What a Hound What a Hound

I received word today that Gracie the foster dog has been adopted!!!!!! She did so well at her first fair and caught the eye of a very loving family who has submitted a application and passed the home inspection spent the entire time we were at petsmart with her. I let the families two children take her for a test drive around the store a few times. I am not sure if she had ever been on a leash before but she picked up on it quick first walking with 3 other dogs who are very good on a leash. The wife can't believe how fast she was adopted. It is hard to let these lovable clowns go once they open up and let you see the fun loving personalty they have. Friday evening will be a very happy and sad day for us. We are unsure if we will be getting a new foster in september or waiting a little bit friday could be a good benchmark with that. I think the most asked question at the adoption fair was. Is it hard to let these hounds go to someone else? My answer is with one of our dogs Izzy it was as we were looking for a dog and lost a dog to cancer at the same time we were fostering her. Any other time we have fostered we did not accept a dog into our home until we were in agreement that we would have to let them leave our home as well. here are a couple pics from the adoption fair one has the dad and son of the family that is adopting her hanging out with her. Half Right Face

Gracie's first adoption fair

 Today The wife and I will be at the Knoxville PetSmart in the turkey creek shopping center from 3 to 5. i am getting ready to take Gracie on a walk so she will be a little wore out for the fair. sometimes petsmart can be a little much for pups. If your in the area stop in and say hi. I'm not sure how many other pups from the group will be there. After we get home we are having a few peeps over for drinks rockband and karaoke. Although she will not be adopted today since our group checks into peoples living conditions before giving them a dog. Wish Gracie luck she is a great dog and deserves a great home.

Chase on fox news today

just wondering if any one caught the end of the 40 minute Houston 500 today..........brutal

Straight shot to the baby maker.....

Well after 4 of my own calls and several emails i got no where with comcast. The wife on the other hand makes one call.... one fricken call and all is back to normal. Nice..... Just to keep a little gravy in the bag i'm sticking to "I laid the ground work for that victory" Think she'll buy it? Damn you comcast damn you.

On the front with the foster dog Gracie things are great. We have cleared up her infection and she is throwing down on kibble with out having to soak it in soft food. Gracie is a cuddler. whether your sitting, standing, laying down, or smashing timmies she is right there snug as a bug in a rug at your feet or on your lap or curled up at your chest. she is doing great with the other dogs and cats. She no longer has an issue with food aggression. She does still struggle with alone time. What I mean is she does not like to sleep alone or be left by herself. She would be perfect for a multiple dog house. To increase her chances of success when i leave for the store or gigs she is crated away from the other dogs. She may bark for a few seconds but once she is told no a few times she quiets down. She has no patience to sleep in the open kennel at night. I have seen her tuck away in the Doggy tent we have but that tent is right next to the bed where she can see you are still in it. Heres a pic i took while writing this of her by my feet. Half Right Face

Oops forgot to mention that Gracie is available for adoption thru Belly Rubs Basset Hound Rescue @ www.bellyrubs.org

the calm before the storm

after receiving a cable bill of over 300.00 today. after calling in july to change some of our service "saving us some doe" and to account for the summer off season. there could be a seething blog to come following the 3rd call to comcast today. stay tuned i will fill yall in even if it's fixed.  update......... I will have to deal with this tuesday the man i need to speak with is out of the office.......to give a heads up to the problem the wife turned off the extra movie channels we had during the summer off season of some of the shows we watch which should have shaved about 40.00 a month from the bill. she then switched our phone service from one provider to these comcast crooks. which added 20.00 to our cable bill but saved us 30.00 a month so our cable bill should have been 20.00 cheapert than normal. we were told we were given a promotional rate for the phone and they would waive the install fee. they failed to waive the fee and then failed to tell us they would be charging us a pro rated fee higher than the promotional rate for a full months service for signing up for the service 10 days before the billing date. nor did they tell us that they would be billing us for 2 months and 10 days of the service in a single month. cable bill jumped from 160.00 month to 307.00. so i truely feel cheated and misled. to be fair the higher up that started to deal with this issue has left for the day so with the facts stated we will see were this goes.