Archive for October, 2007
Monday, October 29th, 2007
So NOT Ready
I can’t believe what I did today. See . . . there’s this face that’s been smiling at me for a couple of weeks . . . she’s on the county’s web site. I started thinking about it. I couldn’t find anything on their web site that said how long they keep a dog before [...]
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Divorce Court
Yesterday, Lew fell in love with an armload of baby beagles. I don’t think I’m going to let him live.
Today, Lew accused me of becoming a hoarder — just because I want to rescue three dogs from the pound, excuse me, county animal shelter.
A friend, who has been quite successful at breeding Medical Alert Service [...]
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Serendipity
That business with Ellen DeGeneres certainly came at the right time for us. Since the poodle people didn’t say why we were rejected, I assumed it was the “you ain’t getting her back” clause I added. After that, I reworded the paragraph, explaining that since she was to be trained as a Service Dog . [...]
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Flair
We haven’t been focusing just on poodles. This is Flair. She’s a Sheltie mix — the right size and age. We found her separately, emailing each other the link to her web page.
Flair had one big disadvantage. She was going to be available for adoption at PetsMart yesterday. Not being ready to adopt, we decided [...]
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Denied
Carolina Poodle Rescue wrote:
Sorry we will not be able to help you.
Huh? That’s it? What, you didn’t like the “Ellen DeGeneres Clause?” We’re too old? Our fence not high enough? I sent a three page letter instead of filling out your form? Upset because we killed our dogs instead of letting them die suffering? Offended [...]
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
I’ve Gone Off the Deep End!
Finally, after all these years, I admit it — I’ve lost my mind. I know that you all have known that for a long time. But now — I know I’ve gone too far.
See . . . its like this . . . I was just looking — just looking. I wasn’t serious. I was [...]
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
In the News
We’re famous! Well . . . kinda . . . sorta . . .
The Charlotte Observer story is at http://www.charlotte.com/someck/story/318362.html
If you’d like to start your own blog, a few (of the many) free spots are:
https://www.blogger.com
http://www.wordpress.com
http://www.livejournal.com
There was one thing Kara left out of the story — I don’t write about everything in my blog. I don’t write things I [...]