You seriously will not see anything more adorable than this, except for your own son, OMG!
My husband is right, I have sissified him!
Monday, January 28, 2008
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Celebrating My Greyhound
I have one, her name is Slate. her racing name had been "Clean slate" and she hailed from Florida. she is now 11 years old, a senior dog, but year or two left in her. Greyhound life expectancy, as pets, are 10-15. 15 years is not seen by too many. Slate will not finish out her 12th.
Today she went to the vet for an xray, she has cancer. It is rapidly growing on her face, it's pushing on her eye and her nasal cavity. One night she woke us up with a horrible snorting sound.
Eight years ago, I was still living with my grandmother. I wanted a dog and my Grandmother told of a news article she recently read about a guy in Philly who was litterly "flying" racing greyhounds up to be adopted and to be saved from a shorter life on the tracks. I had grew with big german sheperds and labadors. Having a Greyhound sounded intriuging, and saving it's life was more interesting. I needed a co-adopter since I was not a home owner, my Grandmother signed as co-adopter. In August, 1999, we were given Slate, an all black female that was a little roudy and visious with squeky toys and newspapers. She needed to be in a home with no other animals, that was us. she quickly had our hearts and shortly after, she had my husbands, who at the time I was dating. She loved running, so much she made it out the door and down the block a couple of times. She loved ripping squeaky toys to pieces.
Thsi past fall she needed 6 teeth removed. They were extracted. then the swelling from the surgury never went down. The thoguht she needed one other tooth removed, they went ahead and removed a 7th. Swellign still had not gone down. She been on many different antibiotics and none worked. So finally, via xray today, it was determined as a cancerous tumor.
They said to keep her comfortable for the next few weeks. I asked if she would make it to Easter or more, and he said no.
Greyhounds are amazing pets. Theyy are gentle, great with children. They don't pester, but do require to be on a leash. Someday, furthur down the road, we will get another one.
Today she went to the vet for an xray, she has cancer. It is rapidly growing on her face, it's pushing on her eye and her nasal cavity. One night she woke us up with a horrible snorting sound.
Eight years ago, I was still living with my grandmother. I wanted a dog and my Grandmother told of a news article she recently read about a guy in Philly who was litterly "flying" racing greyhounds up to be adopted and to be saved from a shorter life on the tracks. I had grew with big german sheperds and labadors. Having a Greyhound sounded intriuging, and saving it's life was more interesting. I needed a co-adopter since I was not a home owner, my Grandmother signed as co-adopter. In August, 1999, we were given Slate, an all black female that was a little roudy and visious with squeky toys and newspapers. She needed to be in a home with no other animals, that was us. she quickly had our hearts and shortly after, she had my husbands, who at the time I was dating. She loved running, so much she made it out the door and down the block a couple of times. She loved ripping squeaky toys to pieces.
Thsi past fall she needed 6 teeth removed. They were extracted. then the swelling from the surgury never went down. The thoguht she needed one other tooth removed, they went ahead and removed a 7th. Swellign still had not gone down. She been on many different antibiotics and none worked. So finally, via xray today, it was determined as a cancerous tumor.
They said to keep her comfortable for the next few weeks. I asked if she would make it to Easter or more, and he said no.
Greyhounds are amazing pets. Theyy are gentle, great with children. They don't pester, but do require to be on a leash. Someday, furthur down the road, we will get another one.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Seraching for items
Happy New Year everyone! Hope all is well with everyone out there!
I've begun the new year with a quest for a few itemsa needed for both a trip to Florida in March and for summer weekend trips down the shore.
Item #1) A toddler travel bed. At the end of last summer my horrible pack "n play broke beyond repairable, it was man-handled due to being so horrible. AKA, my husband snapped a rail by bending it since trying to "unlock" the rails was impossible to due.
Good freinds of mine have a really cool travel bed for thier children. It's inflatable and has raised sides to prevent rolling out, I something along the lines of that. Another chocie is something new I saw, but very expensive, it springs open and can be zipped shut, so when my 1 year wakes up before us, at least I know he is enclosed.
Like I said, the latter is pricey, (of course ideal) and the first mentioned one will fit the bill, some on ebay are reasonbly priced, but the shipping charge is killing me and I can't find it in any store in town, hence my "quest"
Item #2) A storage bag for a carseat so It can be protected when checked as luggage on flights. In March I will fliy with my 12 month old in my lap and my 3 3/4 year old will be dine in a seat, she's done it before. so I'd like to check the carseats so that i don't have to rely on the nasty ones that come with the rental cars. A good freind of mine lent me a contraption that will strap the carseat to carryon luggage so it can act as a stroller. But I'm not set that is the best scenario. I will need to take two umbrella strollers anyway since they will be needed for the theme parks. I might as well gate check them since i will need to take them, so converting luggage to a stroller is not an answer for me, but i may, still mualing waht to do. I did reserve a bosster seat for my almost 4 year old with the car rentsl and only want to take the convertable or infant seat & base for the 12 month old son.
Yes I know this bag I'm looking for is $15 or so and easy enough to find at babies 'r us, but, since i'm already on a roll of being cheap, i keep rolling with it, LOL!
So these item I am scouring criagslist for and I can tell you now, they are NOT popular items people are looking to let go!
If you know the whereabouts of any of these, plaese tell me!!
I've begun the new year with a quest for a few itemsa needed for both a trip to Florida in March and for summer weekend trips down the shore.
Item #1) A toddler travel bed. At the end of last summer my horrible pack "n play broke beyond repairable, it was man-handled due to being so horrible. AKA, my husband snapped a rail by bending it since trying to "unlock" the rails was impossible to due.
Good freinds of mine have a really cool travel bed for thier children. It's inflatable and has raised sides to prevent rolling out, I something along the lines of that. Another chocie is something new I saw, but very expensive, it springs open and can be zipped shut, so when my 1 year wakes up before us, at least I know he is enclosed.
Like I said, the latter is pricey, (of course ideal) and the first mentioned one will fit the bill, some on ebay are reasonbly priced, but the shipping charge is killing me and I can't find it in any store in town, hence my "quest"
Item #2) A storage bag for a carseat so It can be protected when checked as luggage on flights. In March I will fliy with my 12 month old in my lap and my 3 3/4 year old will be dine in a seat, she's done it before. so I'd like to check the carseats so that i don't have to rely on the nasty ones that come with the rental cars. A good freind of mine lent me a contraption that will strap the carseat to carryon luggage so it can act as a stroller. But I'm not set that is the best scenario. I will need to take two umbrella strollers anyway since they will be needed for the theme parks. I might as well gate check them since i will need to take them, so converting luggage to a stroller is not an answer for me, but i may, still mualing waht to do. I did reserve a bosster seat for my almost 4 year old with the car rentsl and only want to take the convertable or infant seat & base for the 12 month old son.
Yes I know this bag I'm looking for is $15 or so and easy enough to find at babies 'r us, but, since i'm already on a roll of being cheap, i keep rolling with it, LOL!
So these item I am scouring criagslist for and I can tell you now, they are NOT popular items people are looking to let go!
If you know the whereabouts of any of these, plaese tell me!!
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