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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:11:52 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Fwd: RE: Camp out at Pace Bend

Susan,
Here are the pictures that we took of our camping trip
to Pace Bend. We took these pictures
watching the sun sink into the hills behind the lake.
She looks pretty in all of them.
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2/2007
Bryce came into our lives this past December, after we
had recovered enough from losing our golden of 11
years to cancer.
While the two dogs share being very attractive, they
couldn't be more different from one another.
Bryce doesn't think that she can swim and she is not
too sure about the whole fetch thing, sometimes
bringing the ball back and sometimes not. Very unlike
the ball obsessed, swimming beast that that was Casey.

But she is a world class sniffer and the greatest
tracker in her own mind. She apparently missed her
calling as a DEA drug dog.
She loves to go to the doggy park and play with other
dogs, and she gets along fairly well with our
cat, Abby.
Enough so that Abby decided that she should sleep with
Bryce on her bed. But Abby is a bed hog and kept
stealing the whole thing, so Abby sleeps in the garage
now. Hey, Bryce needs her beauty rest!
Her all time favorite thing is to go on walks. She
whines under my home office door, since I am her
designated leash holder. This only starts at about
4:30 as our time to walk is 5pm.
Luckily we live near a greenbelt with a few miles of
trail to keep her busy sniffing and tracking to her
heart's content.

We lost our beloved airedale, zelda, in january and knew we needed a
companion for our riley...a friend told us about GRR and our journey
began.....we fell in love with the pictures of Sadie and were so happy to
hear that she was available....in the short week she has been with us she
has taught us about retrievers over terriers, how to love a big girl and
that at 2 you are still a puppy...we have renamed her skipper and are so
pleased to have her as part of our family......now that her final heartworm
test is negative we plan to enroll her in school...thank you so much for
bringing our girl home to us..............jenny, brian and riley

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From: Scott & Maryellen

Date: 2/4/2007 10:19:28 AM

Subject: Re: GRR Adoption

I just wanted to give you an update on our adoption of Shane. I tell ya, we

just instantly fell in love with him the moment we met him! After spending

just a few minutes with him we knew he was just perfect for our family. He

has such a sweet, gentle temperament and he's so smart. We just couldn't be

happier.

He seems to be adjusting nicely. We can tell he's a little confused right

now. We think he is missing his wonderful foster family, but he's been

eating just fine and getting livelier and more playful with us each hour

that goes by. The boys keep asking if they can take him for a walk, so he's

already been on 4 walks since last evening. He really loves that. Andrew

discovered how truly strong Shane is when he spotted a Daschund down the

street this morning. He dragged Andrew along for the ride! Andrew was just

laughing and smiling the whole time.

We've also been playing fetch with him, and to show just how smart he is,

the first time he went running for the ball he went sliding across our

laminate floor. Well the very next time, just as he got to that floor, he

changed his footing immediately and he was able to get the ball without

slipping and sliding. We were quite impressed.

He did seem to have a hard time finding a place to sleep last night. He kind

of wandered throughout the house trying out different spots, but he finally

settled on sleeping in our son Andrew's bed. Andrew just loved that! They

are like two best buds already...a boy and his dog. It's very heartwarming

to see that relationship forming.

Anyway, I just wanted to thank you and everyone involved with GRR. I have

been so impressed every step of the way with how friendly and committed all

the volunteers have been. Pam & Dean were just a delight. Daniel, our Home

Visitor was wonderful as well. You have a fantastic organization filled with

fantastic people. It's so great to see so many people committed to giving

these beautiful dogs a good, caring and loving, forever home. I told Pam &

Dean before we left yesterday that I really feel compelled to help out in

some way. I'm not sure what that would be, as I have quite a lot on my plate

with four boys, now five including Shane, but if there is some way I could

volunteer for an hour or two a week I would love to do so. Just let me know!

Thanks again. We'll definitely be in touch.

Sincerely,

Maryellen

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-----Original Message-----
From: Hilary
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 5:11 AM
Subject: George

Hello,
I wanted to submit an update to you all on George. We adopted George a year ago..What a blessing he has been! We just love him so much! He is such a sweet boy, always happy, gentle, and loving. He pretty much pretends our little Pomeranian doesn't exist..but he is kind enough to allow her one mouthful of his dinner when you fill his bowl before he digs in. His relationship with the cat is hilarious. He really scared me at first with the cat, I really thought he wanted to eat him. He would bark, whine, and chase him (George is 11-12 years old, so it really has to be worth it for him to chase something). Then one day he actually had the cat cornered, and he just kind of tilted his head, confused, then looked at me like, "Well , now what do I do?" Ever since then, he just kind of wimpers when he sees the cat, I think that whole experience was quite disappointing to him.

He is so funny...ALWAYS has a "baby" (stuffed animal, actual baby doll, bone, a pillow...) in his mouth. We have three girls, so we have LOTS of babies. When it's time to go outside, George will search around for anything that resembles a baby to take with him...our 2 acre lot has babies hidden everywhere!

George breaks my heart daily when Jeff gets home from work because that's when I become chopped liver. He follows Jeff everywhere. Jeff is always working outside. George typically prefers to stay inside, except when Jeff is out, George must be out with him. Last weekend, Jeff worked out in the yard ALL weekend. It was cold and drizzling yuck out there, George laid in that yard all weekend watching him work and he just looked so happy to me.

I wanted a senior dog because I think they deserve a long, happy life too..doing a good thing for a dog who hasn't had it easy. Well, George doesn't need my charity. He is giving us much more than we can give him with his big heart and his fun, quirky ways. He's always making us smile! Thanks so much for him and for all that you do, I've attached a few pictures..notice the one of him sliding down our driveway with my children during the ice storm. He's got a frozen 'baby'!

Hilary

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