Weekend wrap up

News and updates:

Tasha is acting surprisingly frisky and has not bothered the 20 or so staples in her side or the half dozen on the top of her head.

Teddy is doing well too. She is now leaving his crate open because he doesn't leave it anyway. But he did go to the door and whine to get her attention when he needed out. That's pretty impressive for a dog who has rarely been indoors. When he comes back in, he heads directly for his crate (his comfort zone). He isn't playing with Cooper yet, but he will, he did so when they were both here. He's just not relaxed enough yet to play. Perhaps the best news is that he's pretty much ignoring the cats and is intimidated by the indoor cats. No verdict yet, but things are going well so far.

Buck and I did a home visit today. Great home, nice folks, he was remarkably well mannered indoors and didn't even bother getting up when a cat popped out from behind the furniture and surprised us all. He will be a good dog for someone.

No word recently about Buddy. Usually no news is good news, but I'll check on him tomorrow.

We have 9 fosters this evening, same as the start of the weekend and this is probably my headcount for Thanksgiving. At least I need to make arrangments for 9 fosters and 5 of our own dogs. Next weekend will be mostly spent working ahead for the following work week because I need to cram 3 days of work into Monday so we can head for Kentucky on Tuesday the 23rd.

I'm going to try to find a foster home for Tasha while we are gone (taking Zachary with us because of his dietary needs), but failing that, we'll take Tasha to Kentucky and board Zachary here. A couple people have offered to take in a foster and I think I'll try to get both Buck and Bubba into other foster homes while we are gone. The rest of them I'll split up between two different boarding kennels.

[Pics: Top right: Teddy as a pup, I fell for that face and kept him instead of returning him to CASPCA after the ringworm cure. Bottom left: Tasha, as a young dog, from her first time in foster care.]