So, My New Goggies

…are adorable.

Neither of them has ever had a family or even been in a house, before. They have to learn about stairs, cars, and glass. 

They are rescued racers, both of them. The younger one, the black one, is only a few months off the track, so they have spent almost their entire lives either crated or racing.

Many greys have a bit of trouble adjusting to home life, at least at first. 

But these dogs are really sweet. We are very fortunate that they want to go outside to go pee, that’s a blessing that they somehow knew instinctively. 

The older one is a dark brindle (she’s so beautiful that cars slow down to look at her when I take her on walks), and her name was Electra. The younger is black and named Massa. Now, this was a big concern, I didn’t know if this was some weird racist thing.

But apparently her trainer/owner was of Mexican descent and named the dog MASA which is corn meal dough, and it got transcribed oddly over the phone. Nevertheless, I can’t have a black dog and be yelling MASSA at it in public! That would not sound good at all!

She had no recognition of that name whatsoever, so it was no problem to change it. We changed the spelling of ELECTRA to ELEKTRA (because she DOES respond to her name) and we named the other dog VIXEN because she makes fox faces when she hears something interesting.

So my dogs have superhero cred!

We got them collars, leashes and harnesses in their superhero colors (Elektra’s are red, Vixens are the purple that Mari wore in Birds of Prey).

They are trying to understand having so much freedom and comfort. They LOVE running in the backyard. We are fortunate that they get along so well…they are not litter mates and haven’t spent much time together. But they act like they were raised together. They insist on eating and drinking out of the same bowls at the same time.

They are really happy, and we adore them.

Vixen had an injury at the track that was not taken care of, so one leg (right foreleg) has some soft tissue damage. She loves to run, but some days, she has a bit of a limp. Their pads are so soft right now that they have a very hard time walking on asphalt, but that will get better, it comes from being crated.

We went up to get one dog. We had our heart set on Vixen.

But when we got their, Elektra insisted on visiting and was so sweet and adorable and gorgeous, we couldn’t leave her behind.

Greyhounds are very special dogs. They are sweet, kind, eager to please, goofy, and man oh man do they love to sleep. 

We are ecstatic. 2014 sucked for a lot of reasons, but on the last day of the year, we had two new family members and that changed EVERYTHING.

Happy!