Kacey goes to Orlando!

Flight Video by Amy Parish

Kacey, a Kai mix, after months of being in our rescue and going to Frogs to Paws for training is now on his way to his adopters in Orlando, Florida!

Mike is flying with Dr. Muller in his plane to Pensacola, a little hurricane named Sandy is stopping them from flying to Orlando, but in Pensacola they will pick up a new boy for the rescue, Zeus, a terrier for another rescue group, and a pitty puppy.  Have a safe trip, guys!!

Treasures at the Recycling Center!

At the recycling center I spied a lady ready to toss a huge piece of spatterware into the metal bin. Next thing you know, Bob was putting it in the back of my car.  Smelled like something had died in it, covered with muck from her barn.

A good cleaning and it looks great, very little rust and no holes.

The gray is hard to come by, and just look at those spatters!  This is a huge piece, about two feet across.  Finally, a reward for recycling for soooo many years!!

Bear Alert at Lake on Second Basin!!

(Click on Photo to Enlarge) Rusty and Rita were out for an evening ride on a pontoon boat touring the lake when Rusty said to Rita "Do you see what I see"?  Yes, there was a big black bear taking a swim in the lake.  Luckily, Rita had her camera with her, but didn't get it out in time to get a photo of the bear in the water.

She followed the bear up the dock and went around the next boathouse's garage to let the people there know a bear was there and when she turned the corner the bear was 10 feet in front of her .  She said "What a shock, but how exciting!"  The bear was on Dr. Muller's dock.  Maybe he heard Dr. Muller does free dental work for bears??

Rita thought the bear to be old, he was black with a brown face and weighing about 300 to 400 pounds, at least by the size of his footprint.  Guess he wanted to take a bath before his long winter's nap!!

Rescue Pet Photography Webinar

Just finished a photography webinar given by Austin photographer Teresa Berg, www.teresaberg.com/blog.  It was wonderful and gave lots of tips for photographing our rescues, which I am going to start putting into practice tomorrow in the fenced area behind BAC.  Let's see if this really works!!
Her book is "Dog Shots" and her Facebook page is Shelter Chic.  There is also more information on photography at www.focusonrescue.com and www.heartsspeak.org where professional photographers will mentor non-professionals like myself to help with shelter pet photography if one happens to be in your area.  I am going to check that out and see if I can do that.  Anyone in the group that wants to do the same or help me with the dogs when photographing will be greatly appreciated!!

Fall Adoption Event!

Dogs Available For Adoption from Chap's Chow Rescue. This is Roman & Princess, a bonded pair who we have been fostering for the past two months.

This is Willow & Lee, a bonded pair who have a potential adopter in Macon.

This is Leo, a senior male, may be deaf, who is being fostered by Amy.

This is sweet, little Cody, five year old male, needs foster now!

This is Bamboo, senior male, needs foster now!

This is Byron, American Bulldog, master died in sleep, needs foster now!

Here are some of our success stories.  This is Teddy, who now lives in Montana!

This is Leroy Brown, our oldest senior.  I delivered him to Kim in Union City last Saturday!  Hooray for Leroy, now Yudah!

This is Helga, and we adopted Helga after fostering her.

This is Geisha.  She now lives with Annaleise in Thomaston, GA.

This is Jethro who is now living on the beach in Portland, Oregon!

 

 See more adoptable dogs and success stories on our Facebook page at Chow Rescue of Georgia and come see the dogs in person Sunday, October 14th from 2:00 to 5:00 pm at Loving Hands Animal Clinic in Alpharetta!

Today "Rasta" Nick went to the Rainbow Bridge. Rest in peace you sweet old man!

Can Nick Be Saved?

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Nick was in Rutherford, NC, and they were ready to put him down. Mike sent out an alert to see if anyone could pull this poor guy who was left by his owner and two weeks later found by a neighbor starving and dehydrated.  There was a house in NC that Bob and I had been thinking about looking at, so what better time to make the four-hour drive than now so that we could save Nick's life.  He is now at BAC, groomed, bathed, and sleeping on quilts.  Mike is feeding him five times a day awaiting test results to see if Nick will some day be a healthy boy that someone can adopt.  I must say, I have never seen a dog that matted or smelled that bad!  It was a very long four-hour drive, but Nick was smiling the whole way.  He could only stand for a few minutes because he was so weak.  His eyes are sunken in from malnutrition.  "Rasta" Nick, we hope you can be saved!

As for the house, well, this is it. In Gillette Woods, NC, a community from the 1930s, a place where writers, actors and artists made their vacation homes in the same vein as Carmel, California.

Notice the mill stones set in the ground, and these are throughout the property.  It sits on three acres and is surrounded with old gardens and statuary.

There are numerous stone patios around the house.  The log building in the background is the garage.

This is the old copper sign for the home, which is called "The Log House".

Allen and Bob are checking out the massive stone fireplace. A replica of the fireplace at the Grove Park, but on a much smaller scale!

The kitchen is small, but I love it.  Out the windows by the sink you see Hogback Mountain.

All the windows have stone ledges. It is details like this that make this house so charming.

This is the living room.  The fireplace is two-sided.  Window seats are on both sides of the living room.  The floors are old heart pine in varying widths and are pegged.  If we sanded these floors and put on a coat of wax, they would be beautiful.

This Tiffany lamp is in the sitting room, which would be a great place to view birds.  I can't believe they would not take this out and sell it, but everything stays with the house.  There are many stained glass windows throughout.

Fireplace on the living room side.

Cupola on the garage and moss on the roof.

Another mill stone used as a table on another stone patio out in the gardens.

Door to the kitchen, another stone patio.

The doors in this home are all handmade and Dutch doors.  Notice the iron scorpion door knocker!  I found a scorpion in my kitchen last week on top of the stove!  Scary!!

There are some drawbacks to the place.  This is a neighboring house.  Bob took a walk down because he saw the neighbors, an older couple that just moved there from Northern VA.  They were very nice, but the house is too close for my liking.  I like to know there are neighbors down the road, but not right next door. This is one thing that we have to think about.

Another mill stone with a gargoyle holding the house numbers.  Things like this are scattered all through the gardens.  The azaleas in spring must put on a show.  There were huge specimen trees, magnolias and hemlocks.  Ferns and mahonias everywhere, but no hydrangeas, but I have a lot of them I'm taking with me.  Oh, yes, there is a lot of ivy.  Ivy is everywhere.  Another problem with this place is not a lot of sun.  In order to have my organic farm I would have to take down some trees and terrace some of the woods, and I am not a fan of disturbing something that has been there since the 1930s.  This house is our backup to building a new one on the lake.  The good thing about this house is it's only 7 minutes to the boathouse.  This week will tell.  Bob will be talking to Nature Conservancy about a land swap, and if all works out, we will be starting our new house, but if all fails, this just may be our new home!