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Vet visit x 4

Having 15 dogs, I’m sure it’s no surprise to you that we often find ourselves at the vet’s office. This week we had four pups who needed to head to the vet for various reasons…Echo, Melody, Tater and Peanut.

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15Apr2009 | Heather Vaughn | 0 comments | Continued
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Joining the Pack – Peanut

At the end of 2006, Team Greyhound Racing was closing their kennel in Mobile. I often helped transport hounds from their  Birmingham racing kennel to the SC/NC area, so I offered to help out in any way I could with the Mobile closing. Heather took me up on my offer and I drove the 8 [...]

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8Apr2009 | Heather Vaughn | 1 comment | Continued
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Speuters for Primo and Tater- done!

Well,  today was Tater’s spay and Primo’s neuter. This is actually the fourth appointment we’ve had for Primo’s snip job…the first time, we completely forgot about the appointment. The second time, his blood didn’t clot in the pre-surgery blood testing so we had to run more blood panels and have them sent to Upstate Vet [...]

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8Apr2009 | Heather Vaughn | 0 comments | Continued
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Hey Lady…You missed the turn!!

Since Fishdog Kennels/Team Greyhound Racing left Birmingham Race Course in December of 2008, I thought our days of running down to the track to pick up adoption dogs were pretty much over. Last Saturday, we had one more run. Six Fishdoggies that had been sent to race at Gulf Greyhound were hauled back to Birmingham [...]

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6Apr2009 | Heather Vaughn | 0 comments | Continued
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No Answers for Bodhi

We finally heard back from the vet with test results from Cornell. Unfortunately, they can only tell us what he didn’t die from. It wasn’t Canine Influenza. It wasn’t poison. It wasn’t a trauma or injury. It wasn’t a tick disease. The only thing we know for sure is that his white blood cell count [...]

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5Apr2009 | Heather Vaughn | 2 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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