We’ve been fighting the Caddyshack war, also known as the running of the moles, for quite some time. Finally, last week Tara won the title of Whippet Mole Slayer and caught the little bugger.
Today I came home mid-day from the soccer tourament to give the dogs some quality outside time. I checked my email and went [...]
It is funny, how the world works. Sometimes the tragic, the near disaster, can drive us apart, and sometimes it deepens our understanding of each other and our lives. Every once in a while you get those whacks upside the head that explain “why”. If you’re lucky, you get them before it’s too late.
On Monday [...]
Yesterday at about 5:30 Tara managed to get out of the yard. I noticed that only Morgan and Nike were inside on the couch and went looking and she was just gone. We have six foot chain link fence and all the gates were shut. Nick and I immediately canvassed the neighborhood on foot and [...]
Puppies eat everything. They’re a bit like teen-age boys in that regard. Everything goes in the mouth. Somehow that doesn’t sound quite right, does it.
Nike famously removed not just the toilet paper from the roll and ran through the house with it, he dismantled the entire mechanism from the wall leaving me to not just [...]
I am a lover of whippets, but not a breeder. I don’t have a “kennel name”, I don’t have famous dogs. But I’ve been watching this breed with an eagle eye since 1994 when I bought my first whippet from an ad in the paper. (Don’t do this). I embroiled myself in the race dog/show [...]
Today we’re welcoming a new addition to the household. Whimsy’s Swiftsure Pyrat Pistol came home with me last night. Also known more commonly to his fans as Morgan the Brave. He’s a beautiful, beautiful whippet puppy. It has been eight years since I had a baby puppy. Amazing how much you forget, and how much [...]
Anyone out there got a whippet puppy?
Beware.
Ya spend a fortune on chew toys, and what do they want to play with?
In the years PD (pre-divorce) I used to take my two youngest whippets out for exercise every afternoon after work along a peaceful river dike. Sometimes I walked the two mile trail along the river, and the dogs ran loose the equivalent of ten miles along with me, and sometimes I attached both dogs to [...]