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It has been 5 days since Burro the foster Greyhound arrived. She is about 1.5 years old, and a petite little girl who is scared of her own shadow. Welcome to our busy household!

Our biggest concern here was actually Argos. He is very mellow, and he adores Sophie, but can have a curmudgeonly ‘get-off-my-lawn’ attitude with the boisterous types. He tolerated our first foster, Hammer, but it wasn’t like they were BFFs.

Our adoption group coordinator brought Burro over on a Saturday afternoon. We cautiously introduced them. Sophie, beloved Sophie, welcomes all with open paws, so no worries there. And… happily, Argos was Mr. Mellow around the new arrival. This was great news!

Burro gravitated to Argos. He basically ignored her, choosing instead to lay on his favorite bed. That was OK. An hour later, all three dogs were hanging out like they had been together forever. Encouraging.

Then we took our first walk

It took me 10 minutes to go 10 yards. Burro, who may appear stubborn, was actually too terrified to move out of the fenced yard. I brought some yummy treats (she is a food hound!) to entice her. Argos and Sophie were beside themselves; a walk AND treats?! It was too good to be true. They enthusiastically and repeatedly showed Burro how yummy the treats were.

No go.

Finally, Burro had to check the treats out, she moved, but slowly. By now Sophie and Argos wondered if we would ever get going on the promised walk. Burro finally got over her reluctance, and off we went.

These photos are all from the first walk – a typical sunny, windy, warm, cold and rainy spring day.

Argos takes the lead (exuberant Sophie took her own path)

Walk Followup

We have had several walks since that first day, and I am happy to report that Miss Burro is now pushing her way to be first out the door and trots along on walks like her housemates.

She wasn’t in love with the coat I put on her for yesterday’s downpour, but she bravely went on. We had walking to do!

Related: Adopt the Internet

Remember the Invisi-Cat Shield?

I was talking about this amazing invention on Twitter recently, how I have missed several shots of Quincy, who activates the Invisi-Cat shield daily in hopes of snaring a dog. (Credit to Barnie for inventing the original Invisi-Cat Shield.)

Twitter pal tjw003 said “love invisicat shield pics!” — this one is for you.

Quincy’s new item of interest: our new foster dog Burro

This caused much snickering from the humans.

In other news

Somebody got a new dog bed…

Much happiness ensued.

We had a busy day today. We met someone new who needs to learn the ropes.

Barnie remembers a similar incident, and shares his perspective.

We love you, Barnie. ♥

Last year we fostered Hammer the Greyhound, who went on to find a perfect forever family (Hammer archive).

This post is a sneak peek at “Burro,” a young brindle female Greyhound we are fostering for our Greyhound adoption group. We just met her today. Love!

More details and story to come…

March is here! Spring break is coming up, and summer is around the corner.

Right?

Are we still on track for that? Recent weather has me wondering…

Feeling cooped up...

Heavy snow sliding off metal roof = good.

Brrrrrrr

A study in textures

These overhangs are very cold when they fall on the back of your head/neck. Just sayin'

Sophie loves the snow!

Argos loves the snow, but in short bursts.

This was not one of them.

Here is one of them. Argos loves the snow!

The geese are busy in the background – adding in their commentary.

Sophie scores a touchdown!

Argos favorite toy is this one (last photo). He only gets it for play time. It is the squeal-y ball that Sophie loves to play keep away with.

With tons of snow, but wind chills at -16F outside, Sophie has not been her usual Snow Loving Dog self.

She now sees why Barnie is so good at catching a sunbeam when he can…

The "original two," Sophie and Barnie soak up some rays.

Sophie always finds something to sniff. She even paws a little space in the snow around her nose for enhanced sniffing. Argos then barges in, trying to figure out what is so darn interesting. I wrote about my dogs’ natural talents (ha!) yesterday on K9Cuisine, and thought I would post this photo of them “in action.”

Seriously? Interesting sniffs in freshly fallen snow?

The photo doesn’t show it, but we had a big blizzard. Lots of wind, so some areas are shallow, other places have 3-4 foot drifts. This, after fairly balmy temperatures lately. Today, 9F and dropping. It is the -9F wind chills that make it hard to breathe out there. brrrr.

That big lump is a drift!

How you position yourself at office meetings says a lot.

Earlier….

Oh my. The sun really brings out the full hairy-ness of the dog bed. Someone needs to wash that thing!