Week of Februray 15 through 22

This week we had a new development. We thought Tari was on the mends from her diarrhea. This was not the case. We have tried so many things and have concluded that she may have a parasite. So we are going to have to worm her. Greys are usually wormed before they are released to new homes, however this sometime this needs to be done a second time, which is the case for Tari. . This is the second reason that we are not allowing her to visit with her friend Belle. Worms can be contagious, do not want to take any chances. The Greyhound adoption agency supplied the pills for Tari since we are still in the process of fostering and have not officially adopted her yet. We are going to worm her two more times over the next two weeks, hopefully it will take care of the situation. This is not a pleasant thing to talk about but it needs to be addressed, because the purpose of this blog is to let others who may consider adopting or fostering a grey know what could arise when you take on this responsibility. With the good comes some of the messy stuff, but this will pass. (pardon the pun) Just a minor inconvenience - - We saw a noticeable difference in her stool within a day. Let’s hope that this continues.

On Monday Fred heard her bark for the first time. And now here it is, a week later and we haven’t heard another bark out of her.

We have a new habit, she now wanders off into other rooms and picks up anything that is not nailed down and brings it out to her quilt in the living room. Plays with it for a bit and then lays on it…shoes, the cat’s feeding mat, my stockings, you name it. It is almost comical. So I decided to move some of her toys into the bedroom and with in an hour she brought all of them out to her quilt. Did I mention Greys love stuffed toys? Tari tosses hers around and then lays on them. Greys tend not to be destructive when it comes to the soft toys. Isis, our last Greyhound was the same way.