The Cat in the Upstairs Room

This is Sally. Sally belongs to our daughter, Ellen. Ellen is in educational transition between SFA in Texas and WKU in Kentucky. During the in between time, Ellen and Sally will be staying with us here in Sanger. Sally will be living in the upstairs bedroom behind a closed door. Ellen has full run of the house.

This is Gus. Gus has a sneaking suspicion that Sally is in the upstairs room, although he has not personally seen her. There is a baby gate at the top of these stairs. Gus normally respects that gate. In addition, Gus has a fear of cats.

This is Bill and Joey. They respect the baby gate. They don't care that Sally is upstairs. Bill and Joey are both neutral in regards to cats.

This is Gracie. She shares Gus's suspicion that a C-A-T is upstairs. Gracie respects the baby gate, except when she doesn't. Gracie has no fear of cats. In fact she views cats as tasty tidbits, and would not hesitate in eating one (literally). Fortunately Gracie can not (as of yet) open a closed door. Gracie will be spending the next 4 weeks under strict supervision. Won't that be fun??

Senior Weiner, Foster Failure

Let me introduce Joey, the senior prairie dog. Joey came to us straight from Harris County Animal Control death row. He was an unclaimed stray,  pulled at the last minute by *Dachshund Rescue of Houston . Joey was a stinky, skinny, heartworm positive, older, unneutered, dental mess of a dog. He was not cute, not cuddley, not much going for him - fortunately for him DROH is in the business of looking  past all the mess to rehabilitate and rehome dachshunds. They take the easy, as well as the hard, and even the impossible cases and do wonderful things. Joey was not supposed to stay with us permanently. He was a foster. He was supposed to move on to a new forever home. But he stayed. We call that "foster failure".

Joey just chillin'

Joey hanging out in Houston

Joey makes himself comfortable most anywhere.

*DROH is a wonderful organization that I had the priveledge of fostering with for several years when we lived in Houston, TX.