Tag Archive for "dog adoption" | The Sighthound Underground

First Person – Meri, Meri Quite Contrary

About a year after I adopted Phil, my retired racing Greyhound, I felt like he was lonely. I started fostering for a greyhound rescue, but I felt Phil got attached to the foster dogs and depressed when they left. Seeing that greyhound pout, which is a special type of pouting I hadn't experienced before, made...

First Person – Two Fuzzy Pod Sibs Find Their Forever Home Together

On July 10, 2013, my beloved Cozmo died. He wasn’t supposed to live as long as he did given his epilepsy and megaesophagus. But until his very last day he was a happy puppy-like dog. I was gutted by his death. I wanted to try living without a dog for a while. It was a difficult...

First Person – Dora/Zora, the Mange-y Saluki Puppy

I happened upon the Sighthound Underground rescue group when surfing the web looking for Irish Wolfhounds. My husband and I had two Wolfhounds for many years and loved them. We had recently gone from three dogs to one -- a senior Pug-Boxer mix named Harley. I was ready for another dog and was intrigued by...

EDITORIAL: Why This Washington Post Columnist Needs a Reality Check

The headline was everything a rescue group doesn’t want to see: Why I’d Never Adopt a Shelter Dog Again. It went downhill from there. The writer, Erin Auerbach, had adopted several dogs from shelters over the years, including a Boston Terrier and a pug. They eventually got sick and – stop the presses – over...