lab mixes for a month. They were 8 weeks old and adorable. And they pooped and peed on my floors in spite of my best efforts to house train them, chewed the coffee table legs, brick around the fireplace, our toes, flip flops, and anything else that they shouldn’t, were sick and had to be nursed back to health, and I miss them to this day! Just last week, I re-read the posts I wrote last August about them, and a photo montage I put together made me cry! Miss the little poopers! (And my daughter scooped up poop from the yard exactly ONCE.)

By: lundygirl

lundygirl — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:54:47 +0000

In reply to shrinkrapped. I agree with you - they would get along very well :)