First Picture of Me in a Long While

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Good to read your story Richard. It is great work that you do. You must have plenty of space around the house I guess to be able to take that many dogs in.

We are fortunate that the first house we purchased went up in value quite drastically. It was a small tract home with a postage-stamp size yard. We realized that with our love of dogs, we needed a much larger home and a bigger yard. About fifteen years ago we were able to sell our small house (near the ocean) and purchase a far larger home (inland) for the same price which we sold the smaller home. This is not unusual in our area because, the closer you get to the ocean, the cooler it is in the summer and the more expensive the property.





Anyway, we live in a large home with a large fenced-in yard. The floors of our home are all tile (our temperate climate is ideal for tile floors) so we have no problems if our rescue dogs are not house trained when the come to us. We have an electric Hoover floor cleaner and we can easily keep our home relatively spotless and odor free - even with a large number of dogs. This is how our family room will look when we have more than one litter of rescue puppies...



We don't keep our dogs in pens of any kind (except for puppies) because we believe that a dog needs to be in a house to become house trained. Our rescue work began as a small, part-time activity and now takes more time and effort than did both of our full time jobs before we retired.

We have a big goldendoodle (golden retriever + standard poodle) who loves the little Maltese and acts as a therapy dog for the ones who are fearful of big dogs...



She just loves the Maltese puppies...



All in all, it is a happy but busy life for us... I still find time for photography.