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11/12/2024

‘Sup Eberbody?
Seeley N da gang here.
When momma closed down HoundPower.com, it seems a Vietnamese company bought it.
Several of you have received very strange emails in another language.
If uze happen to get one. Plhueeze block it and report it as spam.
Fank U Bery Kindly, Seeley, Normy, Pony, N Liddul Thunder

CUNG CẤP GIẢI PHÁP BẤT ĐỘNG SẢN TOÀN DIỆN CHO KHÁCH HÀNG

10/17/2024

09/08/2024

Weeks Three - Eight
Hi Eberbody. Thunder the Wonder Dog Here. It’s been a while since I’ve updated my progress livin here wif Seeley. Normy, Pony. N Momma. I’ve been workin reely hard on learnin how to be a happy, secure, spoiled hound. Momma sez I’ve made tons of progress, but it has been a series of ups N downs. She sez it’s like dancin, a few steps forward N then lots of steps backward.
Here’s wot I’ve been learnin.
The other kids like me and eberbody has their own specialty. Seeley has been teachin me how to play bitey face, tug, how to throw stuffies In the air, catch them and then give them good shakes. (This mornin momma was sittin down in the hooman potty room doin her business. I threw a stuffie so hard it went thru the door N bonked her in da head. Ooooops) Pony N I run the yard every day lookin for the squirrel brothers Freddie N Charlie. They are very rood squirrels. They run the top of the fence, hop from the shed to the tree and then back when we aren’t lookin. Pony taught me that it’s safe to go thru the door even if momma is standing there. It’s owr job to go owt and chase Freddie N Charlie cuz they eat all da bird seed N sunflower seeds momma puts owt. Her LadyShip oversees announcements and schedules. She is very particular on snack N dinner times. We are sad to report that momma apparently cannot tell time. Lady Norma sez it’s rather embarrisin that us poor hounds cud actually starve to def.
In weeks five and six, I really started being momma’s shadow if she didn’t move too fast. (Even now if she turn’s around too fast or I meet her cominn down the hall, I skitter off sometimes.) I don’t run away anymore. Just walk very fast (puffs owt chest). I still get upset when momma’s roommate comes in and I bark and run away. After she is in the house or if momma isn’t here, I can go talk to her and even sometimes, I let her pet me.
Amazon drivers shud all be ladies. I reeely don’t like it when men delivery hoomans come on the porch. The other night we were in the yard and the hoomans next door were talkin. When I realized they were men, I started frantically pacing around the yard and flew to the back door so momma could let me inside. It was hours, N I reely had to p*ee before I wud come owt.
Momma has a silly song she sings when she feeds Seeley, Normy, N Pony. She even made one up just for me. Up until last week, momma had to put my bowl down and leave the room. If she came back in to sit on the couch with her coffee, I would run off. Little by little she talked to me and got me to take steps toward her. I am pleased to report that tonite She stood only two steps away and I came up and ate my supper.
I’ve also made progress goin in and out the door. In the beginning I wouldn’t go thru the door if momma was near it. Even when I woke her up at four in the mornin to go p*e, I made her go all the way on the patio and sit in a chair wot was almost out of site. Now I can stand rite next to her or chase Pony and it doesn’t bother me.
When she has been gone and comes home, I run and do greyhound pouncy feet and let her play chase with me. (I like it better when she chases me. (whispers) don’t tell her but she doesn’t run very fast so chasin her is not much of a game. I don’t want to hurt her feelings, so I do a couple laps around the yard then hop in front of her with wot Seeley sez is getting to be a reely good Play Bow.
I like lyin on the couch with Pony N Seeley. Sumtimes they get a bit persnikity when I lie down on top of them. My favorite is lyin next to momma with my head on her lap or shoulder. She calls me a cuddle bug and gives me ear skritches, that makes me feel yummy.
Those are the highlights of the last few weeks. It doesn’t take up a lot of room on paper, but it reely has been quite exhausting. Momma has been teachin me “Watch Me”. So when I get skeered I can concentrate on her and it will help me calm down. She says it helps with lots of things. I don’t reely understand it all but I’m doin my best to learn it. She says it will help lots when I start goin on adventures with the other kids. Oh. I’m working on liking car rides. Now I lie down where I can see between the seats and look owt. Pony and Seeley like to put their heads out the window. They say eventually I’ll like that too.
This has been a lot of writin. (big yawn) I think I’m going to snuggle with momma for a bit before Pony, Seeley N I go on owr evening patrol.
Later eberbody.
Luffs Thunder the Wonder Dog

08/19/2024

Thunder the Wonder Dog- Week Two

Seeley BICS, Lady Norma, & Pony spent lots of time napping in the bedroom with me. Seeley said that Norma made up a schedule so that I would have lots of company while I was in my safe corner. The boys said her LadyShip was not to be messed with when she stomps her foot. *whispers*I think they are a bit afraid of her. But they always very respectful*. Norma (Normy) makes me think of my own mom, Storm.
The kids helped me check out the rest of the house a little at a time. I tried to time it when mom was out or sitting down so I didn’t have to worry about her coming up to me. It didn’t always work. If I was in a room and momma was walking around, I would high tail it back to my safe place in the bedroom. Most of the time she didn’t talk to me. For some reason if she said my name that made me skitter away faster. Sometimes she completely ignored me. I liked those times the best. She would also spend a lot of time sitting on the floor loving Seeley, Normy, N Pony. When that happened, I would sneak back to the doorway and watch.
Around the end of the second week Seeley showed me his humungous Toy Corral that momma made for all the stuffies. I’d never seen so many. He said I could play with any I wanted, but I didn’t know how. One morning, he took me into the playroom while Momma was at the gym. He said pay attention, because he was going to teach me the fine art of stuffie playing. I curled up on the rug and paid very close attention.
He said you don’t just dive into the toy box and come up with any old stuffie. First, you have to inventory the whole toy box to make sure momma picked up all the ones from the day before. This is very important because momma may have missed one. If that happened, you could count on it being the one you neeeeded to play with first. ALL Hounds, Houndettes N Houndies know certain toys are funner on certain days. When you find the first one you want to play with, you take it out, growl at it a bit, then throw it in the air. Next you grab it up and do a couple laps around the house with it in your mouth. If the door to the yard is open, it’s greyt fun to treat the stuffie to yard zoomies while tossing it up in the air and grabbing it when you zoom by. When all the laps/zoomies are done, you drop your stuffie on the floor, pounce on it and commence making it squeak.
After carefully checking out all the stuffies, I selected a pink floppy bunny. I grabbed it by the ear and ran around the room. Pony and Normy started cheering, so I took off down the hall and back. The back door was open so I kept going. When I was done with yard zoomies, I came in the house, threwed him in the air N pounced. I’m getting really good at the squeaking part. Momma says she loves it when Seeley N I squeak our stuffies at da same time. Lady Norma just rolls her eyebols and goes back to sleep.
Seeley may have created a monster. I spend most of my days taking stuffies out of the box, squeaking them, then putting them in piles around the house. After everyone goes to sleep at night, I move around very quietly like he showed me and like magic, momma wakes up to a whole pile of stuffies on my bed. Sometimes I have so many I have to put them on Pony’s bed. She laughs and says that’s why I’m a sleepy head in the morning,

08/12/2024

Those ob you wot knows momma, knows that hers is good at lots a stuff. Computers isn’t eben on da wanna be list. Add to that FB is on da computer and us hounds will be divin for cover a lot in da near future. Da Hound Power website wot we don’t have any more, had a part called Greyt Words. Momma N Vinny posted articles N stories there. Momma wants to continue that but isunt sure how to go about it. For now hers is gonna put it under Hound Power. Any thots or suggestshuns R welcome.

Diary of a Wonder Dog.

My name is Thunder, I’m about three years old, and this is my story.
The first part of my story is a bit sketchy. At the beginning of 2024 my owner passed away and my mom and I ended up in a shelter in Fort Worth, TX. One clue may be that my ears are notched. Some hunters “notch” their dogs’ ears. Notching hound’s ears makes it easy for the hunters to recognize their dogs. If that is where I came from, my foster mom now thinks I was probably a “bait” dog because I was young and crazy fast. Some hunters use Bait Dogs to draw out the coyotes. When the coyotes chase after the Bait Dogs, the hunters shoot them to protect their animals.
My mom and I were in a shelter in Fort Worth. The Greyhound Adoption Legue of Texas (GALT) heard about us and took us to their kennel.in Carrolton TX. When we got to the kennel, I was separated from my mom. With all the noise from dogs and humans, I was so confused and oh so scared. I barked a lot and paced all the time. All I wanted was a place that was quiet and dark so I could hide. I was scared of everything and everyone. My mom found a foster home right away. So now I was all alone, and nothing was familiar. The longer I was there, the more anxious I became, and that made it harder to find a foster home for me. After about three months, I was neutered. That means they make you take a nap, and while you are sleeping, they steal your personal parts. (Rood). After I woke up, I got to go to a foster home. The humans were very nice, but it turned out that I was terrified of the dad. When we went on a walk and he held the leash, I followed as far behind as I could. I paced all the time. The mom could only pet me when she was petting her greyhound, and I would come close. I couldn’t make myself take a treat from her hand like her Greyhound did even though I really wanted it. She had to put it down and walk away. I was so miserable sometimes I even p*ed and pooped. That made me feel even worse. I was so embarrassed. The decision was made to move me to a foster home with no male humans. I would go to one with just a mom and three greyhound kids.
My New Foster Home:
The day came that I was going to my new foster home. A lady with a quiet voice and soft touch came to my foster parent’s house. I wouldn’t let her come near me. I paced and paced Finally, I laid down on a big dog bed, she sat near me, and I let her touch me just a little. We sat there for a long while. She kept talking softly to me and not making eye contact. She told me all about her own Greyhound kids, how I was going to learn to be big and brave and have fun. Her kids loved adventures, and we were going to work hard so I would like them too. I didn’t understand everything she said, but I did calm down. Eventually she put a leash on me, and we went out to her car. The car was kind of cool. It even had a name. It’s called the “Hound Mobile” like “Herby the Love Bug” only different. (Whoever Herby was). The” Hound Mobile” was fixed specially for her fur kids. There were big dog beds in the back and what she called an observation deck. That’s where my new foster sister, Lady Norma, always rides so she can look out ALL the windows. There were even cubbies under the floor to put all kinds of stuff. The whole time we were in the car she talked to me about all kinds of things. I didn’t really understand her, but I did like her voice.
On the way to my new home, the Emergency Vet called. Lady Norma, my soon-to-be foster sister, had an accident the day before and needed stitches in her head. My new foster mom said we were going to take what she called a “detour” and pick her up on the way.
Just as we walked in the door, Normy’s doctor came around the corner and he was a man. Everything happened at once. I got so scared, I p*ed and pooped everywhere. Even up on the wall. I tried to run away. Foster mom told the Dr. that I was terrified of men, so he went away. I was shaking so hard and was so embarrassed. Foster mom got on her knees and kept telling me I was OK. It was her fault for not thinking about possibly running into the man doctor. She used that soft voice and just held me. The lady behind the counter put us in a quiet room to wait for Lady Norma. When Norma came out, I practically dragged us to the car.
On the ride home, Lady Norma was a little woozy, but very nice. I laid down touching her and she gave me licks. By the time we got “home” I was feeling better. Her Ladyship introduced me to my two new brothers, Seeley BICS and Pony Puppy. They were very polite and understood I was scared. After checking me out, they let me go hide in the bedroom in a bed just for me next to Pony’s bed. I would spend the next several days in that bed except to go out to take care of business. The kids said to call New Foster mom, Momma.
During those first days, momma would come in and just sit with me. Sometimes she would talk to me, and sometimes she’d curl up on the bed with me or on the big bed with Seeley while Pony and Norma napped on their beds. Little by little I started to feel safe.

09/27/2023

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