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| Ray adopted Scout! All summer long I've been walking dogs past Ray's "Invictus Forge" blacksmith artist's shop with the dogs, and he's never really been interested in any until he saw Scout. |
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| You wouldn't think a six and a half foot guy in a kilt would like a dog like this, but it was love at first sight! Ray will be taking Scout, now Zip, to his shop every day so we'll be able to see him any time. A match made in heaven~ |
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| aka "Mr. Blockhead" looks good in any light. He was in the mood for posing today, I didn't even have any treats! |
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| Daffodils are blooming . . . |
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| Chickadees are building nests . . . |
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| Pansies are looking good . . . |
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| And Prancer is fattening up for his trip to the West Coast! |
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| Helga was my first foster for Mike, and we both loved her so much she had to become part of our family. Her favorite song was an old Neil Young song "Cinnamon Girl" which she insisted the words be changed to "Cinnamon Chow". As it goes, I wanna live with a cinnamon chow, I could be happy the rest of my life with my cinnamon chow! |
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| This is the day I picked Helga up from the Fulton County Shelter. She looks a little stressed, but I see a sparkle in her eye, she knows she is being saved. |
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| Helga loved our marshes and took it upon herself to have a "spa day". If only I had my camera with me. She sat in the middle of the marsh which was a big mud pit and it must have felt so cool and refreshing, but by time I got back with my camera she was coming out. This is the end result! |
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| The redheads were best friends! This is Helga and Geisha. |
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| I have made such wonderful friends at the rescue who understand what it feels like to lose a beloved pet. We only had Helga a short nine months. It seems so unfair. Thank you to family and friends who cared enough to send beautiful flowers, cards and a book I'm sure I will read over and over again because I know I will be going through this the rest of my life . . . I will always have a family of chow-chows! |
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| I found a way to keep my tree up by celebrating Chinese New Years in honor of my chows and all of my friends' chows. The main photo of my blog is my friend Jacqui's chow, Kashi, enjoying a ride around the neighborhood! He is a smooth blue chow. Don't you just want to kiss him?? |
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| I knew someday I would get to use the vintage lanterns I got on ebay. |
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| The koi are food party picks, but they work great as tree ornaments, don't you think? |
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| Same goes for the dragons, even though it is the year of the snake. |
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| I have made a lot of wonderful friends at Chap's Chow Rescue and we all have our chow-chows in common. I hope they are lasting friendships even though one may move back to Boston, another to Holland, and me to North Carolina. Happy Chinese New Years to Panda, Wong, Bamboo, Geisha, Lord Roman, Princess, Helga, Suzie Wong, Mia, Chutney, Kashi, Blake, JoJo, the list goes on! |
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| This is Mojo, Frisky's new companion. |
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| This is Rich & Pat McMahon, Frisky's new owners. We were surprised to see Rich again, we had met him doing a transport of puppies last year and didn't realize it was him that was adopting Frisky. Both dogs got along from the start. Frisky jumped in the back seat of their Jeep ready to go, so happy she didn't even look back at me and Bob. |
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| Frisky never stopped smiling or wagging her tail. She was only days away from being euthanized, and I think she knew how lucky she was thanks to Julie! |
