Vicky’s Pet Connection has many “good saves” throughout the year. Pregnant dogs, sick dogs, and those who have been at the shelter for a long time. This is Nikkie. She had been at the county shelter since the middle of November. Picked up by animal control as a stray no one looked for her. Vicky [...]
Archive for the ‘adoption’ Category
#52 – Photo of the Week #3
Posted in adoption, adoption center, dogs, photo of the week, tagged dogs, good save, photo of the week, rescuing dogs, shelter rescue on 16 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
#46 – Four Dog Days
Posted in adoption, dogs, tagged amber, dogs, foster teddy, four dogs, havybeaks on 19 November 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Toward the end of October we watched one of our former foster dogs for a few days. I’ve kept in touch with her mom who was going to be out of town on business. She asked if Andrew and I would watch Amber. Amber was one of our favorite foster dogs from [...]
#45 – Brotherly Love
Posted in adoption, dogs, tagged adoption update, foster teddy, sibling dogs, siblings on 15 November 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last month Andrew and I fostered Teddy. He was a returned dog. Originally he was adopted last fall when he was about 10 weeks old. A retired couple adopted him. The husband had a stroke and lost movement on one side of his body. His wife needed knee replacement surgery this summer. A neighbor kept [...]
#43 – On Ellen DeGeneres…
Posted in adoption, dog welfare, dogs, shelters, tagged adoption, dog adoption, dogs, ellen, ellen degeneres, shelter on 24 October 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The story of Ellen DeGeneres giving away a dog to her hairdresser because it didn’t get along with her cats is old news now. But should it have been news in the first place? I’ve got neutral feelings as far as Ellen goes as a celebrity and person. I don’t go out of my way [...]
#35 – Fifty Foster Dogs
Posted in adoption, dogs, foster dogs, fostering, humane society, vickys pet connection on 1 August 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Andrew and I have been fostering since March, 16, 2005. Our current foster dog Betty (left) is the 50th dog that has spent time in our house since then.
Clover (right) was our first foster dog, through the Humane Society of Kent County. The rest of our foster dogs have been through Vicky’s [...]
#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 »
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 [...]
#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 [...]
