Greys at Cannon Beach
Greyhound Pets Adoption Northwest hosted an adoption event today at Cannon Beach City Park, and we found homes for four dogs! When we left Portland this morning all of us had dressed for rainy weather, but we were pleasantly surprised with a beautifully sunny day once we arrived. We set up the X-pens and canopies next to the tennis courts, and people started arriving to meet and greet with our “ambassadogs.” The park was a terrific place to host the event because it made it very easy to have the dogs with us on leashes and not in the X-pens.
I took a few of the dogs into the tennis courts to “toy test” them with a tennis ball. If you close all of the doors to the court, it is like a giant X-pen and a great place to play off-leash with a greyhound. The first two dogs, Troubles and Mack, really loved the ball and chased it all over the court. The other dogs were jealous of the play time, so we tried all of the dogs in the court with the ball to give them some exercise and see how they do with the toy, but the other dogs didn’t seem as interested as the first two did. I was impressed that I was able to get Troubles, a kennel dog*, to play fetch with very little effort. One she brought the ball back to me she wasn’t very keen on dropping it, but she always brought it back so we could play some more.
While we were getting ready to close up shop, I walked the three remaining girls around the park. Walking three greys at once is a bit like walking a three-headed hydra. Bound by a common link, but all the heads wanting to look in different directions at the same time.
Our next Hounds Out and About event will be in Bend at the Bend Pet Express (420 Windy Knolls) on June 5 and 6. Come out and meet the dogs!
*The kennel dogs have the least exposure to “life off the track” while foster dogs are a bit more experienced in the real world.
Hey!….you were soooo close, yet you didn’t stop in to say hello?!
(Actually, it was a non stop madhouse here today….and my parents were visiting at the same time….so you were probably wise not to stop by!)
But sometime we must get together again!
Sorry I couldn’t – I wasn’t driving! We were there, found homes for some dogs, and were back in Portland again before you could say “squeaky toy”!
Definitely need to get together – preferably for cocktails…