Update on Dogs Hope Dogs

Reposted from my spaces site:

In case you aren't familiar with my rescue - we are located in North Carolina. Most of the dogs are English Pointers, some of them are German Shorthairs, and several are dobermans. I have something like 35 to 37 dogs to care for right now. People ask me to take more dogs every day. It is very hard to say no, but this many dogs is already very hard to care for properly - they are beautiful and healthy, but I spend all of my time when I am not at the library or driving to and from work or asleep caring for them.

If you are thinking about getting a dog - please consider getting a dog from a rescue - the only way we can save more dogs is to place the ones we already have. My dogs almost all came from animal shelters where they were going to be put down. They had reached the end of their time.

Here is the update:

I have my new camera, but the same old story of being too busy to even take it out of the box. So pictures eventually.

The dogs are hanging on pretty well - hard time for them and me too because of my irregular hours at the library. Yesterday was catch up on kennel cleaning day. I spent the entire afternoon until dark scooping kennels - six hours of scooping in 90 degree heat. Got it all done. I also gave heartworm preventative - a bigger job than you might imagine because I use a liquid that has to be measured out, and I have to document each dog, and also make sure he or she really eats his medicine-laced food. Some of them get little sandwiches made with mighty dog or cat food - yum.

Anyway, kennels clean (they are working on getting them back to normal already), and I also listened to NPR on my nifty radio headset while I was doing them.

Charlie continues to have problems - his illness has affected his joints, especially in his elbows. He is happy and active, but I try to keep him crated quite a bit because he needs to rest those joints. He has gained enough weight so that I now have him on normal food - not puppy food. Antibiotics continue.

Rusty - my cancer boy - is still doing fine, very sweet and loving. Still getting his cottage cheese flax oil mixture and his curcumin. The tumor is growing, but slowly.

Belle, one of my very shy little girls, is coming out of her shell. She loves Emmie - sweet little pointer who ran away earlier this year. She is also playing with Archie - new guy with fabulous temperment - and Charlie.

Everyone else is as happy as they can be. Jennie chewed up my good tennis shoes. I was angry at first, but then decided she did me a favor. She ruined them just enough so that I can still wear them, but not in public. So I can use them as kennel shoes without worrying about what I step in.

We are having a drought - Mother Nature's revenge - trees are dying, but I don't really feel right even mentioning this in the light of what others are going through. This is the 2nd hottest September on record for our area. I did turn the air conditioner back on - just too miserable without it. Dogs said thank you.

More pictures added to Antique Dog Photos, plus (thank you adopters) there are some really nice new photos on the Dogs Hope Adopted Dogs flickr site. I may not have mentioned that some of these photos are going to be used in a book about dog photography. I will add details as I learn them.