Rolling Dog Farm Blog

I had forgotten that Alayne had taken this photo of blind Austin and not-blind Charlie acting like Japanese sumo wrestlers the day before Charlie was adopted.  It shows you that tough little Austin was not about to let the bigger, and now seeing, Charlie, push him out of the ring without a real fight!  That's Austin on the left and Charlie on the right.

I don't have any photos of Charlie with his new family yet, but Julie emailed us recently to say Charlie was doing very well in their home with Hugo, their other Beagle.  She wrote that she had looked at some of our recent blog posts about our various Beagles and said two comments really stood out:

"'Beagles + food = trouble!', and 'Beagles are binary: on or off.'  Absolutely true!  Also true is that Charlie sleeps a lot, he snuggles down on one of the three beds of choice and snores his head off!  After lots of slumber Charlie gets up for his mad run around the house, and Hugo looks up at me as if to say 'What on earth….' I am not sure which is funniest; Charlie running around, or Hugo's face!"

Julie added, "Charlie and Hugo love their food, it is their reason for being.  Charlie already knows where the treats are kept, and he knows that going out to 'use the garden' constitutes a treat, and it won't be too long before he learns Hugo's trick: go out into the garden every five minutes, wait a while, come back in… get a treat!"

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Still No. 1!

Please keep voting for the ranch every
day in The Animal Rescue
Site/PetFinder's Shelter Challenge. 
Thanks
to your votes, we came in third nationwide and won $3,000 for the
animals in the previous contest.  Now we have a shot at No. 1 and the
$20,000 grand prize!  Enter
"Rolling Dog Ranch" and our state postal code, MT for Montana,
and it will bring up our listing so you can cast your vote.  Please ask
your family and friends to vote, too.  Thank you!

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Another Online Shelter Contest:  We keep getting emails from people about Care2.com's America's Favorite Animal Shelter contest.  We do know about it but have decided not to promote it on the blog so we can keep everyone focused on the Shelter Challenge contest instead.  However, please feel free to vote for the ranch in this other contest if you'd like.  You'll need our zip code, which is 59854.