NBs Cartier: 9/25 - Taking It All In

Woody here. I've had a busy past few days.  So much to see and learn. Foster mom says I have to be ready for my retirement in my forever home. I like the sound of that so I'm trying really hard.

I love the outdoors and I've learned to do all my potty stuff outside. No more belly band for this boy.

I've mastered the crate! Foster mom puts all kinds of good stuff in there so I go in there sometimes just to look for a surprise.  I eat all my meals in the crate and I never whine or bark.

When foster mom leaves for work, I go in the crate and she gives me this really cool but odd shaped ball with cool stuff inside. Today she added some peany budder!  It was great! I can get used to this.

I've graduated to sleeping upstairs.  Foster mom says I'm such a good boy that I can sleep upstairs with her and all the other pups.  There was only one problem with that. Those stairs were scary and Foster mom had to help a few times until I got the hang of it. Now I can do it all by myself.  Foster mom says I'm very smart and brave.  Really I just didn't want to miss anything. My foster brother showed me a great window to look out of where you can see the whole street. Now I need him to share that really big dog bed. I'm always the last one up the stairs and that bed is always taken. It looks super comfy and I can't wait to try it out. Must get faster on the stairs....

NBs Cartier: 9/24 - New Beginnings

NBs Cartier here. Or Cartier. Forget that fancy name and call me Woody. That's the name I like best.  I'm a two year old fawn boy with dreamy eyes. A couple of months ago, I was racing in FL but one day they told me I was going to be what they called retired. I wasn't sure what it meant but I'm up for trying just about anything. Here's to my new beginnings.
So on Friday I told my old racing buddies that I was going to find retirement and made my way to VA. Some nice ladies met the hauler and moved me to a car for a trip to MD. It was my first time riding in something that had windows. That was great. Then we made a stop at a place everyone called greyhound central where I was waited on hand and foot. They served us breakfast in bed on nice cushy blankets. Next we took turns getting a spa treatment complete with nice warm bath, ear cleaning and nail trim. They kept saying how handsome and sweet I was. I was so comfy after a while I didn't want to come out of the crate. Surely this must be retirement.

Turns out this was not retirement. They told me first you get a foster mom and a foster home. Lucky for me, my foster mom was there and she loaded me into her car and we road back to VA. I was really good on the ride home.  Foster mom rolled the windows down when we got by the water so I could smell the ocean air.

When we got to my foster home I met a new set of friends. There's two resident pups that have already found retirement. There's also another foster just like me. He's a cool pup that promised to show me the ropes.

That's my foster brother Decker, getting to know me(all about me). He showed me all around the yard and where all the cool pee spots are. I tried them all, every single one. Foster mom says I didn't miss any of them. She was positive.

Well I got a lot to learn before I get my forever home. My foster siblings are all eager to help me.  Foster mom says I could just use my dreamy eyes and any family will fall in love with me. I'm gonna go work on my slow blink while I take a nap.

See ya later
Woody