Southland

Back in April a friend and I visited Southland track in West Memphis, AR to pick up some dogs for the adoption group. While I wasn't just disgusted by what I saw - it's kind of expected, I guess - It did make me realize just how many of these dogs are available to be rescued and what an impact good adopters and foster families can have. From what I understand, these kennels aren't really bad at all. It was a bit sobering to know that we routinely give Bugs and Lana such high quality food and then realize "not for human consumption" is on every bag of (raw) food given to these dogs. That day we brought back three dogs - all have found homes - but so many more remain.


Here's the kennel. You could probably have 50-60 dogs in the building at any given time - it's kind of labyrinthine once you get in there, even though they just look like trailers with roofs from outside.

Here's the hauler they use to get the dogs from their kennels to the track. They race maybe a couple times a week - they run hard for about 2 minutes, and then it's over - which is why they are notoriously lazy and sleep all the time and don't need much exercise!

Here's the first thing I saw upon pulling up. That's their turnout for several times a day. A far cry from your yard, no matter how small or unaccommodating you think it may be!


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Happy Halloween!

We took the girls to the Halloween meet & greet this afternoon. This is them being sweet in the car on the way...



And their "costumes." Bugs' is very appropriate as opposed to Lana's. But we couldn't find an appropriate halo for her...
We'll have more to come soon since we haven't made a post on a while.