Richard Crowe's Blog – April 2012 Archive (5)

I have just been infected by a malware program which disguises itself as: S.M.A.R.T Repair.  It pretends that the hard drive is failing through a virus and that you must purchase their S.M.A.R.T. Repair program to salvage the computer!  Then it hides all of the iformation contained on the hard drive so the hard drive owner thinks that the hard drive has failed.

I did not buy into their scam and would not let my computer install…

The family who is adopting our darling foster, Bailey, has another doodle.  That one comes from the same kennel in Texas (Cheyenne Valley) from which we got our Holly.  The other doodle, Hailey, is two years younger than Holly so they can't be litter mates.  It will be interesting to find out if any of their parents are the same...

The American Maltese Association is holding their annual specialty this year in San Diego.  One of our Rescue's primary fund raising events is a luncheon raffle of donated articles.  A couple who run a cruise booking service just adopted one of our rescue puppies.  They said that they wanted to help out our rescue efforts and donated a seven day cruise for two along Alaska's Inside Passage for August 2013 worth $4,000!  Judy and I are going to bid on that one!

Holly is not a great toy lover.  She will play with a toy for a while and then forget about it.  However, Bailey, our foster Goldendoodle, as well as two of our Maltese adore their toys.  Just now as I was letting the dogs out for a potty break, Bailey and the two Maltese were lined up.  Each had a stuffed toy in its mount...

We are helping Michelle Long by doggie sitting her foster goldendoodle, Bailey, while Michelle is visiting family over the Spring break.  Bailey is an absolutely darling 11-month old female doodle but, we have a four pound 14-week old Maltese puppy that we were a bit concerned about.  We weren't worried that Bailey would do anything to hurt the pup on purpose but, a 30-pound dog could easily hurt a small pup by accident.

Not to worry, we introduced the pup to Bailey in our…