New Year, New Challenges

I have been quite neglectful of this poor blog as well as many other aspects of my life. The main culprit has been our four-legged kids. We lost our precious India to cancer back in September of 2008 and still miss her mischievous actions that kept us on our toes. She was the most recent greyhound we adopted and our first experience with the loss. Even though you know their lives are shorter compared to we humans, it does not make the event any easier to deal with.

We didn't have a quiet house for long. The next month we 'rescued' my sister's Boston/Rat Terrier mix from her. Seeing as both she and her husband work this little bundle of energy was just too much for them. We spent the following months slowing integrating Maggie, the newbie, with our greyhounds. This was quite an adventure since our male grey, Callin, has never been small animal friendly and we feared for Maggie's safety. After weeks of working with them we were astounded by the progress and the tolerance of our greyhounds. And now after 6 months all three dogs co-exist together in harmony, for the most part. Maggie has learned when Callin growls he means business and she should stop trying to play with him. Tooni, our female grey, has taken over the mothering/playmate role with Maggie and the two of them are constantly interacting in one way or another. Tooni does an excellent job of trying to teach Maggie manners, but alas Maggie is a poor student.

We have gotten to know the veterinarians quite well over the past few months. Callin needed some surgery of his own and we recently went through more surgery with Maggie just last week. So yes there will be more posts to come about my four-legged little bundles of joy.