Almost everyone who cares about animals knows about Greyhounds and dog racing. It’s sad what many dogs go through, and we’ll talk a bit about that, but there are good people doing good things to help, too, so we’ll also talk about that.
We have people in our Town who adopt rescued Greyhounds. I met a couple of very nice Greyhounds at my last appointment to the vet. I’m just a tiny little dog, and these are bigger than me, very fine featured dogs with very strong hind-quarter muscles which probably is why they are fast, and used for racing. They are so gentle that it’s sad to think that they are used this way. Let’s get the sad video over with, then we can move on to the good things people are doing:
Greyhounds, or dogs that look very much like them have been found as part of the artwork on Egyptian tombs over 2000 BC. They were developed for hunting in more recent history. They make wonderful, gentle, loving house pets.
If you think you’d like to learn more about how to help Greyhounds, or would like to adopt on, there are many websites that help, Adopt a Greyhoud is just one that will lead to other helpful sites.
If you’ve read my blog, you know that my owner was there when I was born. She saw the whole thing! It was a beautiful site in many ways, but if you are squeamish, it may be hard to watch. She was looking to see if she could find any videos of Yorkies being born. She found a couple, but none that looked as nice and interesting as this video of a Maltese puppy being born. What a good mommy she/he had.
My owner watched me being born, I was the first of the litter delivered, but my Mom walked around while she was delivering…it was a warm day, and she even walked outside. In the post before this one you’ll find a link to pictures of me back then, and there are some on this blog.
I’ve been thinking about how nice it would be if my owner would get around to clipping the hair around my eyes, and my nails. She gave me a bath and trimmed most of my hair about a week ago. She gets a little nervous with the scissors around the eyes, so I’m trying to get her to look into the Yorkie grooming instructions provided by clicking here, especially since this is specifically about grooming Yorkies, right down to the littlest detail, and because the Yorkie in the picture at the site looks just like me!
And for some more grooming information, let me remind you about some of the posts we have already written on this blog:
Cleaning a dog’s teeth – this was an article we found that tells you how to clean your dogs teeth, and how important it is. We posted it back when I was having tooth problems.
Clipping your dogs nails – here’s another page that we did that you should find helpful, my nails are quite long now, and need trimming.
Not grooming may cause ear infections - this is about ear infections, but has some information about how not grooming the ears properly can lead to infected ears in dogs.
Those are just a few things that we hope will help you, and now it’s time for us to stop blogging so I can beg for treats and then my owner can try to start working on some quilting.
My geeky owners send emails to each other and chat with each other when one of them is at work, and today a really cute one came, it’s even more than cute, it’s really nice and something that you’ll probably never see unless you watch this video:
As a dog, I really don’t like water much…maybe because the only time that I get a chance to be in water it’s for a bath. I get baths in the kitchen sink because I’m so small, and the only bubbles that I’ve ever seen are the ones that come from the soap lather when I get my bath.
Then my owner and I watched this cute video when we went to visit a site called dolphinbubbles.com, it’s actually beautiful and really peaceful to watch. It shows playful, graceful dolphins blowing rings of bubbles, we can’t figure out how they do it, no matter how much we watch. Then they watch the rings, play with them, try to swim through them, and more…you HAVE to see the dolphin bubbles for yourself to believe it. Take a look:
My owners have been to Seaworld in Orlando, Florida. They spent a whole day there with the children that are now grown up, so we’re wondering if maybe they didn’t have the bubble blowing dolphins then. You’re going to want to stop by and visit the dolphinbubbles.com blog/site, because there are other videos and pictures there. You can “leave a bubble” yourself if you like a post…have you been to Seaworld? Let us know in a comment, here or at the Dolphin Bubbles site.
