Loved Hound

Your hound can be featured as a Loved Hound, too. Just bid in Greyhound Gang's on-line auction (during the first two weeks of every month) for your chance to be spotlighted. Or bid to feature a friend's hound, as a present. Once you've won, you'll email me pictures and text, and the following month, this is where you and your hound will be. Loved Hound. Our wish - love for them all.

Mariah & Isabelle - written by Sharon Haugen of Nevada Greyhounds Unlimited

brandi I have loved and had greyhounds in my home since 1996.

February of this year we helped our greyhound, Brandi, cross the bridge. What a huge void and a bigger loss. But I could not bring myself to ask for another greyhound, for I was very depressed. February turned into March, March turned into April and then May came and I still did not have a greyhound and I was not interested in getting one.

This was not like me because I have always believed when you lose a greyhound, you adopt another. Then there is room for another greyhound to come off the track, into a foster home and then into a forever home. Somewhere along the line, my grief got so deep, that I forgot what I believed in. As a placement rep for Nevada Greyhounds Unlimited, it was hard to help greyhounds find forever homes, if I didn't have a greyhound to bring to home visits.

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Gay Johnson, President of Nevada Greyhounds Unlimited contacted Joyce McRorie of Fast Friends which is where our local group gets our greyhounds. Joyce had a special needs greyhound, Nascar, and she contacted me, explained his special needs and asked if I would consider adopting him. We said yes. A couple of days before we were going to pick him up, Joyce called me and said the vet was not ready to let Nascar go and it might be another month before he was ready to leave California and come to Nevada.

isabelle & mariah The next day, Deb Ward, placement rep with Fast Friends called and said she was fostering a blue fawn, Momo, and she was 9.5 y.o and would we be interested. Hubby and I discussed it and said yes. On May 14, 2011 we met up with the Deb Ward in CA. and picked up Momo. We renamed her Isabelle after my grandmother. Isabelle was a fitting name as she was an elegant lady like my grandmother. My husband was in love with her immediately and she became his shadow and HIS dog. We even took her on two vacations this summer. She stayed in a B & B in Napa, CA. and visited several vineyards but did not do any wine tasting. She then took a trip to Mammoth Lakes, CA. and hiked into many lakes with us. Our home was complete now…….or so I thought.

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isabelle & mariah Towards the end of June I was looking at the Fast Friends website and saw a beautiful tiny white/brindle named Sucre (Champ). I read her story and discovered she had lived with Momo for seven years and when they went into foster care they were separated. I showed it to my husband and he said “she needs to come home to us”. I called Deb Ward and the 4th of July weekend we picked her up. A few days later we celebrated her 10th birthday with us and we renamed her Mariah. When Fast Friends took her in she had warts on her pads so they had them removed in June. When we got her, her feet were still pretty tender so we had to carry her outside to go potty. Our circle was complete now with four dogs and three cats.

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isabelle & mariah I cannot begin to tell you how Mariah and Isabelle have helped heal my heart. I needed a dog that was needy and Mariah fit that bill. Everything fell into place and I truly believe these two were guided to me by my bridge baby, Brandi.

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The greys love to lie in the sun on the deck, they love to sleep in, they love their walks together, they love going to M & G’s, they love their sofa but most of all they love us. Every day we still see a piece of their personality come alive. I realize they are seniors and we may not have them very long but we certainly will treasure every moment. As I say to them every night when we go to bed “I love you to pieces”.