We are here!  Well busy weekend for me, as usual.  Got Green Lake Rocky out, he was the Duck's Unlimited raffle prize.  Born 1/16/04, so is 3 yrs old now.  He has one dew claw left unremoved, cuves out and upwards towards his face, GOTTA come off, but the quotes are anywhere from $300-500- for one stupid dew claw!  That's nuts.  I approached Duck's Unlimited for a donation, but of course, no was the answer.  I said how about STOPPING the madness then, no more puppy raffles...hahaha, big tall order on my part I'm sure....

Our new, nice boy, Rocky's pic is on our website!  What a big, solid, 65 lb male, very nice disposition, I have at least two lookers at him so far.  So gotta decide on that dew claw pretty fast... 

Note to self....always make sure toe nails are polished before getting foot in the picture, tehe.

Also worked the Dogs Deserve Better Chain off Sat AM. We had two news crews there.  There is link on my website: www.wgspr.com to Penny's interview. I think next year, we make it a bigger event in Milwaukee!  I made Miracle work it, but she mainly just supervised.  Then had to zip out to meet the canvas dude to get him busy making new canopy bags.  He suggested a GREAT durable fabric, so when he gets time, we are all set, cept for the bill, tehe.  Nice to have connections!   I'm working on bailing Jefferson Humane's Ricki this weekend, and that nice all liver male in IL, cuz outta no where came a guy who wants to foster to adopt from Chicago area...so having him checked out now.  Could have two coming in this weekend!   Gotta get back to work. 

I'm looking for a workaround, but for now if you'll remove the brackets and the number 1 (I tried to post them but it changes the characters here as well) from the file name of the picture it should display.  Just as a general rule, if you'll be uploading or linking the file, try to avoid spaces and characters other than alphanumeric in the file name.

Rick

Gotta be my lucky day, Haws in Waukesha vet will do Rocky's dew claw on Friday for about $50-  WHOOHOOO....in this "business" it's all about who you know, who knows who, and alot of BEGGING.  Have lookers planned to come see Scout and Rocky this weekend.  Rock may not be up to it much, and there will be healing time involved...but at least it will be done.  Lots of IL dogs on the ole euth schedule for today or this week, but I have one in WI I gotta get my hands on first.  Hopefully this weekend.  Tonight is the "BIG BANG" 60 full mins of fireworks show down at the lake front!  Which means, I"ll be drugging Maggie and Bella the second I get home tonight, and making sure they have safe places to go, cuz it will be loud even where I live.  And the anniversary of Kate's death is at 630 tomorrow AM.  I"m feeling it majorly, then compound that with the loss of my Tracker and it's all I can do to keep from sobbing every ten seconds...  But I'll live, I HAVE TO, too many dogs out there that need us right now.  May go take a run over by Kate's grave either tomorrow or on what would have been her 15th bday on the 10th.  All for now...   

Sarah's obit is on GSP Rescue of WI website today:

www.gsprescuewi.com/dogpics/braunes/bp_sara_1.jpg

Lisa -

How did the dogs do with the fireworks last night poor babies? Any news on Everett?  I wonder if the fireworks put him into hiding? 

I took a look at your site Lisa, it looks nice. Miracle's Corner is a hoot. She is so pretty and I am amazed how she is with those head peice's she wears LOL. They stay on and you can see, how she knows she looks good LMAO. You would never know her past looking at her now, she is really cute and so full of life. You can't help but crack a smile when you look at those picture's.

Dat's my girl!  She secretly hates me for slapping them things on her head, but I secretly KNOW everyone loves it, so she tolerates me!  tehe.  The knob head butted me right square in the nose last night, and I have a bruise on the bridge of my nose today, but I don't think it's broke.  Bet it hurt her as bad as it did me!

I talked to Josh today, he's pulling Evie's trap down. No sightings, no hits since before 4th of July, NO BIG SURPRISE, Everett is deathly afraid of storms and fireworks, so he's hunkered down somewhere.  SOOOOO, I gotta get down there, get fliers up again, keep it alive, cuz until we have an area again, there is no use baiting a trap that is only hit by racoons.

So we start all over again there.  I KNOW he's in the area, just hiding till it quiets back down.

AND, we pulled Jefferson Humane's Ricki today!  Meaning there are once again, no purebred GSPs in WI shelters as of today.  We did it again!  Clean, clean, clean.  The guy I had lined up for Mr. IL Liver Reggie, bailed.  So I'm back on the hunt now for a place appropriate to stash him.  IL is LOADED with GSPs!  

Gotta leave work in a bit to get bail Rocky out from vet, they took BOTH dew claws this AM. Guess he is doing OK.  So I gotta take him back to his foster home, who may just keep him.  He IS a really nice boy!  Rides like a dream in a vehicle.  Very laid back, & soft as can be. 

Found out today Purina accepted us into their "Rally for Rescue" partnership. I am not sure what all that means, but free food would be nice for starters!

My ex got my front porch gate on yesterday, turned out really nice!  So I'm hoping to get the thing stained tomorrow AM, before it gets too hot outside.  It's a cooker again here.  But I will not complain, cuz I hate the cold worse.

Have a great weekend gang.  

Before work this AM, I clipped flowers from my gardens and went to Kate's grave and just sat there and sobbed; been that way since Fourth of July.  That was the day she left us 2 yrs ago.  The pain is still so very real.  Drove thru Taco Bell at lunch just sobbing, the poor guy at the window didn't know what to make of this crazy lady....  No one understands, to them, it's "just a dog".  To me, she was my baby and never far from my mind.  I CAN snap myself outta it remembering her humping the boat anchor and have a chuckle.  I remember the time I thought she had an epileptic seizure, that turned out to be a panic attack over pizza!  And so many more goofy memories.  But when I get home tonight, I gotts slap on the happy face, cuz it was a year ago I adopted Miracle, so it's her one year anniversary.  Picked up the little Debbie's already to celebrate.  That crazy chick DOES make me smile all the time.  I am lining up the troops to start rehanging fliers for Evie this Sat AM.  I need the diversion right now anyhow.  And working on a ride for IL Reggie, the liver boy as long as I will be that close this Sat, if someone can get him to the WI border, he can stay with me for a while.  That shelter is way over crowded, and I don't want to see him go down.  Rocky's dew claw bandages were changed at the vet today, still bleedy, big ole stitches I'm told.  But it's not holding Rocky back at all his foster mom tells me.  We gotta take him back Friday for more bandage change and look see.  Then wait for the heat to pass so we can hunt test him.  Our other new kid, seems to have been a hunter according to his foster dad who has experience with GSPs.  And there is a teeny mix puppy in IL foster, I have lookers at.  She originally came from Arkansas. Should be easy placement when we find the right family.  On and on it goes....      

Once again PEOPLE problems. I'm so mad, I have nothing good to say right now, so with that, I'll say nothing at all.  Fliers for Evie go back up Sat AM.  Will keep you posted.... 

Awww that is nice, nothing like fresh flowers. I am sure Kate liked them.

I got tired just reading that!!!  I'm glad you got everything out on Evie and they are still seeing him.  I am still waiting to hear you have him back!

I think with some dogs normal is just something different   My super shy girl Izzie has come sooooo far.  She jumped up on a stranger last Friday and I nearly cried right there in the yard.  This is the same dog that had clearly never had human interaction, scaled my 6ft fence and we had to physically jump on in a ravine to catch.  I used to drag her room to room in a crate, block off all corners so she couldn't hide and she'd shake uncontrollably if I spoke to her.  I used to sit outside her crate and just talk, say the alphabet over and over and over to work on getting her desensitized to my voice.  I'd spend my lunch hour just rambling on to her.  And now a year later she jumped on a stranger!  She will never be normal, she will never be a dog that feels safe outside my home, her security comes from my dogs, my pack, me and my house.  But in those walls the confidence that has grown in her is incredible.  Bella will find a home like mine, a home like Troop found, where someone is there patiently waiting as they learn to return to the world of the living and trust humans again.

Is it possible that the abcesses indicate a general systemic infection since they are in different areas.  Possibly a good antibiotic would take care of it.