Scout's Fun Run

Scout caused everyone to laugh when she raced because she didn't know what to do when she came out of the box. The laughter turned to cheers when Scoutie started running though.

Going to the box.

Coming out of the box.

"What do I do now?"

"Where are you going, kid?"


"You're supposed to go that way."



"Oh, it's okay."

"Ready, Set, Go!!!"

"That's it! You've got it now!"

"Look at her go!"

I love the reaction of the lady in the background. She is clapping and smiling. We have several more photos showing Scout's run, but I didn't want to bore anyone. I thought these were so cute showing the story of her fun run.

Thanks for looking,
Jack and Scout's Proud Mama

Jack's photos will be published tomorrow.

We are tired!

We are home! We arrived home around 4 p.m. yesterday. It was an 8 hour trip, but it wasn't as bad as Mama expected it to be. We stopped three times, so that made it nice.

This is what we have done most of today. We did stay in the office with Mama. We didn't want her to get lonely.



We had storms this morning, so Mama tried something that she learned at the greyhound event. A vet spoke to the group and gave all sorts of tips. His assistant has a dog that is scared of storms like me and she puts a t-shirt on him during storms. She makes it tight around the stomach and then ties it with a rubber band. Guess what? I didn't get scared during the storm this morning! We have more storms coming tonight, so Mama said she will try it again and hopefully it continues to work for me.


Scout gave me a strange look, but I don't care. If it keeps me from getting so scared, it is worth it.

Jack,
The greyhound who is trying to conquer his storm fears

Fun Run Photos

I'm posting some photos of us in the fun run. Here is Scout. She did pretty good after they told her what to do. Mama has some funny photos of her when she came out of the box and didn't know what to do, but here she is running.




Here I am. See the dirt flying as I am coming out of the box?



It was so much fun! Mama and Daddy can't stop talking about it.

Jack,
The retired racer who is remembering the racing life today

Fun Run - Video

Tonight was the fun run. It was so exciting. I couldn't believe I was back at the track. As soon as I heard the lure, I went nuts. I mean completely nuts. I was trying to get at it. Mama and Daddy both had to hold me down. Daddy ended up taking me out to the car until my turn. When they were putting my racing silks on and I was waiting my turn, Mama had to straddle me to hold me down. I'm sure it was quite funny looking. Daddy was holding unto my collar and Mama was straddling me. Scout didn't care. The lure didn't excite her. We knew that Scout never raised, but we thought she went to school. It's obvious now that she didn't. You know what Scout did? They put her in the box to start the race and when the box opened, Scout walked out and looked around. Everyone laughed at her. They decided to just let her race the lure without the starting box. Here is her video. It's not very good because we do not have a video camera, this is just Mama's regular camera. Mama is tickled to have this memory though.



This is me running. Again, the quality is not very good, but Mama loves it. Even replaying this gets me excited.

After the race we were cooled down and later we were given yogurt and we each received a medal. A photographer was at the fun run taking photos. Mama hopes to frame the photos with our medals. She is so proud of us.

Mama and Daddy left us a lot today. They said we needed to rest up for the "Fun Run" which is tonight.





They toured another greyhound farm. They saw a lot of puppies.





They also visited the National Greyhound Association. Mama said it was interesting, but I fell asleep while she was telling me about it.

I'll update you after the fun run, but don't wait up because we will be out late tonight. There will be yogurt after the fun run and awards. It will probably be 10 p.m. when we get back. That's really late for us.

Jack,
A very tired greyhound