Monday, Monday, wake up and drive to work. The work week begins yet again but I enjoyed a slight variety to my commute this morning. Betty rode along with me! On my way to the office I dropped her off at the vet to get spayed; I picked her up on my [...]
Archive for July, 2007
#34 – Why Own When You Can Rent?
Posted in adoption, dog behavior, dog rental, dog rescue, dog welfare, dogs, flexpetz, foster betty, homeless dogs on 30 July 2007 | 6 Comments »
#33 – Critter Cottage
Posted in adoption center, critter cottage, mel's feed, mel's feed & pet supply, store front, vickys pet connection, vpc on 27 July 2007 | 4 Comments »
The Critter Cottage opened on Monday, July 23! Vicky’s Pet Connection has teamed up with Mel’s Feed & Pet Supply in the Critter Cottage venture. VPC will be doing cat and dog adoptions and Mel will be running the retail side of things.
Some cats available for adoption will be at the Critter Cottage all of [...]
#32 – Lost Dog
Posted in adoption update, dog instincts, heartworm, lost dog, lost dog prevention, microchip, runaway dog, sammie on 16 July 2007 | 2 Comments »
Not too long ago I wrote about Sammie and Millie being adopted into the same home after becoming friends while spending time in the Vicky’s Pet Connection program. Last week we got word that Sammie ran away from home!
Sammie was in her new home for about a week and a half adjusting [...]
#31 – A Long Drive for an Adoption Meeting
Posted in adoption, adoption meeting, dog rescue, dogs, foster kendall, fostering on 14 July 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Our latest foster dog, Kendall, was with us for a little less than a week. It’s not uncommon for people to drive an hour or two to adopt a puppy from us. Some have even driven from neighboring states. The couple that adopted Kendall drove 10 hours one way to meet and take him home! [...]
#30 – Can Dogs Laugh?
Posted in adoption, dog behavior, dog communication, dog laughter, dog rescue, dog research, dog welfare, dogs, fostering, homeless dogs, shelters on 6 July 2007 | 5 Comments »
According to animal behaviorist Patricia Simonet, dogs most certainly can laugh. She describes it as “hah hah hah” but without the “a” and she has the briefest of sound clips on her laughing dog page. Beacon doesn’t make this sound much, but playful Haven dog-laughs frequently. My impression is that this isn’t a funny/humor laugh [...]
#29 – Heartworm Prevention
Posted in adoption, animal welfare, dog health, dogs, foster eddie, fostering, heartworm, heartworm positive, heartworm positive dogs, heartworm prevention on 2 July 2007 | 8 Comments »
This is Eddie. We fostered him from June 28 – July 2. He’s happy. He loves to play, especially fetch. He’s a laid back down to earth guy. Sounds perfect, right? The good news for Eddie is that he has been adopted. The bad news is that he [...]
#28 – Therapy Dog
Posted in adoption, animal welfare, dogs, foster daisy, fostering, homeless dogs, shelters, therapy dog, vickys pet connection on 2 July 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This past week we fostered two yellow labs. Both have been adopted. And both deserve a Why Dogs? post. I’ll start with Daisy.
Daisy, as I posted earlier, loved to roll around in the grass as if she were happy to be able to play in it after spending a month in a shelter. She spent [...]
