Richard Crowe's Blog (249)

We got a phone call from the Barstow, California Humane Society saying that they had a 3.5 pound Maltese that was scheduled to be put down unless a rescue group came to pull him from the shelter.  We put a hold on the "Maltese" and I took the 160-mile trip from my home to Barstow.

The 3.5 pound Maltese turned out to be close to twelve pounds and certainly did not look like any Maltese I had ever seen.  I asked about the weight and was told that they…

We have five of our Crowe Maltese plus our Goldendoodle, Holly = 6-dogs

We are presently fostering six Maltese plus our Labradoodle rescue, Cocoa = 7-dogs

We offer dog sitting services to persons who give our fosters a furever home.  We don't want our fosters ever put back in a kennel, even a nice kennel. We also love to see the dogs come back to us looking lovely from the TLC they receive in their furever homes.

Three families have taken us up on this over the Labor Day…

We had Cocoa groomed today and we think that Maureen, of Ye Olde Poodle Parlor in San Marcos, CA, did a great job; especially considering the terrible coat condition in which Cocoa arrived.  Cocoa was necessarily clipped short, including her ears because she was so full of mats and tangles.

Maureen told us that Cocoa was one of the nicest and most cooperative…

Holly at five and a half years old has just started counter surfing...  We have been quite lax in leaving goodies unattended on our kitchen counter because Holly has been so reliable in not grabbing anything off the counter.

Well, those days are gone.  Holly has found how good the counter items might taste and we now have to be careful about what we leave out!

Removed this to Always Room for One More Blog

We are getting a doodle to foster from Doodle Rescue Collective, Inc.  She is a year older than Holly and has come from a home with smaller dogs and a larger dog.  Although Holly adores the Maltese, I am sure that Holly will be happy to have a girl her own size to play with.

Here is the picture we were sent of this poor girl.  She looks like she needs some TLC!…

The Dog Days of Summer in Cardiff by the Sea, a North San Diego Coastal town is advertised as: San Diego County's largest dog-centric event!  It is scheduled for Saturday, May 10th between 10 AM and 4 PM and the day-long event draws over 10,000 attendees from all over San Diego. There are over 200 vendors, a Blessing of the Dogs with the Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Center (who wouldn't want their dogs blessed that way?), 10 dog contests, tasty food, a kid's zone, a doggie cool zone,…

My son-in-law went fishing this week and he ran into a school of bluefin tuna. Our daughter shot this with her cell phone - that's the reason for the poor quality image.

The biggest fish was a bit over 40 pounds and the smallest were still pretty big.  He gave us several freezer bags of fillets and one big bag of scraps for the Crowe dogs.

We and the dogs are…

We got a call from a volunteer networker at 2:30 today that there was a one-year old Maltese female in the San Bernardino City Shelter who was going to be put down if she was not pulled from the shelter a 5:00 pm.

Judy called the shelter and found that there is no way they would delay the euthanasia even if we guaranteed that we would pick this girl up.  It was 3:00 PM when I got on the road for the 75 mile (approximately) trip to the…

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...

I was worried about the riots in Istanbul because we are scheduled to visit there in a few weeks and that is an important part of my upcoming trip.  However, that has paled to insignificance.  My step-daughter's two year old grand-daughter passed out in daycare and blood tests show that her red blood cell count is so far down that it is off the charts.  Doctors don't know the cause.  Things like that bring me back to reality and help me realize what is really important!

But Lacey, a 14-year old. 4-pound Foster Maltese has found a new home.  Her owner passed away and she had no one to take care of her.  A wonderful family has adopted her and will care for her for the rest of her life.  They have a older mother living with them who had just lost her dog.  Lacey and the mom will make a great pair.  This is a win-win situation.  And if Lacey…

When I brought my several Maltese and Holly out to go potty last night, they all started barking at the slope next to my house on which we have rosemary growing.  I could see what appeared to be twinkling of several eyes.  Holly ran towards it and just as fast retreated back into the house, completely scared.  A couple of the Maltese were still barking at the "intruders"...

Turned out that what we thought were "intruders" was a partially deflated mylar party balloon.  It was…

We were watching a video about Venice Italy the other night in preparation for our trip.  All our dogs were sleeping around the family room with Holly sleeping on the couch.  The video was showing the Venice Film Festival and the presenter was calling to a friend of hers, Oliver, in the crowd of people.

"Ollie!", she called!

Holly's head came up.

"Ollie!" she called again...

Holly jumped off the couch, ran over to the sliding…

Scenario:

You live in an area called "Tornado Alley" and your town has already experienced two devastating F-4 and F-5 tornados over the last 12-years.

Would you not expect your schoold to be equipped with tornado safe shelters or non-flooding basements?

Or... are not the lives of Oklahoma kids worth the few thousand dollars it would take to protect them?

Along the same lines...  A non-intrudable security door would have protected the kids at the Sandy Hook,…

We were at a rescue event in Irvine, CA and a woman came up to us and asked if she could trade in her dog for a smaller one.  I thought at first that she was joking but, she was totally serious.  The dog at ten pounds was bigger than she wanted.

I told  her that we would accept her Maltese as an owner surrender but there would be no way that she would get a dog from us.  She was indignant and said, "I haven't had the dog all that long, just 9-months!"

There…

We went to an adoption event today with our Scottish Terrier + Maltese cross: Terra (for terrier) and her three male puppies: Huey, Dewey and Louie.  Terra, Dewey and Louie got adopted.  I brought one puppy home.  We now have no adult fosters in our home and just three puppies. That is being empty nesters for the Crowe house...

We will probably keep our numbers down since we are traveling to Venice, Greece and Istanbul soon and also we have additional fosters to help us.

This is not just a random remark.

http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2010/09/15/12510.shtml

Is it a coincidence?