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The Splash Diaries – day 4

Sunday, August 29 – day 4 Busy days yesterday and today. I tried for the first time yesterday (Saturday) to leave Splash crated for about five hours. I hope to work up to being able to leave her happily crated while I or her new owners are working all day long. She managed five hours [...]

The Splash Diaries: Day 2

Image via Wikipedia Friday, August 27 No problem getting Splash to eat her food when it’s doused in Panacur(R), so the first dose of the hookworm protocol is in. I upped her meal to a heaping cup and a half. She’ll get that twice a day until I can get 5-7 pounds on her. She’s [...]

The Splash Diaries – Day 1

Image by sombraala via Flickr Thursday, August 26 Splash the retired racing greyhound foster dog arrived at 10:15am. Cindy drove down to Ithaca this morning to pick her up from the people who transported her up from Florida, where she was released from the track earlier this month. The greyhound people call this a “haul.” [...]

Moving forward after you lose a dog

Image via Wikipedia I haven’t posted anything here since I posted the tribute to Casey, a few days after I put him down on June 9. It wasn’t because I haven’t been writing – I have – but writing about dogs other than writing about events has been really, really hard. I’ve spent most of [...]