Injuries of a Fetch Fiend & Do-A Goes Home

Today will be the first "Beach Sunday" in a long time where Jinks is down for the count. She tore a pad yesterday out on the trail fetching ball a few too many times much too exuberantly and in typical Jinks fashion, she never stops the retrieve for a silly old "flesh wound." I caught on to her before she started limping (she will fetch limp and all), but she is one mopey, sour little girl today and has been hanging with her momma on the couch all morning. I don't really mind the sudden departure from "I MUST MOVE" but it's weird to see her so mopey. Oh the sighs she gives me! Little drama queen. She's torn her pads much worse than this before, but she's sure laying it on thick :P

Some coconut oil, a couple of cleanings and a day or two to heal up with no fetch and she'll be just fine. Hopefully we can make it to agility on Monday. Even if we don't sequence there's lots of minor grunt work to be done.

Obi is pretty miffed he doesn't have his playing buddy though. We'll take him, Beckett and Lemon out for an adventure this afternoon and leave mopey Jinks and her torn paw to heal.

In other news, Do-A has gone home and they couldn't be happier with him! He toddles along on the acreage, up and down the hills but will never leave their sight. He will even bark at cats to get them off the property, but doesn't give chase. His dad is really pleased because they are active bird feeders and watchers, and the local feral cats have been a little too comfortable on the acreage lately. Do-A has been getting used to a big cushy orthopedic dog bed, gobbles up his food and is having a right good time.

I'm a bit of a tough cookie. It's the rare time that I get emotional about an adoption, and I have yet to cry but I would be a liar if I said I wasn't close. From everything Do-A has been through in Taiwan, to how good of a dog he still is, how he doesn't hold any baggage, and his family who have had labs all their life and now in their early seventies, just want a middle-aged dog to enjoy. It was a touching moment.

Here is Do-A and his new family!

Adoption is usually about making families whole, but this one a little more so than usual. I'm SO glad I could be apart of Do-A journey. What an exceptional dog in every way and SO deserving of hitting the adoption jackpot.