Straydog UPDATE posted THURSDAY 10/2/03 at ~8:10 p.m. CT

Bill Arnold's Daily Straydog Log

THURSDAY OCTOBER 2 2003

I drove to Dallas this morning and picked up the printed and folded newsletters

     Again many thanks to my old place of employment, Merrill Corporation, who donated to Straydog Inc. the printing of our newsletter. Our over-night man, Randy Hopkins, will begin stuffing the newsletters into envelopes, affixing labels and stamps and stacking them in boxes unsealed. Erin's still working on a two-page letter to her mother (Pat), kind of telling Pat what's been happening at Straydog since Pat died. We're intending to include that letter with the four-page newsletter that I put together. Hopefully we'll get the first bunch in the mail tomorrow night.

     Later we realized that it'd be better for us to wait till Erin's piece is finished and printed (on our own printer). Then we have to hand-fold Erin's letter and then stuff the two pieces into each envelope at the same time. So, tonight Randy will just put labels and stamps on envelopes. In my four-pager I included two pages of photos of Pat and some of the dogs. When I searched for "pat" on my internal search engine, it pulled up about 675 photos and files with "pat" in them! ... And most are photos, and all the photos are good!

Freddy comes home from the clinic after his new arrivals checkup and neuter surgery

     This 10-month-old fellow, who weighs about 22 pounds, is a "terror." He can stand on his back feet and dance around like a circus dog, and when he's on all fours, he moves so fast he looks like he's going in every direction at the same time! I stopped at the clinic on my way back to Straydog from Dallas and picked up the feisty little tyke. Of course, Freddy wouldn't stay in the back of my station wagon. He climbed over the boxes of newsletters and jumped in the front seat with me, and I had to keep one arm out to block him from jumping on my lap. I should have brought a crate with me, but I didn't know when I left for Dallas that I was going to be picking Freddy up.

     Then when I arrived home, I put him in the kennel Purdis had been in, and he's so small he promptly stuck his tiny head through the crack between the gate post and the fence post and couldn't get it back out. I started hollering and a couple of employees came running, and we got him loose. Then Juana noticed that he was bleeding slightly from his neuter incision, so we took him inside to spend the night in one of our several hospital kennels. Randy will have to deal with him all night, taking him to the big play yard for many outings.

Little Freddy's inside for the night.

Freddy is about 10 months old and won't get much bigger than his 22 pounds. (Yesterday's photo.)

 

Old Pup and Angel resumed bowel movements

     And and they were clear of air-conditioner filter remnants, so they must not have swallowed any of the chewed up mess. (See yesterday's photo in the link below to yesterday's update.)

Employee Michael reports that his new Red Pit is doing fine at his house

     Michael's other dog got along well with the new Nicky, and the whole family is really enjoying their new dog.