Just thought you’d like to meet Elvis, another happy story. He is now called Otis and has a great family with two kids to love. Otis was being photographed for the Sunday Tribune pet photo when his soon-to-be owners spotted him and fell in love. <img id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155957975109034034″ style=”DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center” alt=”” src=”http://bp3.blogger.com/_GGzq-xpWRuI/R42kdf83YDI/AAAAAAAAABY/3XtPIHql1Do/s200/Elvis.jpg” border=”0″ /> <div></div><div>He’s a young guy and, we hear, a little rambunctious, but Otis is already a treasured family member. In fact, Otis’s “boy” Garrett is one of WAG’s first school Ambassadors. How’s that for dedication?</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Way to go Garrett!</div><br /><div></div>

WAG’s first meeting of 2008 was an enthusiastic one! Some new members came out and the committees are rolling along. The Adoption committee will start off-site adoptions in February at Boss Brothers in Loganville – exact dates will be announced later.<br /><br />The Spay/Neuter committee also has big plans for February, offering spay/neuter services to a number of animals. As we grow and more people and vets become involved, we hope to offer county-wide program. But this is a great start and we’re excited about it. (Well, THEY are. Not me.)<br /><br />The Education committee is working up a program to teach animal care to 3rd graders. Also, Sunday, January 20, the Tribune will be running a newspaper article about our school Ambassador program that…

Got fleas? Get a vacuum.<br /><br />It seems that researchers at Ohio State University have determined that sucking fleas up a vacuum tube causes their demise, what matter what stage of growth they are in. This is good news for some, not much benefit for others.<br /><br />Don’t think it will be much help to the weenie dogs that live at my house. They make themselves scarce at the mere sight of vacuums, plus they would probably clog the machine.<br /><br />But thank goodness someone finally saw fit to pay researchers large sums of money to sit around vacuuming fleas. I can’t think of a more exciting way to spend a workday.

This blogging thing is tough. Lots of folks do it every day, but that’s just too much for me to keep up with. My schedule is too busy.<br /><br />Take yesterday, for example. I got up, had my morning Mike Bone, went outside and patrolled the property fenceline. We’ve got 22 acres, so that took awhile. Everything seemed pretty secure, so I decided to lay down in the sun and take a nap.<br /><br />The garbage truck came and I had to take care of that, ‘cuz if I don’t bark, they won’t leave. When that was finished it was almost lunchtime. Fortunately, I had a few minutes to aggravate Peaches, the grouchy old dachshund that lives at our house. She’s gotta be about 100…

Happy New Year!<br /><br />Hope yours is going well so far. As for me, today I polished off some leftover sirloin and took a long nap in the sun. Seems 2008 is looking pretty good.<br /><br />Thought you’d like to see a few furry faces that found new homes during the holidays thanks to WAG newspaper ads.<br /><br /><a href=”http://bp1.blogger.com/_GGzq-xpWRuI/R3sStf83X9I/AAAAAAAAAAo/VvGMFVfN0s4/s1600-h/Mitzi2.jpg”><img id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150731171708493778″ style=”FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 103px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 85px” height=”213″ alt=”” src=”http://bp1.blogger.com/_GGzq-xpWRuI/R3sStf83X9I/AAAAAAAAAAo/VvGMFVfN0s4/s320/Mitzi2.jpg” width=”199″ border=”0″ /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This was Mitzi. She was about 4 months old and spent most of her time belly-up. Can you imagine that fur after about 3 months belly-up in the Georgia red clay? Yikes!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href=”http://bp1.blogger.com/_GGzq-xpWRuI/R3sYPf83YBI/AAAAAAAAABI/SYWuvH4qihk/s1600-h/Rocky.jpg”><img id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150737253382184978″ style=”FLOAT:…

It’s 40 degrees and finally feels like holiday weather. I have short hair and don’t particuarly like cold weather, but you’ve gotta admit Christmas feels better when frost is in the air.<br /><br />The New Year is fast approaching and there are some exciting plans afoot. WAG will be starting their education programs soon, teaching more kids about ways to help animals. There are some very enthusiastic children in our county and it’s great to see their interest in animal issues.<br /><br />Big news on the homefront with the planning of our new government animal shelter. The Walton County Commissioners have recognized the need for a new shelter and the SPLOST tax approved by voters in 2006 will provide much-needed money for the facility. But…

Before I tell you about anything else, let’s talk about me. After all, isn’t that what blogs are for?<br /><br />I’m a 5-year old authentic American Original canine Some people might call me a plain brown dog, but only if they’re idiots. I hate to brag, but am actually pretty smart. I’ve trained people to give me treats when I do stuff like shake hands, crawl, roll over and jump. It’s funny to watch them – they seem to get so excited when I do tricks like that.<br /><br />My dad left my mom before I was born. I moved out when I was pretty young. Frankly, a lot of that time period is a blur. I just remember one day when I was about…