Pics Of Me!

These are some very very very beatiful pictures of me that The Stones took! :) I love these pictures because they show off my "cute"ness! :) I love to smile, as you can see! I am a very happy girl all the time! :) You can probably see how sweet I am by these pictures. I don't mean to brag, but I am pretty darn adorable. :) Oh, c'mon. You have to admit it! More pics are coming soon. Anyways, I will see you all later!!!

Love,

Ale Heavy Hand ♥

forever yours

Request for Big Jim

This is a story about our bloodhound Jim. In May of 2004 we had just lost our beloved Lab Jake of cancer. Jake was Rocky's dog as he had him before me. We were so upset and swore we would never be able to love another dog. After a few weeks of moping around I suggested we get another dog to help ease some of the pain. We looked in the paper and at the humane society several times and then Rocky decided he wanted a Bloodhound puppy. From being in law enforcement he had been around several "working bloodhounds" and thought it would be a good, layed back, lazy ole' family dog. Our search ended up in Mcdonough at this guys house that had two adult bloodhounds and a yard full of playful, wrinkly, adorable puppies. The guy told us they made great family dogs and Mary being so young they would grow up together. Savannah was just the age she didn't care, she just loved dogs, all dogs :) My girl, ya know. Well, we paid our $500.00 and we left with one of those babies. That Monday I called my vet/friend and told her about our new baby and made an appointment to get her shots/exam. She told me we had made a big mistake and suggested a Poodle or a Golden Retriever. Well, after loving on those big floppy ears we knew we were in love. I guess about 1-2 weeks later, we were second guessing our decision. Big Jim was quite a handful. We could not housebreak him and he "slung" drool everywhere!! He chewed everything he could find including Mary and her toys, bottles, he ate many pacifiers and a portion of our sofa. He would track everything and we did not feel like it was fair to him to keep him from doing the one thing that he enjoyed doing. He was not happy and neither were we. My neighbor suggested I go meet Duke Blackburn with the Georgia Fugitive Task Force. I called him and he said he would love to take a look at him. I took Jim a few days later and Duke loved him. He explained to me alot of things about bloodhounds I never knew and reassured me that we were doing the right thing by Jim. I made the decision right there to give him up. About a week later I got a call from Michael with Georgia Diagonistic prison in Jackson, Georgia and told me he was Jim's handler and how happy he was to have him. He told me we could visit Jim anytime. A couple of months later I got a call and Michael told me he was in Newnan for the day and brought Jim to see us. He was a real "police"dog complete with military tags and a vest. I was so proud of him. The sweetest part of this story is a few months after that we got a call that Jim had caught one of Georgia's 10 most wanted!!! Go Jim!!

D.K's Kadabra Now loved as Abby

This all started on September 7, 2004 when Grey's Nautilus and D.K.'s Prime Time had a litter of greyhounds. Kadabra was the second of a litter of eight to be born. She has four sisters and three brothers. I am really sure where she was born, I am assuming Kansas, as that is on her Certificate of Registration and she raced there. She only raced ten races, two of which she won. I guess racing just wasn't her thing, and I could not be happier :) I am not sure when SEGA actually got her but I do know she was at the kennel for a while until this "angel" come to foster her named Denise. About a month after she had been with Denise we called to make an appointment to meet her. She was so beautiful and so sweet. The whole family fell in love with her but we wanted to meet her a couple of times to make sure she was "the one" I could not get my mind off her. On Sunday July 13, 2008 I called Denise to see if we could come back over and even though it was raining and storming, off we went, and I knew in my heart I could not come back home again without her. Luckily I did not have to. She is such a dream, she follows me everywhere I go, room to room, and Rocky says she cries when I leave with the kids. We have named her Abby even though I still call her Kadabra sometimes, I think she knows both. This is my first greyhound and it has taken a little while to learn all the unique qualities about them, it has been fun. I cannot tell you how many hours I have pecked away at this computer looking up anything from what ear tattoo numbers mean to how to remove the blackheads they get on their tummy at the turnouts. It has been called "cult" by alot of people and I am starting to believe it.

My first pictures

Let's try this again, my pictures did not come up on the last one.

My first Post

Well, here it is my first post, I am so excited that I actually figured all this out. I created this blog to brag about my family, friends and my two precious dogs Abby and Sadie. More to come...