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My heart is in the Highlands,
my heart is not here,
My heart is in the Highlands a chasing the deer.
Robert Burns
Well they ma y chase the deer in their hearts, but no luck in
reality. Their chasing is limited to "bunnies" and only
non-living ones at that. These are what drive them to their
divine madness. Most of these are the white plastic kind (lures)
either at events or at home. They long to chase the the fluffy
long tailed ones (cats and squirrels) but are not allowed
to those any more than the deer...or even the real hare that they
occasionally see while on walks now that they are in the wilderness.
They must contend with the plastic ones and the stuffed ones that don't
run but can be flung around the house and killed when the madness
reaches a peak! These latter are also good for tormenting each other
into further madness by trying to keep them away from the other.
And for occasional indoor fetch with the humans, that Bran
(the Greybrador Retriever) loves so much.
We adopted Irony on
June 18, '98 from Greyhound
Placement Service after a long canineless wait. To check out
her story and more pictures click on her picture or her name. We lost
her to l iver disease on August 18,
04 and will miss her always.
On Feb 6 ,'99 we brought Bran
from GPS to foster with us. Well, it didn't work out......because on
May 12 we drove back to GPS and signed the adoption papers!
We lost him suddenly in March of 2008, exactly one year to
the day that we lost our horse Saoradh.
Since moving to Colebrook NH we are no longer
involved in LGRA or SCA coursing, which you will see mentione d on their pages. We also
aren't really doing much in the way of "meet and greet" either, but
keep looking for possible venues up here.
On March 22, 2003 we finally made another trip to
Goffstown and adopted Scolaighe. She was a
wonderful addition, mellow and cuddly. She became ill several years
ago, something causing her brain to swell, but remained lovey and
cuddly so we cared for her while she seemed to be happy until it was
time to say good-bye in Decem ber of 2009.
In July of 2004 we parted from our hound-only
ways and got a Border Collie/Australian Shepherd/Chow mix puppy. We
wanted a "working pet" and someone offered us the puppy so we went for
it. .You can click on his photo or name to meet Gleann.
After the loss of Iro ny and then Bran, and other losses in
our life, we finally were able to adopt another Greyhound on November
25, 2009. We couldn't handle knowing we were going to lose Scolaighe
without some new life in our house. Our pack coloration also
diversified again with the addition of Ņrlaith,
a lovely fawn girl. She's yet another bounced "loser" who has fit right
in very quickly.
After we lost Scolaighe, we started thinking
about adding to our pack again. So January 30, 2010, Aaron and Ņrlaith
went on down to GPS and picked up a loser buddy of hers, now known as Cł Mór.So
we are back to three. But always debating about room for more.
That
debate, of course, gets intervened when a friend notes that a dog is in
need of a home. Sometimes the dog isn't what we have in mind, but that
doesn't mean he's not perfect. This was the case when a friend of a
friend was looking for a home for 10 year old  Sachairi, who has happily joined our pack on
Black Friday, 2011.
In part because we've been less active with
hound activities, we don't update as much. We do occassionally share
tales and pic spam of the hounds at our blog
We also have a page of photos of more than one together, which I try to update on
occassion.
The new place means we now FINALLY
have a fence for the hounds to run in and we don't have to look for
dog-friendly areas to do ritual (we have a permanent ritual site
even...where Irony, Bran and Scolaighe are now buried). The house
even allows for a bit more space for chasing about "killing the
stuffies." Of course, it means we meet fewer people on our walk...often
none at all, which is devastating for such attention hounds. But the
occasional sighting of moose, deer, fox, and even BUNNIES helps comfort
them. ~;)
Don't
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