Sunday, June 17, 2012

A Rescue Journey (part I)

Five days ago my co-admin on the Boxer Mailing List posted the following:

"Many of you remember the story of my younger son.  He would NOT get a dog because he didn't want to experience the pain of losing one.  Then, he decided he wanted a Boxer!  He adopted Dempsey from Greater Ohio Boxer Rescue and Dempsey was flown from Chicago to Phoenix on PetAirways.  The PetAirways flight was my Christmas/Birthday/Valentine's Day gift to my son.  :)

Now, the man-who-wouldn't-get-a-dog wants to adopt a buddy for Dempsey!  He wants another laid back Boxer (certainly NOT a Paris-Ivy type!).  And, once again, GOBR found the perfect Boxer girlie for him.

He wants to adopt her so I started looking at PetAirways again.  BIG PROBLEM:  that airline is no longer in the air!  I got a reply to a contact form that told me PetAirways plans on resuming flights later in 2012.  Then I looked on Google to see if I could find out why ... seems PetAirways got into a financial crunch because of a change in aircraft.  NY Times story (in Feb) quoted owners as saying they are committed to resuming flights for pets.

But ... that leaves my son out right now.  I just talked to him and he's so disappointed.  I will NOT fly a dog on a commercial airline (and no airline would fly pets in/out of Phoenix now anyway).  There's no way he can take 6 days off work to drive to Ohio and back.

Maybe this little Boxer girl just isn't meant to be his."

There is so much more to this story but for now I would like to introduce you to that perfect Boxer girlie. Her rescue name is Mary Jane but her new dad is going to change it, he says he won't know her name until he looks into her eyes.

Mary Jane with her foster mom.
Mary Jane (left) with her foster brother Bogie Bear

Mary Jane (left) with her other foster brother Registered Service Dog Willie B.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Murphy & Annie

Today we have some photos of Murphy and Annie enjoying summer, on the boat and at home. The Brindle thinks they're crazy to get that close to water on the boat.

Annie and Murphy (with the white neck) enjoying Lake Shasta in Northern California
Murphy enjoying his second time on the boat
Enjoying some Northern California sunshine on the deck

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Xena, Taking a Break With Titus

Xena, the conformation champion who does ALL the other things too is back today. This time though there's no work involved with this working dog. It's all about the play time with her buddy Titus.

Xena was full of it last night, bouncing around Titus like she was on springs in an effort to get him to play rough...














 
And she finally succeeded - this has to be why they're called "Boxers"!

 And then it was time for a cool drink from the fountain.  Xena and Titus have very different drinking styles, as you can see here.