Horses are good company -- The Witcher

Sorcha and I go to the dog park every day. She is pretty timid and likes it best when there are not a lot of other dogs there. She also likes it when she has multiple people paying attention to her. Today was the Best! Day! Ever! because we met another Greyhound. The other dog is called Zeebee and is a brindle. A young couple are her humans and they've had her for a bit over a year. The dogs ran together and then we walked a lap around the park. Sorcha seemed much more secure having another greyhound and several humans around her. She ran quite a bit and smiled a lot. We also talked to a guy and his dog that we met there the other day, and an older couple who used to have a Greyhound, so she got lots of attention.

I took a couple of rather bad photos and posted them here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sasha_feather

It was very hot and bright out today. My browser widget says it's still 74 degrees F! Now Sorcha is on the sofa with me, laying on my feet.

It's nice; even when I come home from work feeling like crap, I go for a walk with the dog and I feel better. I also talk to all kinds of people when I am walking her. I've met some neighbors with dogs, for instance, and people at the park. I talked to some Hispanic guys at the soccer fields yesterday and I think one of them had a prison or gang tattoo on his face (something by his eye? lol I'm so innocent). My roommate's boyfriend talks to me a lot more now that the dog is around. Dogs get people to talk, even me.

I think I've settled on Sorcha. I go back and forth between pronouncing it as it looks ("Sor-cha-cha-cha") and like "Sor-ka".

We went to the dog park again and she growled/snapped at almost every dog there except for the Whippet. I suspect that she was nervous and overstimulated. Also, she was on leash. She does well with the two neighbor dogs who are very gentle. We also met the neighbor cat through the door, and the cat spat at her and clawed her ear! Oh no! She is now sleeping on the couch and laying on the Papazzan chair.



Here she is doing "roach pose"-- on her back with all four feet in the air.

Sorcha is 8 years old. She was a racer for a few years, I think in Dubuque Iowa, and then she had puppies. Greyhounds can live 12 to 15 years or so.