Today’s super star is Clooney, Chris Rock’s absolutely gorgeous Black and Tan coonhound. Chris adopted Clooney about five years ago and after looking at some of their accomplishments, they have not been still very much !! I am in awe of all the healing and joy they have spread throughout their community. It is very inspiring !
**Note photograph texts are taken from Chris’s comments on #lifewithmyrescuedcoonhound
SUPER CLOONEY !!
Chris shared with me that Clooney started off as a hunting dog, she is assured of that due to the tattoo in his ear. He was found in the woods thirty pounds underweight and ended up at the Humane Society. Chris immediately recognized what a special dog he is and as they say, “The rest is history.”
Clooney helping spread the word !!! Meet A Helping Hero day at Petco. Clooney and his buddy Chance talking to people about therapy dogs.
Clooney On the Job!!
Clooney and I visited a camp for kids who lost a parent or other close relative. It is put on by one of the local hospices. The kids just love giving Clooney big hugs. One of the kids told Clooney about his mama who had her sunset on January 24th.
Houndie hugs rock !
I have to post one more from our visit with kids with neurological disorders last night. This just melts my heart. Dogs are so amazing!
Clooney on a very important mission ! We went to Hero Day at Camp Weaver – for kids with wounded or fallen military parents. Clooney is taking a rest as we wait for the next set of kids to arrive.
Canine Good Citizen “BIG TIME !!!
A huge thank you to Chris Rock and Clooney for allowing me to share their awesome adventures of hope and healing. It is my great honor to welcome both of you to the “family”.
This post is about Jan Ferguson-Kramer’s fabulous redbone hound Dixie – yet another story of the heart, courage and endless magic of a coonhound!
From Jan:
Dixie was rescued when she was seven months old. She had five different parasites, was 20 pounds underweight, had infected ears and a hernia. No contact with human beings for seven months locked up in a crate. We took her to dog obedience class and they suggested that we try her as a therapy dog. That training was the best for her all around as she learned to let people touch her and love on her. Her trips to the nursing homes were always special. The patients there loved having the dogs there to play with. One trip to the VA hospital in particular, she went up to a man who was bedridden, and unable to move. Dixie jumped up on the bed, laid down next to him and he cried. She learned to give love as well as receive it from being a therapy dog. Dixie was benefiting as well as the people she was visiting. She LOVES them and they LOVE her right back!!
Noble Nurse Dixie
Jan, thank you for sharing your story and it is my honor to welcome you and Dixie to the “family”!
Julie Dutton’s amazing coonhound Ginny is a total super star !!! For anyone that ever doubted that coonhounds can be agility, obedience or any other kind of trained — well here you go !!!!
I adopted her three years ago (at the time she was estimated to be between 1.5-3yrs old). She was originally found as a stray in West Virginia and ended up at a Greyhound rescue in MA where I adopted her. I convinced my parents to let me visit the rescue for my 19th birthday (to actually originally look at a different dog) and within a few minutes of meeting her, I knew she was the one. Two days later, we brought her home and she has been such a blessing to have. I was working at a kennel at the time, but for the last two and a half years, have been working as a dog trainer at a training facility in Massachusetts. This has given me the opportunity to work with her around various distractions on a regular basis and as I learn more in the dog training world, challenged and inspired me to begin teaching her new things as well as practice what she already knows in various situations and environments. She still has a lot of potential in her training to learn more and while generally very good around every day distractions, still occasionally has trouble listening around certain distractions (I.e. deer), which we are working on. However, she has come a long way since I first adopted her, and I can’t imagine life without her!
Julie thank you again for sharing your amazing story and welcome to the family !
Your partnership with Ginny is just awe inspiring !!
No human shall be permitted into hound’s home without thorough scent inspection, including but not limited to, nostrils, eyelids, lip corners, ear canals, hair, beard, toes, and of course, butt cracks. Religious figures shall not be exempt.
While doing some research on rescue hounds that have in some way “saved “their humans, I came across this amazing story that is the epitomy of “who saved who”? that we hear so often. I have been given permission to share this story from “Hope Rises”, about a Southern hound named Victoria and her very thankful rescuer. Hope Rises is an oasis of hope in a world that is sometimes very scary. I recommend you check it out !!
Hope Rises (I love this) Cheektowaga, New York · Media/News Company
Igniting hope through stories of love and goodwill across the globe. This channel is meant to empower those through the beautiful actions and words of everyday people committing extraordinary acts. We are here to capture that and inspire the world.
Inspector Victoria!
Hope Rises is with Lauren Amy.
March 17 · Amherst, NY ·
HERO HOUND.
This rescue dog sniffed out cancer on her owner’s nose. Let’s all stop and hug our own dogs today for being incredibly, loyal angels. Read more from Lauren Amy.
“Victoria came from a rural shelter in South Carolina and brings us laughter and adventure. But recently, she brought me much more.
Last spring, I noticed a small bump on my nose and assumed it was a pimple or scratch. It went away. And then seemed to come back. And what was particularly odd was that Victoria would fixate on it, and sniff the spot like crazy. She was so persistent that I made an appointment with a doctor to have it looked at. I also captured a photo of her inspection.
What Victoria had detected was confirmed by a biopsy.
I had basal cell carcinoma on my nose. The lesion grew under my skin, requiring cosmetic surgical repair of the hole it left behind.
I have no doubt that without Victoria’s help, that lesion would have remained in my face longer and caused further disfigurement and even risked metastasis.”
#HopeRises
Grateful rescuer and Super hero hound
Houndie hugs !
March 20 at 7:19am · Amherst, NY ·
The story we posted about the HERO HOUND is now featured on MSN News! #HopeRises …
Addition from MSN News Story
Thanks to her heroic hound Victoria, who she adopted eight months ago from her organization Magic’s Mission Beagle and Hound Rescue, she had her symptoms checked out early. Lauren said: “When she came to us in the shelter she arrived with a very badly damaged eye. After fostering her we fell in love and decided to adopt her. “While we don’t know what caused the injuries to her eye, many hounds sustain wounds while hunting because they are brave and hardly think of what they are running through when chasing something.” According to Lauren, Victoria has more than returned the favor of being rescued.
Information below is quoted from founder Lauren Gauthier’s rescue Magic’s Mission Beagle and Hound Rescue
”In Every Heart, There’s A Little Magic
Welcome to Magic’s Mission Beagle and Hound Rescue, Inc. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dog rescue founded in 2015 in loving memory of our 3-legged senior rescue dog named Magic. He was an inspiration to everyone that met him. We started this rescue in an effort to help senior dogs, special needs dogs and other dogs in dire situations get the help they so desperately need.
https://www.magicsmission.com/
Whether you are seeking your new best friend or looking for a way you can help, we have a lot of information to share. Come on in and find out what you can do to help and be a part of our community!”
Check out the web site and rescue page. They are doing great work for hounds in need !!!
I recently came across a “survey” of popularity for dog breeds in the USA compiled by the AKC and of course I had to dive in and “check the coonhounds”. To my surprise Treeing Walker Coonhounds, described as being brave, smart, and courteous, having the ability to quicken our pulse with their “powerful and propulsive hind quarters working to cover maximum ground with minimal effort”, possessing a beautiful tri color coat, and the ability to melt your heart “basking in the warmth of a campfire after an honest night’s work”. And I quote “this sweet-faced hound will look up and stir your soul with his gentle, pleading expression. ( Note illustration of the gentle pleading expression below). Mercy, what a pretty picture! No wonder Treeing Walkers are called the People’s Choice”. Whoo hoooooooo !! YAY !! Awesome! totally agree !!! Ranking ???? 137 out of 194 ??? Immediately my feathers are extremely ruffled. I called for Riley B my faithful and trusty TWC mix so that I could quickly do some healing stretches to calm myself down !!!!
Another dreaded sweltering day in the South — Just the perfect time to share more of the hilarious photos from some of my coonhound comrades! Thanks ladies for sharing Sally, Shawn, and Kaiser with us ! And of course I had to include my own boy Riley B!
ENJOY!!!
Who are you? Staying in the pool !
#Hounddoghilari0us
And I repeat!!! I am NOT a crook !UGH! It is WAY too hot for a photo shoot !
