Tamee Renae :: Blog

Koru, my 18.5 pound Maine Coon, is this month’s featured image in my 2011 calendar.

This is Pria, our pet dog. She was originally a guide dog puppy, but was dropped from the program because she has very minor hip dysplasia.  Good thing she loves to swim, because it’s great for her hips!  She loves to swim so much she will (and has) jumped in the pool in January when it’s 40 degrees. In the summer she spends hours a day in the pool swimming laps.

My family has raised puppies for Guide Dogs for the Blind since 1994. Maylita was a puppy my mom took for a few months when the original raiser could no longer care for her. Maylita was 5 months old when these pictures were taken, Koru and Maylita were the same length from nose to tail! Maylita went to live with another raiser right before Xmas. She was such a sweetheart, I hope she becomes a guide!

I received a box that used brown sheets of packing paper as padding.  At first the sheet was all crumpled, so he would pounce at it, and hide behind it. It gradually flattened out from Koru laying on the sheet. He now sleeps on top of it, and hides most of his body under it. He has figured out how to turn around under the paper without anything but his tail peaking out. He likes to hide under the paper, and then attack me as I walk by.

Wrigley is an adorable 3.5 month old goldendoodle (one parent is a golden retriever, the other a poodle). Here’s a sneek preview.