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Aug 2, 2010, 9 pm, MT.
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Your hound can be featured as a Loved Hound, too. Just bid in Greyhound Gang's on-line auction (during the first two weeks of every month) for your chance to be spotlighted. Or bid to feature a friend's hound, as a present. Once you've won, you'll email me pictures and text, and the following month, this is where you and your hound will be. Loved Hound. Our wish - love for them all.
Like the BMW, this Beamer is in his own class, sophisticated and discerning. He raced, and then went to Hemopet as a blood donor dog for over two years.
Hemopet needed dog walkers for their greyhound blood donors. Joanne decided to volunteer.
Greyhounds intrigued her, but she hadn’t met one. Nor had she any thought about adopting a dog at that time. She just wanted to help.
As she walked into the sterile kennel rooms, a few greyhounds barked. One big fawn boy, fixed his eyes on her, and just watched her as she approached. As she walked by his cage, his eyes still glued to her, he started talking, not barking, at her. “Hello there, you missed me, come back, I’m right here.”
Joanne heard him clearly and did come back, and walked Beamer first. It didn’t take long for her to realize on that walk, that he had picked her, and that he would be her first greyhound.
He settled right into home life. Her velcro dog, neither rabbits, nor birds, nor other dogs could get him to leave her side.
He does love her husband, though not quite as much as he loves her. In the morning, her husband gets up before her and goes into the office. When she gets out of bed, Beamer will get up with her, and go into the office and greets her husband with a good morning, and then goes back to her side.
His discerning nature is evident with his toys. He loves his toys, but only in the office or bedroom. To him, they do NOT belong anywhere else in the house. Joanne will often move them from those rooms, just to mess with him, and he will diligently collect them from other rooms, and move them back to the office and bedroom – where he will play with them.
Joanne has always owned smart dogs all her life. She now knows she will love greyhounds the rest of her life – in particular her Beamer.