Turning Left at NHMS

Happy Wordless Wednesday!  The NELCAR Legends raced on the morning of the Sprint Cup race at NHMS last month.  The day before we displayed the Hooligan Motorsports #8 car at our sponsor, The Healthy Buffalo. 

 

SuperBen (aka Bentley)

As you know, we've had another adorable foster baby at the Lapdog B & B for a couple of weeks.  Meet Bentley, aka SuperBen!  During his stay with us he has learned so much, including how to jump from one couch to another, with ears straight out, flying like Superman!  In I tap my shoulders and call his name, he'll come flying into my lap.

 

He was originally listed as a wired haired terrier/pug mix, but that's obviously not the case.  He was found in a bucket by a river in TN with his litter mates, and while a few of them had the wired hair, Ben and at least one other did not.  He's got that really smooth, shiny coat like Lola has and luckily, like hers, it dries pretty fast because he thought the cooler (with left over melted ice water) was a pool...

 

We're 99% confident the little guy is a Boxer/Pug/Lab/something mix... just look at his perpetual pouty lips and long, lanky legs. He's also quite the little cuddle bug. He & I spent part of his second day here being lazy while Matt was in Maine fixing his race car... 

I'm actually pre-typing this post on Sunday evening to set for auto-post this week and suspect that by the time you read this, Bentley will be in his forever home in Massachusetts.  I spoke with his new Mama on Thursday night and it sounded like a perfect match, but she was away on vacation through the weekend, so the plan is for her to pick him up on Monday. 

At 16 weeks old, Ben is a bundle of energy and has been keeping all of the kids us on our toes.  He's been wrestling with whoever has the energy and when they don't, he's happily amusing himself with toys.  I'm thinking our spoiled brats kids' toys were the first he's ever really seen, as after being rescued he spent his time boarded at a vet's office because they didn't have a foster home available down South...

Bentley and Sophie, whom he's currently wrestling with on the couch...

Ben and Lola romping outside...

Boys being lazy, Bentley and Tut...

Ben took a big liking to following Zeus around outside whenever possible.  I'm not sure Zeus was too amused by his new little shadow, but they did bond over sticks...

 

He definitely knows his name , even when I call him Ben or Ben-Ben, so hopefully his new Mama doesn't want to change it!

 

Of course I have more cute photos, but I'll save those for another post...

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The Wee Ones

Happy Dogs on Thursday!  I'm playing a little bit of catch-up with photos... today it's more of the teeny tots, Rosie and Sookie (aka the two fosters we had last month).

Sookie was the first to leave us and head to her forever home in Vermont, where she has a furbrother named Murphy. 

Her new family has informed us that she's running Murphy ragged and enjoying life in Vermont.  That was enough to put a smile on my face, but hearing that she has a new name made that smile even bigger... the furball formerly known as Sookie is now Sophie!

Sookie/Sophie and Rosie, the two teeny-weeny peas in a pod...

 

Big Foster Brother Zeus keeping an eye on the babies...

Rosie is now living in my hometown with her humans and furbaby sister Rascal. While she was here, she really bonded with Lola and became quite the little shadow...

Rosie was definitely one of those fosters who made it really difficult to let her go...

The Lapdogs taught both girls learned about morning sun spots...

... as well as icies (aka ice cubes) and wrestle-mania...

Random shots of the kids with their foster sisters...

Saying goodbye...

First pictures from their forever homes (getting updates/photos is the best smile-inducer ever!)... Sookie/Sophie on the left and Rosie & her sister Rascal on the right.

Work has been keeping me crazy busy these past couple of weeks, but I promise pictures of our current foster Bentley coming very soon...