gracegirl

Hi greyhound experts. We had our last hound, Tessie, on Sentinel heart worm preventative for the years she lived with us. We battled nasty, medication-resistant hooks when she first arrived home as she was a Florida dog. Our airedale has also been on this, we haven't used any tick medication at all with her either. Little Poppy, our 20 week old lurcher now needs to get on monthly preventatives. I'm debating between Sentinel and adding Bravecto from March-ish through October-ish for ticks (vet recommended) or going with Simpartica, which covers everything. Thoughts on what would be best for her? I'll shoot an email over to the vet about Simpartica asking her opinion on that, but in the meantime wanted to see what the collective greyhound hive was doing these days. We are in the Denver metro area and walk near some wooded trails where ticks can be found, though we haven't had one on our dogs or ourselves, ever. Better save than sorry though. (We did have a flea issue from one of our dogs staying with a friend a few years ago, and I don't wish to repeat that nightmare of deep cleaning the house again, ever)

I’m just baffled at how something so cute can be so….sharp.

Trying is a different word than I used earlier. Lol. I love her so much. I love her so much. I just keep repeating that phrase. And “this too shall pass”. I think next week we’ll do a day or two of daycare.

She’s lucky she’s gorgeous because even after two walks and enrichment tonight (her snuffle mat) she’s still the spicy version tonight. I can’t wait until her baby canine teeth fall out.

For anyone, past or present, who is or has ever been a Bostonian…Lil Poppy would like to wish you a happy marathon Monday. She was cheering our friend Dr Brooke on, who is an e-vet across town from us. Luckily we don’t see her often professionally but we are very proud of her today. Poppy also wanted to show you her brand new collar that arrived in the mail today. The timing was very appropriate.

Yes! They are a great band. It brings me right back to my days living in Charlestown and drinking pints of Sam Adams at the Warren Tavern.

Because they absolutely 100%, without a shadow of a doubt, are about to do exactly that! Ask me how I know.

Ha! I wonder if there’s an infant hat that would work. I’ll have to look. Tessie is the title of a song by the Dropkick Murphy’s that they play at the end of every game at Fenway. It’s also the name of the adorable female mascot, her big brother is Wally (the green monster) https://www.mlb.com/redsox/fans/mascots/about-tessie

I always imagined my Fenway pup in their locker room with them. He was the dog who never really grew up, a perpetual puppy, and who had the best dah of his life nearly every day. He was always so happy. He would have fit right in with that team. And great idea to message the big guy. I might just do that. I hope he stays in tow for the next week and attends the game on Marathon Monday. Cuz we know whose city this is!

It’s not baseball season until a home run has been hit over the green monster. This year was a special one celebrating the 20th (!!!) anniversary of the curse reversing 2004 team. Best group of idiots to ever take the field together. And extra special in honoring knuckle baller Tim Wakefield and his wife Stacey who both were taken too young and passed of cancer in the last six months. If not for this team, my late hound Fenway wouldn’t have gotten his name and neither would late Tessie or sweet Lil Poppy/Papi. See…twins!

Echoing what greysmom said here too. Greyhound puppies are….different. We just adopted a little farm girl last month. She’s 18 weeks now and she’ll growl at us to communicate. We will allow her to growl to tell us to knock it off, but at the same time she doesn’t get to tell us what to do. Some things you might try are using high value treats (peanut butter or lunch meat or cheese) to move her off the couch. Toss a treat off the couch, reinforce by saying “off” as she gets off to go get it. You could also take her couch privileges away all together Last you could get a 12” traffic handle to keep on her at all times and use that when you need to move her around. I can promise you that if she were aggressive, she would break the skin and leave marks. She’s testing you. These pups are stubborn and will push to see what you’ll let them get away with. When Poppy growls at us, we say matter of factly “you are not the boss, I am the boss, knock it off” and we make her do what we want her to do. She’s definitely in her “testing boundaries” phase right now. I look at her every day and thank god that she’s cute so that I don’t open the front door and let her go find a new family. (Super kidding about this, I would never). We are going to start taking her to doggie daycare twice a week next week to get some of that energy out. A sleeping puppy is a good puppy.

Noted!

I don’t want to rush the puppy stage but I am looking forward to owning a respectable adult dog some day I just decided to look out of curiosity and placed a bid so thank you.

She doubled in weight between the two photos! Photo one is 12 lbs (just off the farm and def on the malnourished side) vs 24 lbs of all-you-can-eat spoiled house dog eating high quality kibble with supplements. And she’s still on the skinny side.

You actually do though and they are very easy to raise I bet this is how dads of preteen girls feel. I don’t think I like it.