The Week in Review

This week at "Golden Pines" ....

Our regular dog-walker went on vacation and the girl who filled in on the first day, got locked out of the house just as she was getting everyone back inside. She's not sure how it happened, but she thought she heard snickering on the other side of the door.

~I'll bet Todd knows how the door suddenly closed on the dog-walker~

Our foster kitten went missing.  After a search of the entire house, top to bottom several times, including closets. he was nowhere to be found.  Just as panic had set in I was about to give up, Mo was found laying on a chair.  

For the past few weeks I've been working with Sunny to allow him to be off lead during our walks. The very first morning he was totally off of a leash and not dragging one behind him, he ran off after a rabbit.  He was so beautiful as he ran across the yard and into the woods. Because I had slow-pokes George and Jake on leads, I couldn't go after him.  All I could do was stand there and watch him disappear.  Fortunately, I also worked on Sunny's recall and he came back to me, his eyes all sparkling and happy.

Charlie is all dressed up.  He has a skin infection and is on antibiotics.  He's not loving the new look.  So I took off the shirt, and he's a little happier.

Axel, our foster boy for Lab Rescue, went to his new home on Thursday.  I'll admit, he was another dog that I was on the fence about keeping. We were all crazy about him! But a retired couple that lives on the Maryland shore offered him a chance at a good life of fun and lots of family.  The report today was that Axel had met all the grandchildren, their dogs, and he was loving being able to play in the water.  Retired Dog-Mom doesn't think that his tail has stopped wagging.

~Axel will be missed  and not forgotten!~ 

Axel's dog bed didn't have time to get cold.  On Friday we welcomed a new addition named Webster from Lab Rescue.  Just as a coincidence he came from the same shelter in West Virginia that Axel did.  But it's thought that all the changes and boarding proved to be too stressful for him, because he ended up with bloat, and had emergency surgery on Monday.

Unfortunately he wasn't getting along well with our crew.  He was very reactive around the dogs every time they came near him and it was getting worse. All the dogs just ignored him. But Lab Rescue and I agreed that it would be best if a new foster home was found for Webster.  I'm grateful that on a holiday weekend a new one was found that he could be taken to this afternoon. I felt badly that it didn't work out.  But Webster really needed a quiet place to recover from his bloat-surgery, and as an only dog in his new foster home, he'll get that chance.

~Webster, we hardly got to know him~

Through the stress of the last couple of days, I was really proud of Todd.  He's always ready to rumble but did as I asked when I told him to "go on" when Webster was barking at him -- Even though I could tell he was hesitating and having to think about it. Unlike the video below, doing exactly as he was asked, was a little un-Scottie of him!