Saturday, July 21, 2007
All this new blogger stuff has made it difficult for the fosters to post. Don will be working on this in the future so that all the fosters can be back on the SCL site for blogging. I luckily remembered how to get in and will try and post more often.
The summer is zipping by. Life has become a bit ritualistic here at the Kleckner/Kiely household. About 2-3 hours before I have to go to work (I work nights going in at different time between 3:30 and 5:30 pm) we start letting loose the dogs. We do them in 2 groups this summer. Each group gets around an hour of running around. We interact a lot with each dog during this time. Lots of petting and brushing out their winter fur. With the hot weather we always have the wading pool filled but only a few dogs will go and lay completely in it. Others will wade and a lot of them like to pee in it!! funny dogs. After their play time it is feeding time and the dogs are then settled for the rest of the evening.
All our SCL adopted dogs are doing great. Also our direct shelter adoptees. Shaman is coming around quite nicely. Although he is still very spooking he LOVES to be petted if we sit in our lawn chairs and let him come to us. He gets lots of pats during this time. We usually just leave him loose all the time in the fenced yard. He ventures into the house every now and then but he loves to play and he has plenty of companions in both the indoor dogs and the outdoor dogs that he goes and visits with.
Don and I just got finished putting up new fencing. We cemented in 4 x 4 posts and ran 6 foot horse fencing with a new gate. The side yard is now divided into 2 parts. I'm looking forward to tomorrow to start picking dogs that will be able to be in there loose all the time. I will be building more dog houses in the next week so that we can have houses for them in both the freedom yard and the main dog yard if we need to chain them back up (probably when we both aren't here or have a pet sitter for some reason). Our goal is to eventually have several huge areas where we can leave groups of dogs loose all the time.
It has been so hot that we haven't been able to run shelter dogs too many times. Adoptions have been so/so but they have been keeping dogs for quite a long time if there is space. A couple of my favorites got adopted recently and we pray that they are happy in their new homes.
The summer is zipping by. Life has become a bit ritualistic here at the Kleckner/Kiely household. About 2-3 hours before I have to go to work (I work nights going in at different time between 3:30 and 5:30 pm) we start letting loose the dogs. We do them in 2 groups this summer. Each group gets around an hour of running around. We interact a lot with each dog during this time. Lots of petting and brushing out their winter fur. With the hot weather we always have the wading pool filled but only a few dogs will go and lay completely in it. Others will wade and a lot of them like to pee in it!! funny dogs. After their play time it is feeding time and the dogs are then settled for the rest of the evening.
All our SCL adopted dogs are doing great. Also our direct shelter adoptees. Shaman is coming around quite nicely. Although he is still very spooking he LOVES to be petted if we sit in our lawn chairs and let him come to us. He gets lots of pats during this time. We usually just leave him loose all the time in the fenced yard. He ventures into the house every now and then but he loves to play and he has plenty of companions in both the indoor dogs and the outdoor dogs that he goes and visits with.
Don and I just got finished putting up new fencing. We cemented in 4 x 4 posts and ran 6 foot horse fencing with a new gate. The side yard is now divided into 2 parts. I'm looking forward to tomorrow to start picking dogs that will be able to be in there loose all the time. I will be building more dog houses in the next week so that we can have houses for them in both the freedom yard and the main dog yard if we need to chain them back up (probably when we both aren't here or have a pet sitter for some reason). Our goal is to eventually have several huge areas where we can leave groups of dogs loose all the time.
It has been so hot that we haven't been able to run shelter dogs too many times. Adoptions have been so/so but they have been keeping dogs for quite a long time if there is space. A couple of my favorites got adopted recently and we pray that they are happy in their new homes.
