Lady Turned Turtle

I wish I had a picture to show you...Lady Flame turned turtle for the second time in a month. This time, she held the (roaching) position for at least a minute while Drew pet her. After 4 years and 3 months, Lady Flame is finally getting comfortable inside the house. It has been a long haul for all of us. She still has her scaredy dog moments, but they are lessening as each month goes by this year, since her adoption anniversary of July 21st. (Note: I really must keep the camera next to us ,while we watch tv in the evening, so as to document this momentous occasion.)

New Safety Vests

 New super reflective, and super spiffy vests for hunting season! Purchased from Amazon.com. 

Hound-O-Ween II - The Movie

Be prepared...to be scared...

Happy Hound-O-Ween!

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Wowee! The biggest day of the year for our Greyhound buddies has arrived! 

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Large Photo: Drena and Jeremy with their super pups Honor, Valor, Freedom

Upper Right: Veronica with her Team Unicorn - Bettina and Dennis

Middle Right: Billy and Shannon with the debonaire duo of Trouble and Sugaree

Bottom Right: Carol with her super hip trio of Melissa, Stari, and Love

Bottom Center: Pat and Rick with Elvis and his groupies: Flash, Gabby, and Jester

Bottom Left: Bille and the beautifully fashionable Skyy.

Hound-O-Ween was celebrated in big fashion, as all the greytest hound models in the fashion industry showed up to have their portraits taken. Our feature models are the newest members of our Hound-O-Ween gathering.

Umm... all I can say is that it is a good thing this group doesn't drink!

Oh yes...I almost forgot...here are the goofy duo of Laurie and Drew with their equally goofy pups, Lady Flame and Toby.

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Ahh...that's better! Even though this group didn't walk the runway, they still represented the greyhound species suitably well for Hound-O-Ween. 

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Have you ever wondered what it takes to get divas to pose? Well your questions should be answered by the photo series of Team Unicorn. It sure is a challenge to get everyone looking in the same direction!

"Phtttt"...says Trouble. "Let's go play some more!"

And, then there's Trouble. He said, "Enough already with the photography. I just want to run wild, run free, and bark!"

I don't know about everyone else's pups, but ours seem to be a bit over tired and restless tonight. I don't know how much sleep we are going to get with all this sleep-yipping and sleep-growling, and sleep-barking going on!

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Enough sleep already! Drew found a group picture that I took that actually had Flash in it (he was hiding in the official group photo, and Toby's face was showing (he was looking at Shannon in the official group photo.)

Hound-O-Ween Eve Apparition

'Tis Hound-O-Ween Eve, and all is quiet...all is calm... Aughhhhh!!!!!!! Grrrrrrr........

What the heck is that rising from the ashes of the wood stove? Something scary is reflected in the glass!

The Apparition of Hound-O-Ween has risen and is haunting the hallowed hound ground of Bowdoin. 

Calling all hounds! Calling all hounds! Converge at Caesar Pond, on Hound-O-Ween, to help chase the apparition back to the evil underworld...Wear your scariest costume and howl, howl, howl...

Toby v5.0

It's not every day that a pup turns 5 years old. Toby partied hardy today and is going to sleep well tonight! His daily activities were, in this order:

1. Peeing
2. Pooping
3. Eating
4. Sleeping
5. Walking along Starbird Corner (they made it about 1/2 the way due to it being so hot outside.)
6. Peeing multiple times and pooping multiple times down Starbird Corner Rd.
7. Sleeping
8. Snack (1/2 of a carrot)
9. Sunning himself on front deck
10. Snack (1/2 can of French cut green beans, salt-free)
11. Snack (slice of a banana)
12. Sleeping
13. Brief play with Lady Flame (her present to him was to engage him in play, which, by the way, rarely ever happens;-)
14. Dinner
15. Sleeping
16. Peeing
17. Sleeping through the night in his jammies

Toby's GQ Photo on the Androscoggin River Bank

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Toby said that it wasn't fair that Lady Flame should have all the glamour! So, back to the river we went for another quick photoshoot. Toby went leash-free this time. Drew was nearby in case Toby started to walk forward.

We have decided that we'll have to do this in the mid-morning next year to get optimum light.