I've brought client dogs, foster dogs, and Nettie out to Caz over the years. Looking back, I pulled some of my favorite photos from those trips. Somehow I don't have any photos of the wonderful dogs from the family that owns this place. I have pics of them elsewhere, and even brought some of them here myself, but can't find any evidence.
If you click on the photos they get big and you can view it like a slideshow. In no particular order -
Lulu!
Lulu and Buna!
I have a zillion shots of these ladies wrestling in the yard, but they're all blurry. Buna was my foster and Lulu belongs to good friends. Long live Lulu and Buna!
Donovan and Buna - Both fosters
Donovan, in all his brindle glory. I brought him home on a whim when he was skinny and wormy. I remember telling him I'd never fall in love with him - which was important because I was crazy for Buna. Donovan was really high drive and quite a challenge at first, but he eventually rolled out of my care into a home with a small dog and got his Canine Good Citizenship cert. Some of my finest work. And I totally fell for him. If I could go back in time, I'd keep him.
Donovan and Buna enjoying a downed Doug fir as one big stick!
Harpo, the flashiest foster. I have dozens of gorgeous photos of this guy. And several photos of dogs on this particular redwood in Austin Creek. I revisit several perches and spots with the dogs. Same watering holes, downed trees, swimming holes.
Jilly, aka the Jillyfish, a weekender foster dog. With the support of a pit bull advocacy group, another woman and I got Jilly and 6 other pit bulls from a hoarding case in Texas in 2012-ish. That was a long drive! Jilly waited a long time for a home. This was a trip to give her some one on one time as she waited. Jilly took to the water faster than any pit bull I've ever seen. She was in heaven here.
Robin - another foster. happier here than anywhere.
Beast - another foster, overlooking the Russian River valley. Heartbreaker.
Beast in Desert Hot Springs... Not on theme, but this pic is hilarious!
Chula - cuz not all of my foster dogs have been pit bulls. This little lady was special. She was in a litter of puppy fosters when I did a house sitting stint back at Pooches' Playtime after grad school. She was adopted out, and then ended up stray and back with Pooches'. Eventually she came to stay with me until she was adopted again to a great family. It was cool to be able to give them pictures and videos of her as a spunky puppy. She was the star of her litter. Chihuahuas forever!
Nettles, the keeper, AKA Princess Baby.
If I'd kept Donovan or Beast or Buna or Chula, I wouldn't have this little gem. She loves the redwood sticks and sun on the porch in the afternoon. She's got the hand-me-down alien toy from the pic with Robin on her flirt pole in the yard. And old toys and sweaters from this whole crew of dogs that came before her.
It was fun to look back at the foster dogs of the 2010's. There were several more, but they either didn't come out here or I can't find the pics. I've been trying to get into a housing situation where I can foster again. Maybe with all this change, something like that will shake loose.