Close Encounter

Who hasn’t heard this when walking their dog: “Is your dog friendly?” asks the other dog owner who’s walking toward you with their dog on or off leash. Normally, I would say “Yes, of course, my dogs never hurt or attack anyone.” Until today. Latte and Emma and I were walking the marsh. They are [...]

Stairs are no problem for me

I don’t know if you’re read my story on Latte learning about stairs, but with Emma stairs were an entirely different thing. Actually, a non-event. On her first day with us, she came into the house and started exploring. On leash of course, because we wanted to be sure to keep her from anything that [...]

Step by Step

When we picked up our beautiful Latte at the adoption agency, we not only got a dog and a few accessories, we also got a whole package of instructions to read about sleep aggression, what a racing greyhound’s life was like and some of the things we would have to teach him. Even though we [...]

Kaboom!

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Kaboom! is the day of the big fireworks put on by a popular radio station in San Francisco. It usually takes place around the middle of May. Kaboom! is also the day we picked up our first greyhound “Latte”. Today is May 12th, 2007 and it’s a special day on many fronts: – It’s my [...]

Latte comes home

After we filled out all the adoption papers and passed the phone interviews and house visit, we were excitedly waiting for the call from the adoption agency that dogs were coming in and that the one that was just right for would be among them. On our form, we said we wanted a male (because [...]