I realize that what I’m about to say is utter heresy in the
world of animal adoption, but what if you could get your hound unspayed or
unneutered? I admit that I sometimes
wonder about this. Don’t crack those
knuckles to warm up your typing fingers just yet. I cannot be the only person who has ever had
this thought.
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Baby Blue (thanks to Drew H. for the photoshop assist) |
As I sit looking at my sweet, handsome, big goof Blue, it
seems a shame that there will never be any baby Blue’s spreading their handsome
genes and sweet nature to the world of greyhoundom. Blue was a decent racer but not fast enough
to be a stud dog. It seems such a loss
to the greyhound gene pool. No one ever
has loved a pillow or a hotel bed like Blue does. Wouldn’t a tiny Blue or two curled up on a bed
pillow melt any adoption activist’s heart?
I also think about my Girly Girl of course. What I wouldn’t give to have one of her
daughters with me now. To have her live
on in a reserved brindle girl who takes after her mom. Girly Girl had been slated to be a brood
mom. If that actually had happened, I
would never have met her. She would have
been diagnosed with cancer before she ever reached the age of brood mom
retirement. Still I know she would have
been such a great mom. The way she
hoarded and brooded all her stuffies gave me just a little glimpse into the
part of her life that never was.
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Baby Bettina (thanks to Drew H. for the photoshop assist) |
And then there is Bettina.
Yes, I even wonder what her crazy spirit would look like if it could
have been crossed with other hounds we know.
The world is going to be a much poorer place when she isn’t stampeding
around in it anymore. I picture a little
herd of black greyhounds running rampant through the house. They’d all be
barking and shrieking while chewing on the electrical cords, over-turning the
garbage can, learning to counter surf and leaving me a tiny corner at the foot of
my own bed to sleep on while they gleefully shred the pillows and
comforter.
More magical thinking for sure. But haven’t you all thought about what it
would have been like to have a puppy or two from one or all of your beloved
hounds? I know at least three people who
actually do have that situation but they arrived at it in a much different way
from the way I am fantasizing. If you
adopt an older retired brood mom then you can have years of fun tracking down
and adopting the puppies once they retire off the track! And seriously, how cute would Blue and Bettina puppies have been!