Pets
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Christmas Eve…sunny weather, 15 degrees Celsius…Teddy is tired of walking
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I'm currently fostering Fergus, a former racing Greyhound.
He's a very low energy dog, despite looking as though he doesn't skip leg day in that photo. Most of the time he's sleeping, and when he's not doing that, he's likely to be lounging around.
I got him straight from the kennels, so he hasn't figured out the pet life yet. After nearly a fortnight, he still prefers to be outside, fortunately it's summer here in Australia. All sorts of things ranging from noisy kids to plate glass windows terrify him, but he's slowly getting better.
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@goosehd haha, yeah! Teddy boy is a star!
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@Graeme i don’t know how people foster dogs. I could never have a dog that wasn’t actually part of my family permanently. Kudos to you. My step bro adopts greyhounds, one at a time as they dont live that long after adoption. I think that have about an 10 yr span. All they ever did was lay around… until you accidentally drop their leash.
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@Matt the Victorian Greyhound Adoption Programme, which is a gesture of corporate responsibility by the racing industry, put out a request for foster homes over Christmas, and I thought that it would be fun. I'm currently between jobs, so I've got the time to look after a dog, but I'm planning on moving in a month or two, so it's not necessarily a great time to get one on a permanent basis.
(Although when Bloomberg and the BBC are framing the Australian housing market as a cautionary tale, finding a new place might take some time.)
Fergus is a sweet boy, but he's also suffering from pretty severe anxiety. He rarely spends time inside, preferring to hide in a den at the bottom of the garden for much of the day, although he came in this afternoon because it was better than staying outside in a massive thunderstorm.
He's also got a habit of stealing things and running off with them, which led to a conversation with the tax office earlier today, "Sorry if I'm a bit distracted, but my Greyhound just stole a jury summons letter from my desk."
I'll be sending that dog to prison at this rate...
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@AdamJ I used to have a cat that loved to run straight across my face, bounce off the walls, then straight across the face over and over in the wee hours of the morning. Bloody bastard!!
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@Mizmazzle Sounds about right. Whenever we stay at my girlfriends (where she is 95% of the time), she is pretty calm. Whenever I look after her at mine, all hell breaks loose
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@Luijim78 Nice.
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Looks great @Oaktavia. We are a bit south on the other side of the river. 36 and raining all day. Dogs didn’t want to go out and managed to sleep most of the day.
