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Greyhound Pets of America/Austin (1990-1995)
Greyhound Companions of New Mexico (1996)
A Place for Us Greyhound Rescue (February 1997-present)
Lotus
November-December 1990
Well, you've probably already discovered what happened to this one. She's still with us! Our very first foster, we picked her up as a foster for Racers Recycled in Austin. Her owner was calling her Greenie ("Because she's got a green muzzle and her sister has a yellow one.") It didn't take her long to convince us that she'd found the right home. An interesting note: Butterfly later re-connected with Lotus' breeder via the Internet greyhound mailing list!
Napoleon
NXS Texas Sun
GG Gunsmoke
Time Ticks By
High Impact Big Boy
Tyson
River Knight
Legs
Scoby Jones
Down and Out
NXS Get Back Jack
DougNtodd
Sports Buff
Aztec Ben Tryin'
Louie's Pearl
Slim
NXS Xavier
River Keeper
Whitey
River Red
Alex
Stetson
Austin Bound
Mitchell
Black Coordinator
Wild Rumour
Hershey
Sir Charlie
Sky's Cool Luke
October-December 1991
Napoleon was our first with GPA-Austin. He was a great big fawn boy, calm and gentle. But we had him for awhile because he'd had a rough time. No one knows what he'd been through before he hit Austin's Humane Society shelter, but he was very thin and covered with sores. We nursed him back to health and taught him all about being a house pet, and he was a fine introduction to the joys of fostering.
1/25/92 - 2/7/92
2/14/92 - 3/20/92
Another big fawn. This one's had more than his share of adventures in his life. He travelled to Florida with his new mom, was kidnapped and recovered several years after adoption, and later re-adopted when his mom had to give him up for health reasons. He's now settled happily with people who wouldn't give him up for a million bucks.
4/5/92 - 4/13/92
Well, that didn't take long! This was a bigtime winner, very light blue fawn. He'd retired due to an injury, but that didn't stop him from racing straight to the perfect home. This guy impressed everyone around the GPA booth at the renaissance fair when he was unloaded straight from the track and spent the next several hours surrounded by noise and crowds, apparently unfazed by this new experience.
6/2/92 - 6/6/92
Here's another one who gave us whiplash, he came and went so fast. A huge red brindle who inspired his new mom to rename him "Teeger."
6/9/92 - 6/19/92
Tyson was a big red brindle who lived up to his name! Always a fighter, he was mellow enough with people but real keen to eat anything small and fluffy. Always an adventure at meet-and-greets! He found the perfect spot with a first-time greyhound owner who wholeheartedly adopted both Tyson and GPA-Austin. Tyson went to the Rainbow Bridge in 1995.
7/5/92 - 7/24/92
Knight was a handsome fawn boy, very gentle and easy to place. He went to the Rainbow Bridge in 1995.
8/18/92 - 8/28/92
Legs was first in a series of big red brindles, hard at this late date to keep separate in my mind. Like several of our fosters, he want to a great family that jumped right into GPA activities.
8/31/92 - 9/12/92
Scoby retired from racing to become a country dog, living with several other dogs and learning all about horses. Big dogs. Big BIG dogs.
10/1/92 - 12/1/92
Yet another big red brindle. This one was quite a pup, full of himself and very jolly!
1/9/93 - 1/23/93
Jack was a big red brindle who really liked people and other dogs. His new family experienced a tragedy right after his adoption, and he helped his new mom get through it.
Uh-oh, foster mom didn't write down those dates! Todd was a striking hunk, great big and white with brindle and red ticking.
3/6/93 - 4/19/93
Buff met his new mom at the renaissance fair, where she took him for a long walk and was impressed with his outgoing personality. He was a big hit, but his new mom had to give him up for personal reasons in 1994 and he was re-adopted.
4/30/93 - 5/20/93
Ben was a real gem! A true blue, not too common among the greyhound crowd. On top of that gorgeous color, he had a wonderful elfin face that looked full of mischief. A real lady-killer!
5/26/93 - 6/15/93
Another tiger-striped red brindle. We like those big red boys!
6/29/93 - 8/27/92
Red brindle, alright, but Mr. Personality would stand out in anyone's mind. Young, energetic, and full of affection, Slim fit right into a home with two kids to play with.
9/13/93 - 10/1/93
This guy was another hunk! Huge, bright white with big black spots, he was on the cutting edge of the Holstein fashion trend. Adopted as the second greyhound to a doting dad who wanted this one to be "MY dog."
10/20/93 - 12/18/93
Keeper almost was. He was just the way I like 'em: Huge, fawn, mellow. This was the first one since Lotus I was seriously tempted to keep myself. His placement demonstrates the magical touch required for adoption placements. Even though his new parents, both quite short in stature, were looking for a small female, GPA-Austin sent them to meet Keeper. It was love at first sight!
12/23/93 - 1/5/94
Whitey was another fella with striking good looks, white with red brindle ears. He went to live in Aggieland (College Station, Texas).
2/5/94 - 2/25/94
Red was just that, in fact a dark red brindle almost the color of mahogany. His adoptive parents jumped right into GPA-Austin activities, and it didn't take them long to adopt another greyhound!
3/6/94 - 3/15/94
Alex was a big gentle red brindle whose retirement was all too short. He went to the Rainbow Bridge in August of 1994.
5/7/94 - 6/10/94
What a great name for a greyhound! A big (aren't they all?) fawn brindle.
6/12/94 - 8/31/94
Another one who was almost trouble! I loved this dog, and would have kept him if we'd felt we could take on a third one of our own. White with a red brindle saddle and ears. He went to live with a new mom, dad, and a little girl who thinks he's the greatest.
9/15/94 - 11/5/94
Mitchell was a jewel who was returned to GPA by a previous adopter. He moved straight into the hearts of a single dad and his two teenaged sons, and has since been active in both GPA-Austin and Special Olympics activities. Mitchell's dad claims that I spoiled him, but I think it happened after he left our home!
1/14/95 - 4/21/95
More trouble for me! Cord was returned by his first adopter after several years, for personal reasons. At 8 years old, he was a real special boy, solid black and a nice match with Lotus. He had a small seizure right after we got him (with no history of seizures) and scared me half to death. I decided on the way home from work to meet his soon-to-be adopters that if they weren't the right match I was keeping him. But they were perfect - the kind of match rescue groups dream about. Mom, dad, and little girl all fell head over heels (dad says Cord's the son he's always wanted). We done good with this one.
5/20/95 - 7/29/95
"Wild" was the right adjective for this 5-year-old solid black bundle of energy. He was huge, and acted like a big puppy. Our biggest adventure was when he caught (but failed to kill) a squirrel in our backyard just before I was expecting a contractor. The squirrel kept tearing up Rumour's nose, but he wouldn't let go! The patio was spattered with blood and there I was, trying to hold an excited dog still with a rag stuffed up one nostril and an icepack on top of his nose. Luckily I got the whole mess cleaned up before the contractor got there! Rumour landed in clover, though. He slept in the bed with his new mom the first night home, and the next day the family bought a bigger bed so his new dad could sleep there too.
8/1/95 - 8/11/95
Right on the heels of our adventures with Wild Rumour. I didn't keep good records on Hershey.
8/12/95 - 8/25/95
Charlie was a big happy boy who found his new family right away.
9/17/95 - 10/8/95
Another one we'd have kept except for one problem: He really wanted to catch our cats. Luke was another huge solid black guy, very friendly, affectionate and playful. Another good match with Lotus, too. But his new mom was ecstatic, and took him off to live with a couple of other greyhounds and some horses. (He won't look at the horses.)
Mikey
2/3/96 - 2/16/96
Our first foster for Greyhound Companions of New Mexico! This one was a five-year-old red
brindle, fairly small for a male. Mikey precipitated a minor crisis: Playing with Lotus the
weekend before he was adopted, he accidentally tore a hole about the size of a 50-cent piece
in the skin of her neck. Off to the vet we go, for four stitches. Perhaps this is karma;
Lotus also likes to play the "run and nip" game, and she had similar accidents with two '
fosters in Austin. That's why we use muzzles for playtime these days!
Scarlet
2/18/96 - 3/29/96
What an angel this lady is. Our first female foster ever, and she is very special. As Nulife
Kolorme, she was a grade A racer at West Memphis, Arkansas. Scarlet was nine years old when
she came to Greyhound Companions of New Mexico, having spent four years as a brood matron
after retiring from the track. She is a very large (she has a good 12 pounds on our small
female) red brindle, with a lovely silver muzzle. She is calm and affectionate, just like a
good mother ought to be. Scarlet (now Rosie) is no longer a foster - she is our second
greyhound girl!
Osage Rider
2/7/97 - 2/22/97
Rider was our first foster for A Place For Us
Greyhound Adoption in Albuquerque. He was a four year old live wire who was curious about
absolutely everything. He was especially fond of shoes, and both of us had to adjust to
putting our shoes away if we wanted to keep them. Lotus was put out because he wanted to play with
all of her toys, but Rider got along well with the other dogs and - with a reminder now and
then - with the cats as well.
Cocoa4/20/97 - 5/10/97
Cocoa was a pet greyhound, picked up as a stray and adopted by someone four years ago. Unfortunately, Cocoa's first mom encountered severe health problems that prevent her from caring for Cocoa. She enjoyed living with our two greyhounds and three cats, and gradually learning to leave the cats alone. Cocoa now lives with an older woman and her daughter, sharing her people with a border collie and a herd of llamas.
Stillwell11/25/98 - 12/4/98
Stillwell was six years old, and came to New Mexico from Abilene, Kansas, where he had a home until health problems prevented his owner from exercising him. When he decided to start taking himself for walks to the Greyhound Hall of Fame and other interesting places, she decided he needed a new home with someone who could be active. Here you see him enjoying some down time with our Rosie (Stillwell is the one in the foreground). He was affectionate and well behaved, and got along well with our three cats.
CoalApril - September 1999
This is Coal, a handsome, large three-year-old black boy with a very loving and sunny disposition. (He's wearing his Memorial Day poppy at left.) He now lives in Farmington, New Mexico.
BreanneDecember 1999 - present
Breanne is a petite 3-year old from Oklahoma who was a little too small to be competitive on the racetrack. She has a lovely hair ridge from the crown of her head down the back of her neck. In this picture she is patiently being terrorized by Indy, who thinks he is a greyhound. She is sweet but very shy, and needs a gentle home to bring her out of her shell. Breanne gets along very well with our two cats. She also lives peacefully with the dogs, but is not so sure about the birds.
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