Goodbye Gable and Etta

You'll be missed.  We love you. 

Gina aka Iza Sure Bet finds her forever home :(

Our old girl, Gina, our foster greyhound, found her new forever home today.  She is about 5 minutes from us so that is comforting.  I am happy for her but so sad to see her go; she is a great hound!  Gina was known on the racetrack as Iza Sure Bet.  She was retired when she broke something racing and the KS Greyhound Rescue took her in so that she could retire in style and be somebody's pet.  She first went through their KS Jailhouse Program where she was trained by a prison inmate in KS.  There, she was taught how to sit, stay, lay down, shake, and sing!  She is one smart cookie!  From there, she was adopted out to a nursing home here in Omaha, NE.  She lived for quite awhile at the nursing home until she was too old to be cared for properly..that is how she came to be our foster grey. 

Gina fit right in with our other hounds and Buddy.  She was a sweet girl and loved everybody she came across.  She will be missed by us but she deserves her forever home.  Bittersweet is the only way I can accurately describe today.

Late Nights Are For the Dogs....

Talk about an extremely lazy day today!  LMR and I were up chatting into the wee hours of the morning-as in THIS morning. Between facebooking, watching happyslip videos and lots of laughter the night slipped away and before we knew it the clock was chiming 4:00 a.m. .  I am absolutely exhausted!!  You would think I would realize that I am getting to darn old to pull an all nighter but apparently I am in denial.  Of course, the bout of insomnia that I have been battling doesn't really make matters any better AND I was up bright and early at 8:00 this morning.  4 hours of sleep + me = sloth.  Which got me thinking that I could have given the greys a run for their money in the sluggish department today.  If I were a betting woman I would have placed all my money on me.  I was convinced that I would have placed first in LAZY until I started looking around at my greyhounds....who were all lying around looking perfectly content to stay in one spot.  Etta, my youngest greyhound, was up late last night hangin' w/ the big dogs ( ....that would be Lynette and me....) and look how well she fared today.  I don't think she has moved once ...other than to eat. Wow.  Maybe I do have more in common with my hounds than I realized........