Richard Crowe's Blog – August 2014 Archive (7)

Olga and Chloe drove in from Tucson to meet Sully and it was love at first sight.  Olga and Chloe loved Sully and he thought that his furever mom and doodle sister are wonderful. Olga and Chloe will come by our house tomorrow morning to pick up Sully for the drive to his new home in Tucson.  …

After being shaved to the skin (I suspect by the previous owner) Sully is now gaining some coat and his doodle beard is growing.  We think he is quite a handsome lad.…

I caught this 40-pound roosterfish fishing off Rancho Leonero on Baja California's East Cape about an hour north of Cabo San Lucas.

I also caught quite a few yellowfin tuna of about 20-25 pounds and a couple of large bull dorado (AKA: mahi-mahi).

However, I am most proud of the roosterfish which was the best of the season from Rancho…

Bruno, a year-old male Maltese was scheduled to be euthanized by the San Bernardino, California Shelter.  No one wanted to adopt poor Bruno.  Guess why?

In all our years of rescue work and the…

The ocean off San Diego is very warm (hopefully as a precursor to an El Nino event which will bring us much needed rain in the fall and winter.

An added benefit to the warm water is that we are experiencing a deluge of warmer water fish off our coast.  Local day boats are getting yellowfin and bluefin tuna as well as Mahi Mahi (AKA dorado).  I have been fishing twice and eating yellowfin tuna on the grill 2-times a week.  The dogs are also sharing in our bounty and they love…

There are several essential commands: "come!", "sit!", "down!" and "stay!" which make living with a dog easier and which could possibly save the dog from harm.  However, there is one, very easily taught command which, IMO, is also essential and which can also save the dog from harm.

"LEAVE IT!" Holly was taught this command at Therapy Dog Boot Camp.  It is used when a dog wants to pick up something that the handler doesn't want the dog to pick up.  This can be used anywhere, I…

We have had several very strong applications for Sully so I expect that he will be leaving us for his furever home soon.

Mia, the Maltese-mix who had such a difficult time and who almost died has been adopted.  Her new furever parents were kissing her as they left our house and she was kissing them in return.  Those are the moments that make all of our work worthwhile.

We are getting another Maltipoo today, and we will soon also be getting little Summer, Mia's daughter, because…