Foster Puppies!: July 2009

All of the pups are gone, and all I have to do is a ton of housework...but there may be a new cutie coming soon! :)

Jane...

...joined mama dog and puppy in the puppy pen last night.

Who in their right mind would choose to sleep with the puppy? Jane, of course, is catching up on her beauty sleep this afternoon.

We are down to mama dog and one puppy. The other three pups went to their new homes this week.

It gets easier each time to let them go.

I thought mama dog might feel bad seeing them go. Usually, the mama dogs leave us first, so I haven't seen how they react to losing their babies.

Well, let me tell you, she is thrilled. Thrilled. Literally jumping for joy. I guess I overestimated how much she enjoyed cleaning up after her children.

The last little pup should be gone next week, and then it is party time for the mama dog. She will get her youthful figure back, and maybe find her own happy home.

Dogs Playing...Go Fish?

Puppy Video

Here is a video of the puppies that Annie made. So sweet. Make sure you can hear the song, too.

Haley Guarding the Stairs

Six out of seven dogs trying to run upstairs!

Piles of Puppies

Puppy Training

Annie working to socialize the puppies to noisy kids' toys.

Update on Gunny

Remember, Gunny?

His new family sent me a photo. He is now all grown up and called Gunner!

Ready for Their Close-ups

Maddie, eating Morgan's slipper:

Spock, finding a moment of peace in the midst of chaos:

Kirk, eating Morgan's other slipper:

Abby and Me at Sunset on the Trail

Well, Abby and my shoe, anyway!

Inspiration

“Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.” -Rich Mullins

"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart." - Socrates

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." - Helen Keller

"Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.” - Henri Matisse

"What works good is better than what looks good, because what works good lasts." - Ray Eames

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal;but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." - Matthew 6:19-21

"Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it’ll spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein

" I am not afraid... I was born to do this." - Joan of Arc

"People new to Ivey's world see a puzzle missing pieces. But, I am convinced, unwillingly convinced, Ivey is WHOLE. She is all of the things we all should be, minus the things that really are unimportant." - Gwen Sirmans

Foster Puppies!