Jazzpurr

Cinnamon

I want to introduce you to Sunny's Roost's official greeters.   Previous greeters some of you may remember were Cinnamon and Jazzpurr, both of whom passed on. Currently we are training Madison and Spook for the position.  Both are two years old and both came from sketchy beginnings.

Madison

Madison is a rescue from a puppy mill in Tennessee.  When she was rescued she was about 3 weeks old and had already been separated from her mother so mother could  breed again.  My now daughter-in-law was a foster mother for small dogs and was called when the invasion of the puppy mill was planned.  She brought my son along and he told her she had to foster the small dachshund for his mother.  He then spent two months convincing me that even though I did NOT want a little dog who would blend in with the flooring in the entry and especially one not housebroken and still teething.  She was rescued in August and we collected her from Tennessee in November.  She was not at all sure about being housebroken in snow that reached her belly  so we would shovel off the grass for her.  

Spook

Spook came to us from the local SPCA.  See before Madison joined the family Bob began looking for a Shepard Husky mix, a breed we had had in Texas and he wanted to have again.  Having had no luck finding one we registered with the SPCA in case they "found" one in need of a good home.  The SPCA, in an attempt to find a good home for dogs who had been there a while tried to interest us in a rottweiler, a doberman and a lab mix.  We stood firm on the dog we wanted so they pulled a poor Shepard out of the back who hadn't been there long enough to be adopted yet.  She came out and after making the rounds of the people and greeting Madison (who came along to test suitability of her adopted sister) she walked up to Bob who was sitting on the sidelines as instructed) put her head in his lap, looked up at him and sighed. Guess who we signed papers for?  Spook had to stay an extra week just in case someone claimed her but considering she had been found locked in an abandoned home and was down to 55 pounds, we didn't think we would lose her.

Both our greeters are taking well to their new role in the Bed and Breakfast and look forward to greeting all our guests, human canine and feline (though, at this time, we only have one guest who travels with her cats)