Wednesday, February 18, 2009

New Family Member

For those of you who know my family well, you know that we have had retired greyhounds since 1996. We had Dancer, Molly, Ticket, Nikiski and Argus in that time. Argus died last March while we were on vacation. He was at our trusted kennel, and one night he went to sleep and did not wake up. That was very hard on all of us. Also, at that time we were building the new house and Sarah's wedding was coming up. We decided it was not a good time to get another dog. I, in particular, was not keen about getting another dog at all. I am the one who takes care of them the most, and I get extremely attached emotionally. Well, Wally and Sarah finally wore me down. We went to the greyhound adoption agency last Saturday and are now "fostering" this great looking dog. I say "fostering", because we have fostered three times before, and the dogs never go back. This great guy is called Wildman, racing name C YA Wildfire. He is three years old and BIG. He is very tall, even for a greyhound. He weighs about 82 pounds. He is very friendly and loves attention as you can see from the photo. He has wonderful manners other than trying to hug everyone who walks in the door. We are thinking about changing his name, but have not come up with a name that everyone likes.

4 comments:

earl said...
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Anonymous said...

He could give me a hug, but I probably should be sitting down when he does it. Sweet. I know, you could give a hug from me. Jan

Caroline B said...

I just love greyhounds - he looks like a keeper!

Twisted Knitter said...

Oh he's a beauty! And you can tell he has a really sweet face.