Our Susie who we adopted 3 weeks before her 14th birthday and lived past 15 ran around the backyard until the last week of 2. Diandra who lived until 14 years 8 months ran around the living room at every mealtime. We called it her happy dance.
When I adopted Bug (bb's Dancing Bug) at a little over 3 years old she also came off the track with bone fractures where she needed surgery and had pins and screws installed. In her case after the bone healed her skin didn't so she had a second surgery to remove all of her pins and screws. She was always very protective of her leg and wouldn't let anyone near it. She also had a hard time walking on tile floors. Other than that she was fine. She ran with my other greyhounds in the backyard. She lived to be 13 years, 6 months without any problems. At the time I had 5 greyhounds and Bug was my alfa.
In 2005 we adopted a grey (Susie) who was almost 14 years old with kidney disease. We had to give her sub-q treatments. She lived about a month past her 15th birthday. We had her for 14 months.
About 3 1/2 weeks ago Buddy lost his eyesight. After having a CT scan he was found to have a brain tumor. Once he started getting seizures we had to say goodbye to this sweet lovable boy. We are going to miss him.
I find minivans are the best. You can put the back seats down and still have the middle seats for the kids. I've had minivans since 2000 and greyhounds since 2003, as many as 5 at one time. I currently have 2, Buddy and Princess.
Welcome to greytalk. I've had 10 greyhounds of which 4 were black. They are all beautiful. Enjoy your special baby and look for our Christmas card exchange signup in Oct. That's when we exchange pictures of our special babies.
Today we had to say goodbye to our sweet Deedee. She came to us as a special needs dog in Sept 2013. She required 24/7 care but she was worth every minute of it. She was with us for almost 9 years. She is going to be missed.
Her name was Susie. In 2005 when I adopted a 14 year old named Susie from GPA/Orlando many people here on greytalk told me about the other Susie and even posted pictures of her in a rickshaw at "Dewey Beach". When I took my Susie to "Sandy Paws" the following year when she was almost 15 I bought a garden cart to wheel her around. I still have that cart with the signs "Princess Susie" on them.