Crazy in Rockport - part 2

More videos from last weekend, starting with the puppies on Saturday.

And the rest of the dogs are still here.

And then on Sunday we got to relax a little bit.

We tried blocking "blind" Polly with a plastic bin in front of the side walkway on the deck.

Oh ya, that worked out well.  She was mocking us.

Then just jumped down on the other side and went merrily on her way. Nice try humans.

Crazy in Rockport - part 1

This past weekend I was dogsitting 8 dogs.  Yes that's right, EIGHT.  I'll never understand Donna, no matter how many dogs she's already responsible for, she can always add a few more, no matter how many other things she's got going on.  So while she was away working a concert, I was watching 8 dogs, and feeling crazy.  She is fostering 3 dogs and told me that it was only for a day or two (it's now Thursday night and all 3 fosters are still there).
One of her fosters is Polly a deaf and mostly blind dog.

And then there's the puppies.

Although Polly is supposed to be blind, just seeing shadows, I think she can see a lot better than they think, we'll find out when she goes into Boston tomorrow to get checked out.  These dogs get better medical care than I do.

OK, since everyone loves puppies, as long as they're not peeing in YOUR house, one more video of the puppies.

Sunday Excursion to North Andover

  Sunday Afternoon in the Conservation Area

Here are some videos from our walk in the conservation area today.  Only a few of them are small enough to post here. I have to remember to bring my ipod touch for videos so they don't take up as much space as my iphone.

First we went to the BIG field to walk and throw the ball.

Then after Bo is tired out from all the running.  We head back and sit and relax and enjoy being out in the woods for a bit.

And then we head back towards the car and stop by the pond for awhile.

And that is all that I can upload for today.  I'll try to produce some better videos on our next excursion.  

         Tom, Atticus and Will in Andover

I went to see Atticus and Will (with Tom Ryan) at the Massachusetts School of Law on Saturday.  I got a really nice picture of Will.  Will is 16 now, mostly blind, totally deaf, and very arthritic.  Tom took him in last summer expectly him to only last a few months,  But now he's thriving under Tom's care.  He's got in made now, so why would he want to leave.

And for a while, he was sitting with the people right next to me.

                           And of course Atticus was there.

                             And I took some video too.

Tom spoke and answered questions for about 45 minutes. It was really nice to get so "up close and personal" with Will and Atticus.

I wasn't expecting that. He and Atticus then received a humanitarian award for all the money they raised for the Jimmy fund while climbing the New Hampshire 48 in Winter.  And in case you missed it, they were on PBS in New Hampshire on Willem Lang's 'Windows to the Wild' show, which I've heard will be repeated on Boston's PBS station at some point, or I'm sure you can google it and find it on the web.

                                           Visiting Henry

Here are some pictures and a video from my most recent visit with Henry last week.

                      That's Rosie panting in the background.

I was out in the back yard yesterday and looked up and very surprisingly, saw a racoon in the tree behind our garage.  I've never even seen a racoon around this house before; ever!  We're not exactly in the woods here in the middle of Methuen.

I kept checking on him throughout the day, and he was always there. Most of the time he was sleeping, so I was lucky to get pictures of him when he was looking right at me.  But today he was gone.  Probably found a better place to hide today.  When I was a kid, I used to climb that tree, and there was a branch that I could shimmy on over to the roof of our 2 story garage.  I thought it was cool to just hang out on the garage roof.  Just because I could.

                              Today's Doggie News.


            The last 'old' puppy went to her forever home today.  

Now there's just 11 'new' puppies being fostered, along with Momma dog.  But the video of them still won't upload.  Looks like there may be a size limit of 100M.  So I'll have to try to keep the videos shorter.

And here's a picture of the oldest 'puppy',  Max.  Waiting for me to throw the tennis ball.

                             And Bodog resting on his bed.

And a happy dog on the rail trail.

This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago. The rail trail is almost completely free of snow now.  Let's hope it stays that way.

Since I can't get the video uploaded, here's a couple pictures of the pups.

               The Dogs of Rockport

If you think you know how many dogs are in the Rockport house, you're wrong.  There's always more than you think.

Here's a few of them....

and then of course, there's Buckley.....

and Ebony and the new batch of puppies.  But I'm having trouble uploading the video of the puppies.  I'm lucky I got 2 videos to upload.  This site is a pain.  Some videos will go up and some won't.  
There seems to be no rhyme or reason why some load OK and others don't.  I'll try again some other time.
Here's another video of the 'old' puppy.