Sunshine Naptime

Ok, so during the spring and summer months, sun shines through our windows and causes all of the dogs to sunbathe in it. In fact, Gracie will bark at dogs and fight over her space in the sun. Well, it was early afternoon and that is when the room is drenched in sunlight, and a ton of the dogs found a spot in the sunshine and passed out. You can tell they love the sun because they follow the shape of it on the floor of the daycare. Say hello to sunshine naptime.

Nap Time

Thank goodness for nap time.

Around lunchtime and the early afternoon, all of the pups are so tired that they are start to fall asleep near our feet since we sit at a little table near the radio and sign-in sheet. It is the best time of day. They get so exhausted that I can finally hear myself think for the first time three or four hours! I often get new customers ask if we have a scheduled nap time and put them away, and that answer is no, but that they all do have an inner clock telling them it is time for a little snooze.

Here is a picture of what nap time looks like.

More Breedest Beagles!

Some of you may remember my previous post on Breedist Beagles. Well, here's another example of this discrimination!

From the left is, Charlie, Treacle, and Freckles

Hunter the Basset Hound

Hunter is the cutest lady hound ever. She just walks around wagging her tail back and forth super slow and her whole body moves, and she is crazy cute. She also has the longest ears ever, and I hope that if another dog needed an ear transplant she would be willing to donate since she has so much extra!

Meet Hunter!

Louie and Buddy

This is Louie and Buddy, brothers who come to daycare together. Buddy is the white lab and he is about a year old, Louie is the retriever and he's a bit older. I am not sure his exact age, but he has that charming grey muzzle dogs get when they start to age. Anyways, Louie has been a regular at daycare since I have worked there and has always been somewhat of a loner. But ever since his family got Buddy he has become much more affectionate. Buddy is super sweet, always greets everyone with a wagging tail and plenty of kisses! As you can see here, they love to snuggle up and take a nap together in the warm california sun. How sweet!

Foster Animals

I just wanted to show the list of all the fosters Matt and I have taken in over the last 2 years or so. They have been so great (well, most of them) and we have enjoyed loving them before they went to their forever homes!

Fall 2008.

Matt and Mojo! A 6 month old Chihuahua from WaggyTail Rescue, super playful and so cute! He peed a lot at first because he didn't know how to ration water, but he was a dream!

Fall 2008.

Gustave. An itty bitty kitty that we found on the street of Bushwick. He was standing in garbage and didn't even fight me as I picked up right up and put him in a towel. He was exhausted and hungry. He loved Scout so much and would crawl into her bed to cuddle. He is now Versace, and lives with one of my old roomate's best friends.

Video of Gus and Scout

October 2008.

Moose, a pitbull who followed us home on the streets of Bushwick. He had no tags, and we put up flyers everywhere and never heard back. He now lives on a farm with one of my friends in Connecticut. For those of you wondering, he is trying to squeeze into a cat bad at my mom's house.

January 2009.

Cookie Monster! A Shih Tzu/Poodle we took in almost less than a week after we placed Moose at his home. I was effing heartbroken over Moose and took in another pup right away.

She was amazing. She was a matted mess, and now is living it up in Rye, NY.

Video of Cookie

March 2009.

Vinny... Um.... Vinny was super cute and a nice dog, kinda. He bit me twice the first day I got him. He became obsessed and protective of me, and whenever Matt tried to hug me, Vinny tried to attack him. So, he was cute, but it made me see the scary side of chihuahuas.

May 2009.

Maddie (left) and Chelsea (right). We were wanting to adopt Chelsea because she had this cute little ink drop nose. But the two of the kitties hated Scout! So they were placed with a kickass couple who live in Queens. So friggin cute!

June 2009.

Teddy, a pit bull mix. We really only had this pup for like 4 days, he got placed so fast because he was so cute! He nows lives in Bridgeport, Ct.

July 2009

Penelope, a pit bull mix. So sweet, and such a cuddlebug. Here she is in Sunset Park, Brooklyn chewing on a stick which was one of her favorite activities! She just loved rolling in the grass after being in the shelter for so long!

Video of Penelope

August 2009.

Our last foster, Otis. Found on a windowsill that had a 20 foot or more drop below the window. I still have no idea how he got himself stuck up there. But when I walked past him and asked him, "what are you doing up there?" he started meowing like a maniac as if to say, "help me!" Now he is in a home with a nice dad!

When Pit Bulls Love French Bulldogs

There is this stigma about pit bulls that they are vicious and just all around bad dogs. Well that's bullshit. Although I do recognize the fact that when they are trained to be aggressive they obviously are not the best dogs, but that is not the fault of the dog but the fault of the human who raised them to be that way. Also, pit bulls do have something called "lock jaw" where when they grab something they don't let go, which is why they were bred and trained to be fighting dogs in the first place. But another one of their beginning functions were to be babysitters. That's right, parents would leave kids with pit bulls as a sort of sitter. They are great people dogs, but do tend to have issues when it comes to other dogs. But, they live to please people.

A male unneutered pit bull mix followed me, my boyfriend, and our dog Scout home one night and we took him in. He was, hands down the best dog ever. He listened to us better than our own dog, but he had anxiety and whenever we left him alone, he would chew up things, and I hated putting him in a crate during the day. Once we got him neutered and all his shots we were looking for a home for him, when I was reconnected with a friend from years back, and she mentioned wanted to adopt him. He now lives on a farm with one of my friends in Connecticut with her husband, their 2-3 year little boy, another pit, as well as chickens, pigs, cows, donkeys, goats, chickens, etc., and another baby sibling on the way! We named him Moose, but because of his little human brother's love for birds he was renamed Goose, and is the most kickass dog ever (except for the fact that he runs away and gets into trouble bothering horses and the like around Connecticut.) He looks kinda sad in this pitcure, but it's only because he hated getting photographed so here are links to videos of Mr. Moose.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLHUP0WCuis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mHzluTCado

I have fostered in 3 pit bulls, and they were all great, and as a woman it is empowering to walk with one down the street because weirdos, and men run away or move out of my way in order for me to pass. Anyways, my boyfriend and I fostered a pit we named Penelope. She came from the East New York ACC shelter and had severe seperation anxiety but was the biggest love bug ever. She was placed with a naive couple (the wife wanted her, the husband blatantly did not.. and although I told the organization who I was fostering through what I thought, they still placed her in the home). The couple had a dog the same size as ours, and Penelope sat on their yippie terrier. Because she sat on the dog, they said she was vicious and she got sent back to us. Note to adopters- make sure you and your partner both want to dog... don't use bullshit excuses to get out of an adoption. So that day... the day that this alleged aggressive pit bull sat on a stupid spoiled yippie terrier named Sassy... she came back to our place and when I invited her and our dog Scout up on the bed, she cuddled up with Scout and put her nose in her butt. Yea, really aggressive.