Two adoption week last week, one was our new little puppy!  I'm sorry, I haven't been around, we are moving our office, so I have a whole machinery show room to pack up, etc....very time consuming.  I'm done Xmas shopping, or outta cash, so that is it....  got pkg off to Florida for my family there Monday.  Another to my friend who moved up north. Supposed to meet my sister for lunch Sat, it's a two hour road trip one way to meet 1/2 way, so depending on weather....we'll see if that happens.  Weather guy says MORE snow tomorrow and Friday.  I think we have enough for now....but this IS Wisconsin...so you never know.  Gotta get back at it...

Holiday was good, how about you?  We nabbed three legger Trinity from Spenser, IA shelter yesterday, working on a male this week from WI shelter.  Thank you Lord for the volunteers enough to keep doing this!

Got this cute surprise from GSP-Fan for the kids for Xmas!  How cool is that?  Thanks so much Rebecca!

AND!  I got to meet Kentucky Angie!  Whose been in IL packing up her grandma's house, so she drove to my place Sat and after, 5-6 years of knowing each other thru shorthairs, I finally got to meet her in the flesh!  Was awesome!

Angie has two gsps!

James Dean &

The Amazing Miss Miracle, and I (of course) wish you ALL a Happy New Year!

We pulled in dog number one for 2009 on New Years Day!  Freedom come on ANY DAY for dogs ya know....  working on a bunch of home visits, for adoption, a couple wanna be fosters...and taking down Xmas stuff.  NEXT is the show!  Gonna be a busy month!

Been crazy busy...my office is moving, so there is stuff to be moved, palletized, a machine to get outta here, etc...  we have our big show end of the month, so first meeting to put together our recall training demo is Sat. Trying to get a dog from Park Falls to Racine WI this weekend, not looking that good yet...trying truckers now.  I already have $100 into her vet work.  Birdie starts heartworm treatment tomorrow.  Ching, ching....  so I appologize if I can't get here real often till Feb...just busy, that's all. 

Sorry, warned ya, I been busy!  We got office moved last week, still tons of unpacking to do.  This Sat is our big pet expo, with us on the main stage for recall training demo at 330-415PM.  I just found out they only have hand held microphones, and how can you possibly demo reeling on a check cord with only one hand?  Dang, I gave them plenty of heads up to get hands free mic's.  I started packing stuff last night.  I have an adopter in MI wanting to return Scout for weeks/months now, and now he wants me to sign HIS rendition of our surrender form?  Or he's not returning the dog!  So I had to get our rescue attorney involved.  The guy is in violation of our adoption contract I find out, cuz he has not had any of the dogs shots updated since he's had him...and they were due last Sept.  I called his vet to get specifics this AM.  So NOW I may have to call the cops in MI to take our dog away from him!  Good lord... never fails, always some drama...  Here is yet another reason why I do not like out of state adoptions, cuz how can I check on my dog now?  How can I get him back now?  Always something...

If you want to see Miracle's Dogbook on Facebook:  http://apps.facebook.com/dogbook/profile/view/5608254

I also started Miracle's Fan Club there!  http://apps.facebook.com/dogbook/group/view/42638

Talk more when I have more time...

We were provided with chairs!  But who had time to sit?  tehe....  this weekend is Valentine's KissAThon at Petco with the Amazing Miss Miracle, signing autographs and promoting her fan club on Facebook!  As well as adoptables.  Should be fun!  We got Scout back from adopter in MI last weekend, he goes to the vet to get shots updated tomorrow and a good teeth cleaning. He came back at least 100 lbs! I'll see him on Sat for the first time in over a year and 1/2 since he was adopted.  He is a big boy to begin with...but now fat too?  tehe, our boy.... loves his treats!  He'll be at the right place, at Petco!  Think Douglas will find his home this weekend, and possibly Roscoe too.  Then we'll be almost outta dogs again.  We have Sierra sitting in foster up north, and talk about a money pit.  She's the one that came in with some tumor on her foot, and a butcher vet up north removed that, thought it may have been cancer, but never tested anything.  Then of course, the foot got so infected, so the money had to be dished out again for rounds and rounds of antibiotics and salves, gauze, and those supplies.  And she has Lymes, so we are treating that now.  Yesterday, she had to go back, cuz a new sore developed on that foot, and we had it xrayed, only a bb in there...so typical of most rescue dogs I see, that require xrays, they all seem to have some shot in them in all sorts of places.  As long as the shot does not affect an organ, they leave them in.  I'd say we have almost $500- into Sierra, and she is a border senior, so I can only ask our senior pricing for adoption fee.  So we'll loose on her, but no biggie, that's the way it goes.  So far no hits.  There are a couple sitting in WI shelters, both are dog aggressive, so I'd need very experienced handlers to foster those IF we take them on.  Placing dogs like that is hard...and we have to be very careful where we stick our money these days.  You'd think this is all about saving the dog, but there is so much more, like finances, supplies, networking, volunteers, etc...  gets downright exhausting and is all consuming most the time.  I gotta new cell phone finally, and a new plan, so now I can text and have unlimited long distance.  Needed that!  Well, I'm off and running again.     

Yeah, two dog adoption day today!  Douglas goes home tonight, and Birdie is going home about now, finally.  It's a very cold day here in WI, wind chills back.  Had a tad of snow last night, nothing like predicted.  Working on the next two in now.  Owner surrender Penny comes in on Sat.  And I have one in shelter a bit north of us, female, dog aggressive, we are gonna take a shot at.  Just gotta get her a ride.  And Sierra is finally all healed up. Have a looker at her now.  These folks would be perfect, but they may be getting cold feet, because of her age.  Drives me crazy....maybe because I'd rather have all the old dogs of the world, then a young pup? I dunno.  Everyone has their reasons.  We did Petco last Sat, for Vday.  That was a hit!  Miracle was all decked in her pink, she worked it for first couple hours, then hit a doggie bed and didn't move, she was done.  Scout and Douglas only wanted to stand by the ferret and mice cages to stalk them.  So funny.  Well, I gotta get back to work, just thought I'd give you a quick update.  I'm working on lots of shows for the next few months and another hunt test day.  busy, busy... 

Ok, so just when you think you can have a quiet weekend to catch up on housework?  haha, wrongola....I gotta call Friday PM from a WI shelter who had a seized abuse case there, needed to disappear quick.  So I picked up a lady interested in adopting, and we went on a road trip...to just about the spot Everett was last seen...all our fliers are down, no sightings of course, so I plan to get back there with more fliers in the next couple weeks, see if we get any hits...then we made it to the shelter, and grabbed our boy.  He is very underweight, guess the neighbors called the cops cuz the guy was beating the piss outta the dog all the time, so the seized the dog from him, laid hefty fines on him, etc...  He is a really nice boy, only about 2, other then being very thin, and guardy of his food and treats and stuff, he's really a very calm, nice boy!  He freaked Jim out and would have wanted to take him on, but I intervened a couple times and put Mr. new guy in his place nicely...and he was called off easily.  Miracle wanted to make friends with him, but my impression was he was probably an only dog, was not pack socialized, he did not really know how to play with my dogs.  So she stayed in her bathroom by the heat duct, and guarded her stash in there, Jim just stayed outta his way, and he slept quietly in a crate over night.  Poor boy has a liquid shits, he ate all the immonium AD I had in the house, and I cooked up some rice for him.  Stress I'm sure.  He goes in for rest of his vetwork/neuter/hw testing, etc...Tues.  Will probably be going home with Dianna in a couple weeks.  She is PERFECT for him to gain his confidence back.  Planning to haul the dogs decked out for St. Patty's day to Petco again, people love that!  Roscoe went home end of last week, for a trial, waiting to hear back on how that is going, but no complaints yet.  We took in a black lab/gsp mix, Paris, who is simply gorgeous, but can she run!  So she's in ecollar training now.  She knows her name, she knows what come is...just choosing to not listen.  And Scout's foster folks shaved 10 lbs off him already!  Yeah...I put new pix of him up website today, as well as cute ones of Penny girl, the cat killer.  So all is well....

I do not believe this, just typed you all a huge chapter, and bam, it never uploaded....I do not have time to do it all over again.  Basically it's been nuts, I got dogs coming and going, mainly coming.  We are broke as they get, and the phone never stops ringing.  I got folks offering to foster, but only a male who is potty trained, or only a female who is potty trained, no aggressive dogs; this or that....so this weekend alone I have three dogs I have to move and no one will help.  So by Sunday I may have 5-6 dogs in my house!  Blow my brains out now, save me!  The good news is we will be on TV again 4/23 to promote our Super Rally (Purina Pro Plan Rally to Rescue) for 4/25 at Petco parking lot....first big outdoor event.  So I can't think about much other then that for now.  We do have some home visits happening this weekend.  I have some new wanna be fosters, but they are too far away to check out & to take advantage of our vet deals locally.  So in essence, cost us too much to have them fostered too far away.  We pulled one from MN shelter last week, he needed the works.  Had two in for horrid ear infections at top dollar in the last two weeks. One tore up two other dogs yesterday, gotta move her figure out what trips her trigger....never ends...