Some of our dogs have special stories. Your donations help each of these
greys recover to the best that life can be rather than being discarded
because a "broken soul" has no value. Please visit the DONATIONS
page if you would like to sponsor one of these special dogs.

Boggles is the most special of all greyhounds. He came to us in February from a home that he had been in for four years. He was having "accidents" in the house and the family did not want him anymore.

We found a loving, kind, handsome 8 year old boy who was really quite ill. After running many tests and doing some endoscopy and biopsy, Boggles was diagnosed with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. The frustration that goes along with this disease is always present. No two dogs seem to respond to the same course of medication and diet so everything with an IBD dog is trial and error.

Right now Boggles is on a very limited diet and a lot of medication. We have learned that we cannot cure IBD but we have a good chance of controlling it. Boggles deserves a chance to have a happy and healthy life and we will continue to make sure he has every available food and/or medication to try.

His attitude is wonderful....he dances when he sees his leash come out. He loves to walk the farm and visit the cows next door or show off for the kennel dogs. His favorite thing is going for a ride in the van and watching all the scenery!

Your help and donations allow Boggles to have what he needs and we continue to thank all of you who keep this special boy in your prayers.

Update: From a low of 42 lb in April, Boggles is up to 49 lb in August! We measure our successes in ounces, not pounds.....keep it up Boggles.....we all love you!

Meet Franklin, a five month old bundle of love who spent his whole life on three good legs, carrying the fourth one along wherever he went. He was born with a severely broken tibia of his right rear leg. At five months, his right hip didn't work right anymore and his whole little body was "off".

Our orthopedic surgeons checked and rechecked his x-rays and decided to operate on his leg. Franklin came through surgery very well.......how wonderful to be young! A portion of his tibia where there was a "malunion" was removed and two surgical plates and screws were inserted and fixed to the bone. There is a space where the two bone ends do not meet...that area was packed with graft cells and will eventually heal together strongly. Once the malunion was removed, everything else seemed to fall into place, including his hip.

Franklin is now recuperating in a loving foster home. We expect that he will need some physical therapy after the leg has healed.

Please visit the DONATIONS page if you would like to sponsor Franklin.

Friday night we got a call from a trainer in Naples that one of her dogs had broken a leg. The story is the same as it always is....the owner wants the dog put down and the trainer can't afford the surgery to fix her. Bob spent all day Saturday on the road to bring the little girl home. We checked her race record and she raced at Wheeling....won in AA which means she made someone a lot of money. The Naples trainer had only had her a week and this was the first time she had put her on the track. We did receive a donation from the trainer who had never made a penny off this dog. We are calling her Phoebe...she is just a little thing, happy, tail wagging, sloppy kiss giving brindle greyhound.

Phoebe underwent 2 surgeries to try to correct the break, but both attempts failed as the injury was too severe--the bone and tissue could not heal. Her final surgery was amputation which relieved her of the pain.

Bob and I brought Phoebe home this afternoon. The resilience of this little tiny girl has just astounded us. She walked out of the office, over that slippery floor, and right out to the grass to pee. She actually squats better now than when she had the leg. We hugged her and told her how proud we all are of her and put her new collar on her before she got out of the office. After all, how could we take the princess home without her sporting a brand new collar. Bob picked it out and it is stunning on her. We picked a narrow one because she is so tiny. Everyone at the vet's office was smiling and they all came out to say good bye to her.

She spent most of the ride home looking out the window. She laid down twice but stood up again quickly. She is still very swollen and horribly bruised but she does not seem to be in any discomfort. She hopped out of the van, Bob picked her up to go up the three steps to the deck and she walked down the steps to the turn out yard herself. I let her off lead, she walked around, peed, pooped in her favorite corner, took a drink and then waited for me to take her into the kennel.

She went into the big crate like a champ. I made her a little dinner so she could take all her pills and when I checked on her 15 minutes later, she was snoozing next to an empty food bowl. You can all guess how relieved we are that this is over and she is home. What a trooper she is!!

The pictures are a bit graphic but this is the reality of an amputation. Your emotional support through all of this has been extremely comforting. I don't think I have seen Bob this worried in a long, long time. She has become very dear to us and a favorite of so many out there.

Please visit the DONATIONS page if you would like to sponsor Phoebe.