Hal O'Brien

This is our "new" dog, freshly brought down from Mariposa, shown with Kaylee for scale.

Definitely an independent character.

One year ago today, we picked up Kaylee from Saving Great Animals, a pet rescue group. The original intent was just to foster her until a permanent home could be found for her, but... we became that permanent home.

I'm glad we did.

Up there is one of her original shelter photographs, showing just how goofy-looking she was presented. Here's a picture I took the 2nd day we had her:



I don't think she would have languished for 90 days in the shelter if my picture had been used, rather than theirs.

But now... Too damned bad. She's our dog, and you can't have her. So there.

Here's a link to all the pictures I've posted of her at my Flickr account.

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So while we were in and out of Potlatch, we found a place to board Kaylee for the first time. That would be with a couple we met at Kent's Grandview Dog Park one time, Carol and Steve, who have a web site at TheDogLadyCares.com.

One of their options is they'll send you email updates of how your furry friend is doing. That leads to the following extremely cute video of Kaylee playing with a Chihuahua-mix puppy, Ranger:

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In this observer's anthropomorphic opinion, part of Kaylee's bemusement with Ranger is because Kaylee lives with three cats. Thus, "Dude! You're small and furry like a cat, but your paws don't have those sharp slashy things like a cat. What's up with that?"

When we took Kaylee to the vet just after we got her, the first week of November, she weighed 42.4 lbs.

I just got back from another weighing. 51.7 lbs. So +22% of her old weight in seven weeks.

I thought she was growing.

The Busy Buddy is a toy that allows you to put kibble, snacks, or other treats inside. We picked this up at our local Mud Bay today.

akirlu wrote a while back about the odd paw print medallion we got as part of the package of Sarah's cremation package, and how it didn't look quite right.

With all due modesty, rooting through some of the beach pics tonight, I think this one is more the feel she was looking for.

I think this is the best picture I've managed of Kaylee so far. If she'd had this on her shelter profile, I bet she'd've been picked up faster.

This is Kaylee, who we picked up today. We're fostering her. She's very kinetic, so this is about the most stable pic I could get during a first attempt. I did a video as well, it'll probably be coming later.

She's a rescue dog, and has been in a shelter in Pasco since 7/30. She literally would have been euthanized today if we hadn't agreed to foster her.

She has a very sweet disposition. Even in the few hours we've hosted her, she's been fun.

Her paperwork spells her name as "Kaylea," but I suspect that's just a question of someone previous who was looking either for uniqueness, or couldn't spell. Either way, I figure she's Kaylee now.

Shiny!

The 10th picture taken with the old Kodak DC4800 digicam. The second day we'd owned it, June 30 2001, so probably bought for my birthday (and for our upcoming trip to Sweden that year).

Presumably the first digital picture of me and Sarah, and presumably taken by Ulrika. This is in our apartment in Costa Mesa, Calif.

"Yes, I could lie down on the 90% of the bed that doesn't have your folded blanket," sez Lefty, "but why should all your trouble for me go to waste?"