New dogs arrive!

Did you ever wonder what goes in to getting dogs to the Pacific Northwest for adoption? On Saturday we received eight new dogs into our adoption program from Arizona thanks to the help of one of the local owners and some great people to help transport them here.

In Arizona our friend Eric selected the dogs for us and all of their paperwork was pulled. This includes their registration papers, vaccination records and in some cases their racing records. The dogs are fed the night before they leave and are groomed in preparation for their trip.

On the morning of the trip (in this case Friday) they are loaded into the trailer. Although the trailer has heat and air conditioning every dog wore a coat to ensure that they were nice and comfortable for the trip. With two drivers the truck and trailer stopped only for gas and potty breaks, otherwise they drive through the night so they can get to their destination as soon as possible.

Upon arriving the dogs are unloaded by gender and allowed a nice long outing in the fenced exercise yard where they can answer nature's call and burn off a little pent up energy. Once they've settled down all the dogs are brought into the kennel, coats removed and given a good once over before being assigned their own little condo and given a big meal.

Bowls are collected, paperwork is reviewed and everyone takes a well-deserved nap!

Watch next week for pictures of the dogs on the blog as they are added to our website :)

Sunday - Welcome to the Kennel

Sundays are going to be our kennel welcome day where we announce new dogs into our adoption program. Unfortunately we have no new dogs this week but there will be further posts today to give you an idea of what format you can expect in the future.

As an aside, while new dogs will be posted here and on our website as they become available there is something that we all need to keep in mind - we try to set up our greyhounds and their families for success and the best way to do that is to know both as well as possible. Some dogs will thrive in a home with children and some will find them overwhelming, other dogs are suited to being only-dogs whereas others will do much better in a home with another dog (or another greyhound). We all get excited about the new dogs but we have to remember not to let our hearts rule our heads :)