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Articles from June 2017

The Big-Eyed Pizza Begger

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Ready to eatMarie and I discourage the dogs from begging when we all gather to eat a meal.  We do that by not hand feeding them scraps from the table.  They get their kibbles in their bowls set on their blankets  arranged around the table.  If we share some of what we’re eating, we put their portion in their bowls.

Today I was engaging in a working lunch at my desk: a warmed up piece of left-over pizza from the weekend.  Josie the big-eyed beagle thought that smelled pretty good.  All the dogs like “pizza bones”.

Well … just ONCE won’t hurt, right?

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Dog Park Update

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The Dogtor is in

For the past three days we have been hosting an installation crew from Stanley Fencing Inc. in Sevierville TN. In a previous post I described what we hoped to do and asked for help with the cost: we just didn’t have enough to cover the cost – and we want to get it done before winter.

The response was heart-warming. A batch of fellow dog lovers stepped up and offered generous gifts. In just 5 days following the posting of our request, we had covered our deficit and had scheduled the fence company to do the installation. They started work on Wednesday and got all the posts in and some of the top rail on.

On Thursday they came back to hang the chain-link and install gates. They ran into a couple of Oopsies: and an opportunity to show off their customer service.

  1. The fella who counts out parts and bags them up for each job shorted the job 10 tension straps, so they cannot properly install the final run of mesh. Their business is too far away to have these guys go after more.
  2. The fella who welds up gates made one too small and it doesn’t fit. This will take some time, so they would have to come back again anyway: might as well do it all in one trip.

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Josephine Goes to Summer Camp

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Marie and I are a foster home for dogs.  We often develop attachments to our charges (the dogs) and have to fight back tears as we send them off to new homes.  Some are harder than others, but we’ve learned to deal with that.  Well, mostly.

After her first bath

Josephine was especially hard, in part because she is still so timid.  She’s come a long ways from the terrified creature we took out of the shelter so she could find some peace and so we could work on her fear of people.

She had a health issue too, which we addressed with our veterinarian.  When her treatment was complete and she had settled down to where she could meet new people, we began soliciting for a forever home for her.

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