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Denim Days Is Coming Home

Denim Days is like my mistress – she is the greyhound that I secretly think about when I’m petting my own.  She caught my attention many months ago when Heather and I were in Birmingham to pick up dogs from Fishdog Kennels.  When I opened her crate she bounded toward me and started covering me [...]

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29Mar2009 | Ken Vaughn | 3 comments | Continued
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Fell First Turn, DNF

Bunny schooled again on Thursday.She didn’t exactly burn up the track on her first schooling race, so I anxiously and excitedly pulled up the schooling results on Friday morning. I found her race and read words that no racing greyhound owner wants to read: Fell First Turn, DNF. The DNF stands for “did not finish.” EEK! My excitement quickly drained away and my anxiety shot up quite a few notches.

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28Mar2009 | Heather Vaughn | 2 comments | Continued
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Things are moving at the track!

Unfortunately, our dear Bunny doesn’t seem to be moving as fast as the other dogs…LOL She had her first schooling race Monday morning and not only did she finish without her muzzle…she finished dead last. Of course, this was just her first schooling race . Her littermate, Wildcat Alley, performed pretty much the same way [...]

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25Mar2009 | Heather Vaughn | 0 comments | Continued
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Lucky Louie’s third career

He started life as a racing greyhound. He retired from racing and became a blood donor for a vet clinic in Nebraska. And now, Lucky Louie starts a third career: lure coursing! I brought Louie along last weekend to fill the entry I’d submitted for Bodhi. Louie is one of our more active hounds and [...]

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24Mar2009 | Heather Vaughn | 1 comment | Continued
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Echo does it again!

Ah Echo. My little lure coursing machine. I often tell Ken that she’s my once in a lifetime dog. I don’t know that I’ll ever have the good fortune to own a dog like her. Natural ability, sound build, nice feet and the heart of a champion. She has brought me to tears more than [...]

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24Mar2009 | Heather Vaughn | 0 comments | Continued
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Back-to-back lure coursing weekends!

With the sadness of losing Bodhi, I haven’t wanted to do much of anything. I’d already entered Bodhi and Echo in the SEGC’s Run for Rescue and Southern Turf Classic March 21-22 and I contemplated scrapping the whole weekend and just staying home. But, thanks to Ken’s encouragement (sometimes he knows what I need more [...]

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23Mar2009 | Heather Vaughn | 0 comments | Continued
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It’s a boy!

Yesterday was the pup draw for the Dave the Dog x Flying Tan Time litter in which we own one puppy. There were 8 puppies, with the A pup already given to the previous owner of Tan Time as part of her sale to Team Greyhound. The pup draw is done randomly…the owners who have purchased [...]

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20Mar2009 | Heather Vaughn | 2 comments | Continued
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She’s looking good!

In what’s been an otherwise sad week for us and our pack, we had some welcome news from Team Greyhound regarding our race girl, Bunny.

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19Mar2009 | Heather Vaughn | 2 comments | Continued
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Greyhound Zen Moment

Few things in life are better than being surrounded by a happy, balanced pack of greyhounds. No government bailouts, no urgent emails, no ringing phone or dinging text messages. Just peace and quiet and wagging tails and puppy dog kisses…

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18Mar2009 | Heather Vaughn | 0 comments | Continued
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Lure Coursing Results Mar 14-15

CHASE’s annual St. Patrick’s Day field trial was held in at Old Mill Farm in Cartersville last weekend. This was the first time in over a year that Echo was entered to run on both days – a test to her endurance. The course was 870 yards on Saturday and 810 yards on Sunday. A [...]

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17Mar2009 | Heather Vaughn | 0 comments | Continued
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