I did get to go wash some Greys today! And not a drop of rain! The clouds covered the sun a couple times, and the temp. wasn't quite WARM, but everyone had a great time.
I volunteered at the brushing station, so after the Greys were bathed, dried, ears cleaned and toenails clipped they came to me for a brushing and finishing spritz (made them really shiny!). I brushed dogs for about 3 hours or so, and I wish I'd counted how many I did! Loooots.
Now pictures! My dad took all these for me.
(Btw, I blurred some faces for privacy. I did a really bad job, but at least they're covered. lol!)
An overall view of the grooming area:
Bathing station #1 (they had two of these raised tubs outside):
Bathing station #2:
Drying:
A pen of fosters with toenail clipping and ear cleaning in the background:
Resist these foster faces!! All of them but the black one had/was recovering from a broken leg.
Beautiful black boy:
Two cuties:
Spotty baby (too cute!):
Here's me brushing (all the shots dad took of me I have really bad/wierd facial expressions. My apologies! lol)
The dog here with it's bum to the camera, his name was Roy, he caught my eye.
Roy:
I was slightly disappointed because none of the fosters really caught my heart (I sat in front of the foster pen all day, so that worked well
). Roy I made a point to remember because awhile after I was done grooming him, he came back over and stuck his head against my chest and just sat there. So we had a moment.
I didn't know he was a foster until awhile later, so I didn't get to ask any questions about him. I assumed he was owned by the people because he had a fancy collar on, and most the fosters I'd seen had plainer collars on.
I realized after I got home I could've been practically interviewing people (for food, grooming, product recommendations, as well as info. on individual fosters), and I totally missed my chance! I did talk to a few people about their fosters, but none could even tell me if their dog was cat safe because the circumstances they were tested under weren't very ideal I guess (end of a long day, lot of dogs had to be tested). There was one other small black boy I really liked, but I don't have even a decent picture of him. He was really sweet and affectionate.
Anyway. I did meet our rep., too, and she still seemed to be stalling (I started to wonder if she doesn't like me for some reason or if it's nothing personal?). She wouldn't even talk to me for very long. Plus, then I get home and my sister informs me she has a horse event this weekend (everyone has to be home for the home check, and my sis has been waiting for this once a year event all year. *sigh*). So I don't know what'll happen. I didn't even get a chance to ask our rep. if she still thought this weekend would work. So that part of the day (and not falling in love with a particular dog) was kind of disappointing. But I really appreciated all the experience handling the dogs and just getting to be there with them, so that was neat.
Funny story... This little boy was watching me pretty intently at one point while I'm grooming (I can see him out of the corner of my eye), so then he steps into my line of vision and says, "you're really good at this" with this totally earnest, adorable look on his face. He was the cutest thing! So sweet.