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

I’ll bet you expected a Photoshop tutorial on how to change colors of an image. This has nothing to do with Photoshop or any other editing program. I changed the color of my home from blue to “GREEN” by switching TO SOLAR ELECTRIC GENERATION…

Since I live in an area that has ample sunshine (at least 260 sunny days per year), I generate plenty of solar power for my needs. I would expect that in areas in which sunny days are not so abundant, solar generation might not be as cost…

We will be doggie-sitting CoCo who was a DRCinc foster with us last year. CoCo will be with us over the Thanksgiving Holiday and will be able to renew her acquaintance with Holly and meet our new rescue dogs. CoCo is a darling dog and I am looking forward to shooting some follow-up pictures...…

Elmer and Elsie, the two junkyard digs turned video stars with 425,565 views on their rescue video by Hope for Paws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyzb_9l5NXg&list=UUdu8QrpJd6rdHU9fHl8J01A ;,  met their wonderful furever parents yesterday. Their mom and dad flew in from the Twin Cities in Minnesota to San Diego to meet and adopt this super pair of siblings. Today the junkyard/video stars…

There is a yearly two-day adoption event at Rancho Mirage, California in which we have traditionally had excellent results in finding adoptions for rescue dogs.  In fact, since we know that this event is so successful for our adoption efforts that we accept a larger number of dogs as fosters than we can normally handle.  

Compounding this, one of our members passed away with no one to care for her three dogs and we accepted those dogs…

I am posting this to inform any members of this supposedly rare condition.  

We had not encountered Puppy Strangles in our years of working with dogs until just recently. Puppy Strangles is described in Wikipedia, "Puppy strangles is a disease of puppies, also referred to as puppy head gland disease, juvenile pyoderma and juvenile cellulitis." [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_strangles[/url]

We recently have had…

I have a bank on my property that is covered in sweet smelling prostrate Rosemary plants.  Rabbits had taken over this large Rosemary patch and were over-running my yard.  They had developed rabbit run tunnels through the Rosemary and Holly couldn't chase them through these tunnels...

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The rabbits had free reign, until we got Sasha…