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Monday, March 09, 2009

Meet Molly, Our Newest Family Member

I wrote, not long ago, about my beautiful Becka going to the Rainbow Bridge. I miss Becka everyday. She was my wonderful companion and friend. Through Becka, I came to love the large hounds. So..

In the spirit of Becka, we have adopted Molly.

Here she is on the grooming table, about to get her nails done for the first time and she's none too sure she likes this experience....

Molly is a sweet, gentle, Black and Tan Coon Hound. She's six months old and already had a really crappy life.

Molly and her mother and four litter mates were abandoned and left to starve in West Virginia. When they were found, they were all near death. They went to a foster home in Florida where they were not properly cared for and ended up even sicker. As soon as the rescue organization learned of this, they were moved to a foster home in Virginia. From there, Molly was adopted by a young lady in New Jersey. This young lady really loved Molly, but she is a college student, constantly on the go, and she also couldn't properly care for Molly. So now we have her.

We got her a couple of weeks ago, and have completely fallen in love with her. She is wonderful!

She gets along well with Katie and Jake, our other dogs...and so far, the cats haven't swiped her very inquisitive nose....

3 comments:

Ron in Houston said...

I've always loved the name of the breed... Coon Hounds.

I assume this is a distinctly American breed?

rericson said...

There are several "Coon Hounds", Black and Tan, Calahoulla, Red Bone...I think even the Tennesee Walker is often referrred to as a Coon Hound....
But yes, the Black and Tan is a uniquely American breed...I can't remember all that went into the breed...American Fox Hound, Blood Hound....
My Becka was an English Foxhound...and absolutely gorgeous...she had the most beautiful movement you could want...and she loved showing...she would do everything but hold her own lead...I don't know if this little girl is ever going to look "good"...she was severely undernourished...but we may get an ILP number for her and do some agility or obediance work...we'll see...she's awfully sweet...

Anonymous said...

she looks like a great dog. i love big dogs too. i have 2 chocolate labs at present and in the past raised english pointers.

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