Tag: dogs

Pup 3: Butch

January 2006 I stopped by the adoption store one day last week just to say hi, and I left with Butch. A volunteer had asked me to hang on to him for a minute while she took care of another task, and then another volunteer started begging me to foster him for the night. Butch was skinny and scared and decorated with pink spots whose source turned out to be a puncture wound in his […]

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The Hole I’m In

As a first step in getting ready for a new foundation, Robert & Vidal started digging. Miraculously, I managed not to break another foot as I wandered around back there. Felicia (the dog I was fostering) supervised, and occasionally helped out by moving work gloves, tools and small lumber bits to new places. I guess you don’t truly understand how big a slope is until you dig it up and move it.

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