Another day at work.

Ever since Earl chose us, I have been bringing Earl to work. A few months ago my boss got a dog and started bringing "Apollo" to work. The dogs get along wonderfully, fortunately. Here is an example of some of their playtime activities first thing in the morning.

Running Circles!

Not sure if I have started a bad habit with Earl or if we are just bonding even more LOL. The other evening I was having a nice evening enjoying Earl's company, so when bed time came... I brought his bed into our bedroom and plopped on the floor next to my side of the bed. Earl and I both enjoyed a good nights sleep. The next night, after watching some TV, it seemed Earl was zonked out on his bed, this time in the middle of the living room. I turned off the lights and made my way to bed... but only seconds after climbing into bed I could hear the tap-tap-tap of Earl's nails on the floor as he followed me into the bedroom. I am such a pushover that when he looked at me with those beautiful brown eyes I went and grabbed his bed and put it next to me again. We have done this for a few nights now... uh oh....

Meanwhile... last weekend the weather was very beautiful and we were out puttering in the backyard, with some help from Earl. Here is a little video of Earl's activity level that day. My apologies for the quality of the video, it was shot with an inexpensive digital camera (not even a video camera).

Gay Paris.

I came. I saw. I peed on it. No big deal.

Kiss This!

Unfortunately Earl couldn't hang out at the Simmons house too long. Apparently Gene was getting jealous and was feeling a bit threatened. It seems Earl's tongue is longer.

Around The W-earl-D / Hollywood

Trying to steal the limelight from Brangelina... who wanted to adopt Earl (naturally). Too bad for them he is already taken!

Around The W-earl-D / Washington, DC

So it has been quite some time since my last post... but as you can see... Earl is doing well... and in fact, has been quite the tourist. Hitting nation capitals and hobknobbing with some pretty impressive people!

And they're off!

Dug up this old video of Earl racing. Of course I found one that he won.

1 Year Later

This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Earl's GOTCHA DAY. It has been a great year with the dog my wife refers to as "the most wonderful dog in the world". Since that is a mouthful, we have wisely chosen to continue calling him Earl.

Birthday!

In honour of my birthday, last weekend, my daughter decided to make Earl a superhero cape. I am not quite sure how I benefitted from this... since my powers continue to remain non-super. To celebrate my birthday we flew to Toronto to see the EAGLES in concert at the SkyDome. Great concert! Instead of Earl going to a kennel we opted to have a girl I work with look after him, which definitely seemed to suit Earl much better. She even continued his routine of bringing him to work each day. I think he enjoyed the routine so much that he wasn't too concerned by our absence.

Friends!

A few weeks ago I was out walking Earl while on my lunch break. As we were strollling along the sidewalk a woman got out of her SUV to say she just had to come see Earl. After some conversation I learned that her husband had spotted Earl and I out for a walk a couple weeks earlier... then this particular day, her son had seen us out and about and had called her (Debbie) at work to give her our exact location. She left work and tracked us down and explained that their family had adopted a greyhound from GRA Canada in January.








GRA Canada was one of the options I had considered when looking for a greyhound but I did not want to make the 17 hour drive when the time came to get a new family member, which is why I opted for NLGA. It turns out Debbie flew to GRA Canada to pick up Honey. One of the differences between NLGA and GRA Canada is that the dogs from GRA Canada have had no experience with home life... they are straight from the track.

We talked about trying to get together, possibly with some other hounds, and it finally happened this past Sunday. Woohoo!!! As far as we know there are only five greyhounds in Thunder Bay... but we managed to get four of them out for a romp at the dog park.

They all got along famously and everyone loved it when they finally decided to go for a run.

The dogs were Earl, Honey (red, from GRA Canada), Dove (white and brindle, never raced) and Baker (brindle, NLGA)... and Sadie... a whippet who shares the house with Honey.