Another Average Week For the Kids

Mmm. Turkey burgers. One for me. Another for the kids. The kids get happy when I light up the Big Green Egg.

Stanley math. Found a stick in the yard. Think I’ll take it in, so I can play with it later. Hope it fits in the door. Guess not.

Went to Trina’s for the weekend. It’s always nice when two alphas respect each other. Doesn’t mean they have to snuggle together.

Stanley roaching on the couch. I decided to join him for a little nap.

Daddy, make sure not to get my rump in the picture.
Jaime working on her tan for bikini season. Enjoy the few days of nice weather before it becomes oppressively hot and humid.
Where’s Jaime? We take the dog beds out on the deck so the kids can comfortably join us outside. I brought them back in and stacked them. Jaime didn’t feel it necessary to get out of the way.

As seen in Trina’s last blog entry, Stanley + couch = ETS. He’s even added a little nose drip this time for good measure.

We went to the Monticello Wine Festival this past weekend. The weather on Saturday was beautiful. In the 80’s with a breeze. Wine tasting made us hungry. Some skewered meats and crab cake sandwich washed down with more wine. Kris: I’m pretty sure that’s right! Trina: Woman, are you sure?

Jaime's Gotcha Day & Musical Greyhounds

Today is Jaime’s Gotcha Day. One whole year. Sometimes she still has that look like we’re gonna give her away. We’ve had enough fosters come and go in the past year, so hopefully she understands she’s here for good. We love our sensitive smiling girl.

Jaime was returned from two homes before settling with us. Maybe that’s why we had a rash of returns this week. In the past five days, we’ve played musical greyhounds with three girls who were returned. Amazingly, it looks like two of them have already found new homes, and only one is in foster.
I picked up Nellie on Wed. I would later pick up her sister, Tigress on Saturday. Their mommy is in the National Guard and was called into active service in Iraq. This is not a political blog, so I will just say that this really sucks. I picked up Bella on Friday, and swapped her for Tigress on Saturday.
Nellie sticking her tongue out without opening her mouth.

How does she achieve this feat? That is quite the overbite.
Nellie says, ‘I will eat you and make you part of me’.
Instant chimera. The Jaime-Nellie Siamese greyhound.

After separation surgery, Nellie celebrated by hopping around on one foot.

Bella is a sweet girl. She didn’t get to run around much after arriving at our house. After a few romps in the yard, she managed to rip off a toenail. After cleaning, antiobiotic ointment, wrapping in gauze and vet wrap, topped off with a boot, she really didn’t feel like running around the yard. So her pics are of her resting on the dog bed.



Tigress is sad that she’s been moving around so much lately.

She perked up when she heard we had a Meet ‘n Greet that afternoon. She got to make to lots of new friends.
So I will end this entry the same way as the last one. We are back to just our kids. Bella went to a home visit on Saturday and ended up staying there. Nellie made the rounds at the Meet ‘n Greet, and she caught the hearts of a family that recently adopted two greys. Tigress went to another foster family in the area.

Abigail and Sunny Adopted

I got up at 5am on Saturday to meet the hauler at 6am. We called them the night before, and they were on schedule. At 7:30am, Kris calls to say that they are way behind. I ended up driving down to Ashland to meet them, so they wouldn’t have to stop in Fredericksburg just for me. Another adoption group was picking up 6 greys. Me, just one. Cute little black girl named Gs Chica. She was spunky from the time she got out of the hauler. Tiny little thing. Figure her couch weight will be about 60 lbs. Though, I walked her for about 10 minutes, she thought it better to wait till she got in the car to go poo.
Kris gave her a bath before taking her to her new family, so she smelled of shampoo instead of just poo. Chica is now known as Abigail. Her new mommy and daddy love her so much already, she now has a blog of her own at Greyhound Lass. I got a few pics of her before she left.

Is that really a fake rock? That is so 70’s.

Drying herself after her bath. Run Abigail Run

What a cute tiny little head. Don’t you just wanta kiss it?
Tired of posing for the camera, Abigail gives me the stinkeye. ‘If I’m gonna pose for you like a model, I get paid in treats, mister’

Abigail took one look at the stuffies and decided this is way better than the track life.


We are now back to our regular crew. Abigail got adopted on Saturday. Sunflower, now called Sunny, was adopted on Sunday. She wouldn’t look at the camera because there was a kitty in the street taunting her.

Aubry visits and Babysitting the Pine Kids

        Aubry came back to Virginia for a visit. We threw a little party for her. I smoked a pork shoulder for 17 hrs on the Egg for pulled pork sandwiches. The smoked jalapeno poppers were also yummy. We had a handful of people and dogs. The kids probably thought it was just another playdate. They are always happy to see each other. Can you find all 11 greys, Parker, and Murphy in the picture?
        On a sad note, a few people and their dogs did not make it to the party. Jake and Libbie had gotten loose and were sadly found later the next day. To lose two kids so suddenly.... I know I was a basketcase after losing Lucas. I don’t have any pics of Libbie, but here is a picture of Jake (black with blue collar) with his three sisters and his mother, Ally.
        Kathy was watching a couple of senior sisters who came to the party. I dubbed them the ‘Golden Girls’.
        The Pine Kids came to stay with us for a week. Luke, Sandy, and Jasmine.
        Luke, Jasmine, and Sunflower do their Charlie’s Angel’s pose.
        Is she still following me?
        Licking her lips, Stella says, ‘Come to Momma’.
        Jaime has started to eat one of the oak trees in the yard. Jasmine being a copycat.

St. Pattie's Day Parade

The kids got to go downtown for the Fredericksburg St. Patrick’s Day Parade. They may not always like getting dressed up, but they sure love going out and meeting people who tell them how pretty they are then proceed to give them lots of hugs and kisses. What kinds of hounds are they? Attention hounds!
Kris got the kids all dressed up and ready to strut their stuff. Sunflower is unsure of how to wear her lei. She went from kennel to foster home to parade in a matter of days.

Stanley thought the chicks would really dig the tie. A clip-on just wouldn’t cut it.

Lady looks stunning in her green boa. Critter is wearing his Harley outfit, and is wondering when he gets to take a ride on his dad’s Harley-Davidson.
We got there a bit early to check in and secure our spot in line. Stanley thought that was a bit too long of a wait, and decided to rest his head on Jaime.
A recent adoptee, Whyda, came out for the festivities.

Critter decided it was cooler to be seen with another girl besides his sister. Leah says she digs the leather jacket.
To keep the kids occupied while waiting for the parade to begin, Kris practices her ‘Down’ with Jaime, and ‘Sit’ with Stanley. Yeah, right. Lazy dogs.

Stanley Goes To Sandy Paws

Stanley went with his mommy to Sandy Paws at Jekyll Island, Georgia. He rode with Doreen’s kids: Sidney, Roxie, and Tempest. I got to stay home with the girls and Parker. Following are a few of Doreen’s pics from the event.
Stanley (front) with Tempest and Roxie in the back of Doreen’s minivan. It was a nice 10 hour drive to Jekyll Island. Almost to the Florida border.
Kris walking on the beach with Stanley. Sidney enjoys soaking his paws in the waves. Roxie says, hey, don’t forget about me.

Kris bought a few things there. There were lots of vendors to shop at and seminars to attend. Stanley managed to get a new martingale collar. One of the other VAGA members who went down got more than a collar. Lynda managed to come back with a ‘cowgirl’. This makes girl number 5 for her. Congratulations Ted!
When Stanley got back, he was wiped out.
I was not without a big dumb brindle boy just because Stanley was at Sandy Paws. Topsail came to stay for the weekend while his parents were away. He loves his toys. This is just minutes after he got dropped off.
We had a dog haul this past weekend. Our kids are wondering if any of them are coming home with us. As a matter of fact, two of them did. Chaska, a black female, stayed with us for the afternoon till we could drop her off at her new home. Sunflower, a fawn female, is with us for a couple of weeks.
Sunflower stops to smell the honeysuckle.
Chaska ain’t the ‘stop to smell the roses’ type. She’s a runner. Her new home doesn’t have a fenced-in yard. So she was enjoying it while she had it.


She’s a petite little girl. What a cutie-pie.
It didn’t take very long for Sunflower to figure out stairs, doggie door, stuffies, and the dog bed.