Richard Crowe's Blog – July 2013 Archive (3)

Liberty is a case of neglect that was serious but didn't look  bad from the outside.  Liberty is a lovely Maltese-Poodle mix who is a bit less than a year old.  When I picked her up from the Carson, California shelter, the shelter said that she had a "problem with her left rear leg or hip".  The shelter was going to put this darling dog down the following day because her medical "problem" made her unadoptable to the general public...…

I was picking up Holly from the doggie beauty parlor when I met a friend of hers there.  Our groomer lets the "nice" dogs wander around the shop after they are groomed, so Holly and her friend had the run of the place.

At first I thought that the big guy was a black Labradoodle.  He was a bit shorter than Holly but more powerfully built.  Holly weighs 55-pounds but, I would expect that her black friend weighs at least 75-pounds; all muscle, no fat.  He had coal-black wavy…

It was absolutely wonderful to be greeted by our darling Holly and all her Maltese buddies when Judy and I arrived home from our vacation.  We have only left Holly twice in the five years we have shared our life with her.  We both enjoyed our vacation but really missed our canine life partners...