Monday, April 4, 2011

The Journey from Kennel to a Forever Home

Last weekend, Shawn and I took hope our sweet bundle of joy - a 64lb bouncing boy who is becoming the perfect addition to our little family. As new parents to our greyhound, we read all the books and prepared ourselves for the possibility of a destructive transition from his old life to the new one in his "forever home." Also like new parents we were EXCITED!!!! Through our excitement we are documenting our experience with our sweet Finnegan, the good, the bad and the stinky. We knew we would probably get little sleep his first night home, and understood there would likely be puddles and piles of little accidents. 

In reality, we came home with an incredibly sweet Finnegan who has had ZERO accidents in the house so far, who sleeps through the night and has only let out the faintest whine when he appears to be bored. Although he has been a little worried about all of the changes, Finn is being the perfect poster-boy for greyhound adoption. 



As a retired racer, Finn isn't familiar with all of the intricacies of living in a house as opposed to a kennel - his entire life has been spent in a kennel or the racetrack ... so we've been helping him through things like: 

Learning How to use the DOG BED! 








Mirrors are not as fun as REAL greyhounds:





Kitties are FRIENDS not FOOD! 



Stuffed toys can become friends faster than kitties can:






Next up.... learning how to climb stairs! Stay tuned ... 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The video with kitty meeting Finn was super cute. Finn gave a very firm bark at the end... I wonder if he was trying to establish dominance at that point, haha!! Happy for you guys and your new addition : ) ~Hayley