best friends photo contest

Over the past few days many of you visited the Best Friends Photo Contest website and voted on a brand new photo of 14 year old GREYHOUNDS cover boy Slim for People’s Choice. It was a VERY close race and those of your who were following know that Slim was in 1st place for a good portion of the day yesterday! Late in the evening we ended up in 2nd place, but we are so thankful to everyone who took the time to participate!

Slim also would like to thank everyone who voted for him and his little IG friends. He congratulates Lisha Platta and her photo of the happy brown dog for a great competition. In the end he is really the winner no matter what… He had a good racing career, he has wonderful sister greyhound companions and a nurturing home where he has been happy for almost 10 years. All he wanted was for lots of people to see his picture in order to raise awareness for all the greyhounds who are currently about to be in need of homes when the Dairyland Park Racetrack closes 12/31/09. Slim wishes them the best and hopes that some of the people who have looked at his beautiful 14 year old continence surrounded by the vibrant IG pups will consider adopting a greyhound as a lifelong companion. If not now, then in the future.

Happy Slimmaversary, 10 years…
How lucky are Barbara, Turtle, Fancy, Easton (somewhere with a knowing smile) and Slim on 12/27/09.

greyhounds holiday cards!

Things have been a little quiet here at the Hound Blog, but we wanted to let you know about 4 brand new greyhounds holiday card designs we have up at our Etsy shop! The cards are beings sold in sets of 8, either individual designs or assortment packs. The cards are 5×7″ and sold with matching envelopes. (And we have to admit the print quality is gorgeous!)

These cards a perfect for spreading greyhound-style holiday cheer!

happy birthday slim!

Saturday was our cover model Slim’s birthday!

Slim Image is the most remarkable, handsome, youthful 14 year old greyhound in the Karant household. All the 2 and 4 legged girls are very happy to have you in our midst. We love you Slim!

Greyhound-Data Stats:

color: Blue Brindle
sex: male
weight: 32 kg ~ 71 lbs (don’t we wish…)
date of birth: 8 AUG 1995
land of birth: US USA
land of standing: US USA
ear mark: 85B-50547

northcoast greyhounds raffle

Check out this great new raffle at northcoastgreyhounds.net!!

The raffle features four 11×14″ mounted and UV laminated fine art photographs from Barbara’s Eyes Series, as well as a lovely sterling silver greyhounds charm bracelet and a signed copy of Greyhounds!

This raffle’s proceeds will benefit Greyhounds Only, Inc.

Be sure to check it out HERE as the raffle ends Monday, April 27th at 5:00 pm!!

just a quick note for today…

“1000 greyhounds”

Hello!

First: A quick apology to anyone who has been checking in regularly, only to find that updates to the Hound Blog have been a bit less regular recently. We are still here and goin’ strong! Lots of exciting things have been brewing here at the studio, keeping us pretty busy. More on that soon!

Second: Thanks so much to everyone who came out to our Hearts and Hounds celebration last month. Of course, a great time was had by all, humans and hounds alike. We will be posting photos from the event in the near future.

Third: So many wonderful items were donated to the Hearts and Hounds fundraiser auction- we can’t stress HOW MUCH we appreciate everyone’s generosity.

One item that caught our attention in particular was an adorable screen print poster from Chicago Printmaker and Artist, Diana Sudyka:

You may recognize Diana’s work from various gig posters around town, but she also has great prints of animals, historical figures and other ephemera available for sale on her website and at her Etsy shop. We also like her blog, The Tiny Aviary.

It turns out, Diana is also a fan of greyhounds and has teamed up with a few other artists, Tim Gough, Largemammal Design, and Mile 44 in an effort to help the nonprofit group, Greyhound Angels Adoption celebrate 1000 greyhound adoptions! The 4 artists are offering limited edition prints for sale to benefit GAA. The prints can be purchased individually or in a set of four. What a great chance to own some awesome artwork while simultaneously helping the greyhounds! We love it. Check out the Large Mammal Print website for more info.

just a friendly reminder…

For more info and to buy tickets online, check out the Greyhounds Only website.

Hope to see you there.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

doggie love…

A little something for Gotham Canine’s resident hound, Memphis:

greyhounds on gotham canine and mutt lynch winery

There was a little surprise for us on the web today: Gotham Canine is featuring our valentines! We’ve been fans of Gotham Canine for a while now so were were delighted to find ourselves featured there. Felicia, who runs the site, does a great job of seeking out new and interesting dog finds (just check out the blog to see what we mean) and her Valentine’s Day write-up is so thoughtful and sweet. Nicely done and our heartfelt thanks, Felicia!

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Additionally, Mutt Lynch Winery, an awesome dog-centric California winery, included a nice little write-up about us on their site:

Mutt Lynch Winery appeals to wine and dog-lovers of all types, and their labeling is great too:

Chris and Brenda run the winery and their greyhound Patch helps out as much as possible:

They write,

Patch. The winery dog. Well sort of. Patch’s idea of helping out at the winery looks suspiciously like his activities at the house – find the most comfortable place available, lie down, fall asleep, move only if forced to do so. Forklifts and picking bins seem to be in “his” way, not vice-versa. To his credit, Patch is a rescue ex-racing Greyhound from New Zealand who had a stellar career down-under. He was the king of his kennel so to speak, and thinks he still should be! His racing these days is limited to chasing squirrels and cats, when he’s not sleeping of course.

Believe us, we understand!

Patch is giving his friend Roxie one of our valentines for the holiday. Very sweet. We’ll be curious to hear how it goes…

greyhounds on pamperedpuppy.com

The lovely folks over at at pamperedpuppy.com are featuring Greyhounds on their site for the month of February, issue #83! Pampered Puppy is “the web’s largest online magazine and shopping portal devoted to luxury lifestyles for dogs,” so of course we are thrilled and flattered to be included!

The article, which was penned by Nicole Feliciano, is well written and informative. (Thanks so much, Nicole!) Check it out here.

While we’re on the topic of articles and interviews, the interview that Barbara did with Steve Dale in December is now available online for your listening pleasure: Listen here.