Posts Tagged ‘ Pets ’

Bonnie’s Greyhounds – My Wife’s New Site On The Web

Bonnie’s Greyhounds – My Wife’s New Site On The Web

My wife Bonnie’s passion for our greyhounds Alex and Ava, and for our first greyhound Lola, is so full and deep. She has fallen head over heels for this breed. Now that she is fully retired she has taken to sharing her time to fostering greyhounds that need a little bit more socialization (and manners) before they can be adopted into their forever homes. She has written beautiful and lengthy e-mail updates about the progress of these dogs, as well as anecdotes about antics that our pair will do, and many times these tales have wound up in the...

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Morning Light & Color – Walking Hollywood Park

Morning Light & Color – Walking Hollywood Park

As much as I’d like to stay in bed and keep warm on these increasingly chillier autumn mornings, duty calls. In this case, walking the dogs. As I’ve posted in the past, for those who’ve been following this site, my wife Bonnie and I have two retired greyhounds, Alex and Ava, ages 5 and 7 respectfully. They led lives as working dogs so retirement has not come easily to them. So every morning they rise with the sun and need to go to work, meaning one of us has to throw on some clothes and head out the door...

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SPCA Update — Adopt-A-Thon Makes Front Page News!!!

SPCA Update — Adopt-A-Thon Makes Front Page News!!!

If you’ve been following the posts on this blog — which everyone should! — you’d know about the preview story I reported on last week for KCRA-TV to spread the word about the Sacramento SPCA Adopt-A-Thon held starting the following day. The goal was to open the doors for 12 hours on Friday, November 11, to adopt out 111 pets — dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, mice — into homes for the holidays. On a good day the SPCA adopts out 25-30 pets a day so this was a lofty goal. I wound up being unprecedented. A huge turn out....

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SPCA 11-11 Pet Adopt-A-Thon Update — We Did It!!!

SPCA 11-11 Pet Adopt-A-Thon Update — We Did It!!!

Late yesterday I got these text messages from Leslie Korrine with the Sacramento SPCA: “We have been inundated. Running out of animals!! It’s been a madhouse. People lined up at 8am.” Then from me: “Did any other station do a story on this?” From Leslie: “We did Good Day and had some advertising but a lot of people are saying that they saw the story on channel 3 . Thank you again!!” The goal had been to get 111 pets adopted in one day on 11-11-2011. On an average day the Sacramento SPCA adopts out 25-30 pets a...

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KCRA – SPCA Adopt-A-Thon Preview 11-11-2011

KCRA – SPCA Adopt-A-Thon Preview 11-11-2011

I’m rushing to post this story this evening to help promote the Sacramento SPCA 11-11 adoption drive that begins tomorrow, Friday, November 11 — 11/11. On an average day the SPCA adopts out 25-35 pets a day. On Friday, 11/11, their goal is to get 111 pets into new homes. It typically costs around $100 to adopt a dog and $85 to take home a cat from the SPCA. But on Friday, 11/11, you can adopt a dog or a cat for only $11.11. The SPCA has seen a huge number of animals who had been family pets relinquished...

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