MrAlexTheDog

congrats, pj! and welcome home, kali!

i'm pleased to read your latest update, brie. good job, doolin -- you can do this!

damn, kari, i'm sorry about the confirmation.

last night i scanned a print of a picture i took for a dog collar story that was published in celebrating greyhounds magazine. i was hoping to find the negative to scan but have not yet found it. so for the time being i settled for scanning the print instead, and then did a little clean-up in lightroom. nikki was the best. she was always happy. even now i can still picture in my mind her white-tipped brindle tail turning in ever more furious circles as she got excited. i can still hear her teeth chattering and i can hear her talking. she was so beautiful. it is a good memory.

both of our girls do this.

ugh, kristin, i wish you had more time with him. i'm sorry to learn of this news.

that's great news, jen. i'm glad i'll get to see her again at dewey!

i'm sorry to read of bobbi's passing. i think i may have a few pictures of bobbi when i was at GIG this year. i believe this is her: i'm more than happy to send you copies of pictures of her if you wish. let me know.

ryan, your time here wasn't long enough. watch over your mom and dad.

i'm very sorry for you losing ryan.

paul, i'm sorry to learn of this. i'm glad that i did get the chance to meet him when i visited you and your pack on my trip to philly.

that's great news, robin.

but you two are special, jen. maybe not in the being-immune-to-anything-bad-happening sense, but special nonetheless. you have her, and she has you. no one else can make that claim. we're here for you if you need to talk.

we think of you and love you every day, nik.

i called two different la quinta's in utah when trying to book hotel reservations a couple of years back. their pet policies were different, so i asked the more pet-friendly hotel why. i was told that the la quinta hotels owned by the company are more pet-friendly than those that are franchises. but there's no way to know which hotel is company-owned vs. a franchise if you don't know to ask.

pat, i'm very sorry to read this about zeus. i wish i could've met him.

lauren, my family is doing well, although i'll be looking for work at the beginning of may due to layoffs at ibm (i'm an oracle database administrator). our greys, sadie and katie, are both 7 now (we got them both before they were 2). we lost nikki in may '08 (a week before she was to turn 13) due to a fractured hock caused by a spindle-cell tumor that grew next to the bone and caused it to deteriorate. we finally took sadie & katie to solvang last month, hoping to let them run in the solvang streak. but it rained briefly the night before so the grass was too slippery to let any dogs run. i didn't take as many pictures this year as opposed to previous years, but that was okay with me. still indulging in my photography habit. i got to finally go to dewey last year and took a lot of pics. i stayed with a number of GT'ers who had rented a townhouse for the weekend. it was a lot of fun and am planning on going back this year. i'll be going to gig next month and shooting more pictures. not that any of them are good but i have a lot of fun doing it. hope you, your family, and your pups are well. don't be a stranger -- keep in touch as time allows.

hey lauren, it's great to see you back here!

bailey, wherever you are, alex and nikki will show you around. mo, i'm repeating myself but i'm glad i got to meet her at dewey last year, if even for a few minutes to grab a few shots of her.

beth, i'm sorry to learn of smiley's passing.

alisha, sorry to learn that you've lost iceman.