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ARCHX Siren's Eleusinian Mystery CD CD-H RA RL3 RLV RL2X RL1X CGC TT
AKA Luce. Eeevil Red Dog. Boss lady. Heart dog. First American Pit Bull Terrier ever to be nationally ranked in APDT Rally.
Siren's Shiitake Happens
AKA Mushroom. AKA ShroomD. The fungus among us. Grandma-lover. Bed-hogger. Official Zombie Protection Dog.
Orion Never Seen Blue RA RL1 CL1-R CL1-F FMX
AKA Steve. Flyball ninja. Mud magnet. Stranger Danger alert system. Official Hiking Buddy. Coconut Classic Dream Team member 2011.
Orion Go For Launch
AKA Bean. Mission Specialist. Mouth that roars.
Tag Archives: shelters
Choosing wisely.
I was at the shelter yesterday, walking past cage after cage of pit bulls, and I know in my heart that I need to get a pit bull as my next dog, but the thought of finding another sport dog, … Continue reading
YCSPCA Reachin’ out, doin’ it right.
I have a soft spot already for the YCSPCA, because they were the people who saved my Harvey, who took him from a bad situation, sheltered him for over a year, adopted him out, took him back, and then bent … Continue reading
To the shelter, in the face of Luce’s 8th birthday
To the staff and volunteers of the HSHA, In December of 2003 I walked into your shelter and picked out a little red bat-eared pit bull from the long rows of dogs who were equally lovely and adoptable. Even today, … Continue reading
Steve: Professional model.
A little while ago, I entered Steve in the local shelter’s calendar contest. It was completely on a whim, last minute. I sent in this picture: because how can anybody say no to a cute fuzzy dog with a pink … Continue reading
Purebreaded puppy at a dog event.
Yesterday a friend and I took Steve down toward Baltimore to meet up with my sister for Dogfest 2009, a big dog event and fundraiser for the Baltimore Humane Society. I don’t know much about their organization beyond that my … Continue reading
The high cost of pit bull surrender.
It’s not often that dog-related issues leave me speechless. Frustrated, sure. Enraged, occasionally. But dumbfounded? Not as often as perhaps they should. It has taken me a week to write this post, because I’m having a hard time getting past … Continue reading
To the HSMO, who is doing it right.
Thank you. Seriously. Thank you so much, from the bottom of my pit-bull-loving heart. PetConnection has a lovely blog post today about how the Humane Society of Missouri is taking care of all the bust dogs that they’re currently sheltering. … Continue reading
Mean dogs used as prison sentries.
There’s an interesting article on the MSNBC website about a prison in Idaho that uses death row shelter dogs as sentry dogs at a medium-security prison. All of their dogs are animals who would have been destroyed by the shelter … Continue reading
Love song for an old dog.
There are times when I still miss my Harvey terribly. A week or so ago, people on an online dog discussion group that I read were talking about how their old dogs have special Old Dog Rules compared to the … Continue reading
I killed a shelter dog.
So yesterday I was reading about Joe Biden’s new puppy on the Pet Connection blog and of course there got to be discussion in the comments about how he should have saved a dog instead of purchasing a puppy, and … Continue reading