Eric and Carol adopted Rosie and over the first 8 years of her living in our home, she has grown more and more comfortable in our home. Eric just put together a little video celebrating our girl Rosie who we adopted from the Amador county animal shelter in early 2011. Hopefully this video shows that there are wonderful dogs out there who deserve rescuing and that even an 11 year old dog can lead a very full life.
Safe travels all!
Eric and Carol Anderson
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Celebrating our girl Rosie and advocating for older dogs in your home
While living in Amador county, Eric got involved in walking dogs at the Amador county animal shelter every Sunday. As Carol and Eric started their full time living in an RV at 49er RV park in Plymouth, Eric was walking one scared little girl Rosie.
Eric and Carol adopted Rosie and over the first 8 years of her living in our home, she has grown more and more comfortable in our home. Eric just put together a little video celebrating our girl Rosie who we adopted from the Amador county animal shelter in early 2011. Hopefully this video shows that there are wonderful dogs out there who deserve rescuing and that even an 11 year old dog can lead a very full life.
Safe travels all!
Eric and Carol Anderson
Eric and Carol adopted Rosie and over the first 8 years of her living in our home, she has grown more and more comfortable in our home. Eric just put together a little video celebrating our girl Rosie who we adopted from the Amador county animal shelter in early 2011. Hopefully this video shows that there are wonderful dogs out there who deserve rescuing and that even an 11 year old dog can lead a very full life.
Safe travels all!
Eric and Carol Anderson
Saturday, April 20, 2019
LaWren Wagoner
Ever since Carol's first day working at Cal Fire, LaWren Wagoner had been working along side her as an exam analyst in the HR department. The ladies in the Exam unit have, for a number of years had an annual 'Girls Weekend out' trip to get away from it all and to see some place new. In 2015, when the ladies were on their trip to Las Vegas, LaWren was looking a little ill and went to a hospital. Doctors in Las Vegas performed some tests and were able to make LaWren feel a little better. However, Doctors let LaWren know that they were concerned and wanted her to see her regular doctor as soon as possible.
Upon her return home, LaWren found out shortly there after from her Doctors that she had pancreatic cancer and she immediately started treatment to fight it. The subsequent years LaWren returned to work and enjoyed life with her friends and family. One of the highlights was the ability for LaWren, along with her husband Walt, having the opportunity to witness her daughter Kamree marry the man of her dreams Kory Willhelm and start a life of their own.
All the while LaWren continued to wage her valiant battle against the pancreatic cancer. Despite the fight she was waging, LaWren made the most of her life including trips to see Kamree's new home in Louisiana and still get away with her co-workers including Carol, Tiffany and Dianna on their annual girls trips out of town.
Early in February, LaWren ended her long battle with Pancreatic cancer. LaWren's husband Walt passed away in 2018, and now, LaWren too is able to rest in peace.
We miss you LaWren, we love you and your family. We always have, and we always will.
Safe travels all!
Eric and Carol Anderson
Upon her return home, LaWren found out shortly there after from her Doctors that she had pancreatic cancer and she immediately started treatment to fight it. The subsequent years LaWren returned to work and enjoyed life with her friends and family. One of the highlights was the ability for LaWren, along with her husband Walt, having the opportunity to witness her daughter Kamree marry the man of her dreams Kory Willhelm and start a life of their own.
All the while LaWren continued to wage her valiant battle against the pancreatic cancer. Despite the fight she was waging, LaWren made the most of her life including trips to see Kamree's new home in Louisiana and still get away with her co-workers including Carol, Tiffany and Dianna on their annual girls trips out of town.
Early in February, LaWren ended her long battle with Pancreatic cancer. LaWren's husband Walt passed away in 2018, and now, LaWren too is able to rest in peace.
We miss you LaWren, we love you and your family. We always have, and we always will.
Safe travels all!
Eric and Carol Anderson
Sunday, April 7, 2019
Eric's 57th Birthday
Like many of us, Eric finds snow a beautiful thing to behold. And this years winter has been one that is close to something for the record books. Though at one point in time, we lived in an area that was
full of snow, we have also come to the conclusion that snow is something that is nice to visit, but don't really want to live in. In our younger years, it was nice to occasionally break out the snow shovel and the snow blower, but those days are now long gone.
Now, that we live in the Sacramento valley, we do like to visit the snow once in a while. So, for Eric's birthday, Carol took Eric, as well as Rosie and Charlie, on a day trip up highway 50 to check out the snow. Our first stop was in Placerville to have lunch. Then, we drove up past Bridal Veil Falls. We just enjoyed the meandering drive up US 50 until we got to the point where the snow fall was getting pretty heavy and just didn't feel like driving up the hill any further.
On our way back, we then stopped in Pollock Pines at a Safeway Starbucks for a warm drink and to watch the snow fall pretty heavily. Deciding we better hit the road and get down out of the snow, we continued our drive towards home.
In the early evening, Carol and Eric got to celebrate Eric's birthday with Katie at Cattleman's. As always, Eric truly enjoyed his birthday celebration, primarily because it included those most important to Eric in his life.
Safe travels all!
Eric and Carol Anderson
On our way back, we then stopped in Pollock Pines at a Safeway Starbucks for a warm drink and to watch the snow fall pretty heavily. Deciding we better hit the road and get down out of the snow, we continued our drive towards home.
In the early evening, Carol and Eric got to celebrate Eric's birthday with Katie at Cattleman's. As always, Eric truly enjoyed his birthday celebration, primarily because it included those most important to Eric in his life.
Safe travels all!
Eric and Carol Anderson
Monday, February 4, 2019
Flying in Sacramento in January of 2019
The Sacramento area is a beautiful area to fly, especially after a weather system moves through and does a great job of clearing the air. Given his involvement with the CDCR drone team, Eric welcomes any opportunity he can get to fly our DJI Spark.
Safe Travels all!
Eric & Carol Anderson
Safe Travels all!
Eric & Carol Anderson
Sunday, February 3, 2019
A bitter sweet start to 2019
The year of 2019 starts out like any year, where you hope for one that is happier and contains less drama than the year prior. For us, 2019 started out with lots of family gatherings starting with a couple trips up to Amador County to meet with Carol’s family members and enjoy a couple of games of Bowling at Amador Lanes with fun conversations with the Waite family and just basically enjoying each other’s company.
Unfortunately, prior to even completing the month of January of 2019, we had to make one of the most difficult decisions in our lives. On one evening in October of 2018, as Eric was reaching down to kiss Rex good night, Rex reached up to Eric and bit him in the face. Though Eric was not seriously injured, one of the lacerations appeared that it might require stitches and so we went off to the hospital to have Eric’s injuries checked by a doctor. Thankfully, none of the injuries were serious and after the wounds were cleaned and some anti-biotics applied we were sent on their way home.
Unfortunately because of the visit to the ER for a dog bite, the incident had to be reported by the hospital to the Sacramento County Animal control. This meant that now Rex had what amounted to a ‘Scarlet’ letter on his record. We then reached out to our veterinarian as well as a well-respected Dog Behaviorist organization in the Sacramento area seeking guidance on what was our best course of action moving forward. With our vet deferring to an evaluation by the behaviorists called Tug dogs, we met with them for an evaluation of Rex. Their conclusion was that Rex did not show signs of aggression that could be regularly triggered. Their concern that this incident would not be a ‘One-off’ incident and that when we least expected it, a similar incident would occur.
Over the next few months we both worked with Rex by increasing his training and exercise to help re-enforce our roles as Pack leader as well as trying to ensure that a “Tired dog is a good dog”. We also worked to make sure that Rex felt included as part of our family and did not feel like we were trying to distance ourselves from him.
During the holidays, things seemed to be going fairly well until one night in early January when a fight almost broke out between Rosie and Rex with Eric in between them. As the situation developed, Eric scruffed Rex and this resulted in Rex attempting to redirect to Eric in order to get free. Fortunately in this incident, no one was injured but we were both deeply concerned. Subsequent evenings, both of us had separate evenings where Rex growled at some point during the evening.
Given this series of events as well as the fact that Rex still tended to escalate play to a point where the other dog Rex was interacting with would get injured; we were deeply concerned that no one was safe. We also acknowledged that everyone was living on pins and needles. When Rex got too assertive with Charlie, Charlie would not correct Rex or fight back and just let himself be injured. Rosie would attempt to correct Rex, but these incidents would just continue to escalate to a point where in most cases, both dogs were injured.
We researched this behavior, keeping in mind Rex’s history. We have had him since he was a 9 week old Puppy. We recalled that because Rex, his siblings and mother were running lose, his initial rescuers were able to capture Rex and his siblings, but their mother got away. This resulted in none of the puppies getting proper socialization by their mother prior to being weaned off from her. Studies have shown that puppies raised in this situation, frequently end up showing unexpected aggression as they grow to be adults.
With all of this, we knew that humane euthanasia was our only responsible course of action. So, at 3:00 PM on Monday the 28th of January, Rex was put to sleep. We are both deeply impacted by this development. Both of us love Rex and valued him as a member of our family. We just wish there was some way we could have explained to him how important it was for him to change his behavior to save his own life.
We love you Rex, we always have and we always will. Run free our baby boy… we love you and miss you!
To all the followers of our blog, please give your furry friends an extra hug this day.
Safe travels all!
Eric and Carol Anderson
Unfortunately, prior to even completing the month of January of 2019, we had to make one of the most difficult decisions in our lives. On one evening in October of 2018, as Eric was reaching down to kiss Rex good night, Rex reached up to Eric and bit him in the face. Though Eric was not seriously injured, one of the lacerations appeared that it might require stitches and so we went off to the hospital to have Eric’s injuries checked by a doctor. Thankfully, none of the injuries were serious and after the wounds were cleaned and some anti-biotics applied we were sent on their way home.
Unfortunately because of the visit to the ER for a dog bite, the incident had to be reported by the hospital to the Sacramento County Animal control. This meant that now Rex had what amounted to a ‘Scarlet’ letter on his record. We then reached out to our veterinarian as well as a well-respected Dog Behaviorist organization in the Sacramento area seeking guidance on what was our best course of action moving forward. With our vet deferring to an evaluation by the behaviorists called Tug dogs, we met with them for an evaluation of Rex. Their conclusion was that Rex did not show signs of aggression that could be regularly triggered. Their concern that this incident would not be a ‘One-off’ incident and that when we least expected it, a similar incident would occur.
Over the next few months we both worked with Rex by increasing his training and exercise to help re-enforce our roles as Pack leader as well as trying to ensure that a “Tired dog is a good dog”. We also worked to make sure that Rex felt included as part of our family and did not feel like we were trying to distance ourselves from him.
Given this series of events as well as the fact that Rex still tended to escalate play to a point where the other dog Rex was interacting with would get injured; we were deeply concerned that no one was safe. We also acknowledged that everyone was living on pins and needles. When Rex got too assertive with Charlie, Charlie would not correct Rex or fight back and just let himself be injured. Rosie would attempt to correct Rex, but these incidents would just continue to escalate to a point where in most cases, both dogs were injured.
We researched this behavior, keeping in mind Rex’s history. We have had him since he was a 9 week old Puppy. We recalled that because Rex, his siblings and mother were running lose, his initial rescuers were able to capture Rex and his siblings, but their mother got away. This resulted in none of the puppies getting proper socialization by their mother prior to being weaned off from her. Studies have shown that puppies raised in this situation, frequently end up showing unexpected aggression as they grow to be adults.
With all of this, we knew that humane euthanasia was our only responsible course of action. So, at 3:00 PM on Monday the 28th of January, Rex was put to sleep. We are both deeply impacted by this development. Both of us love Rex and valued him as a member of our family. We just wish there was some way we could have explained to him how important it was for him to change his behavior to save his own life.
We love you Rex, we always have and we always will. Run free our baby boy… we love you and miss you!
To all the followers of our blog, please give your furry friends an extra hug this day.
Safe travels all!
Eric and Carol Anderson
Saturday, January 5, 2019
Christmas 2018
Our Christmas holiday season was once again a busy one where we hooked up with both Carol and Eric's family members. This year, we stayed at the Gold Country Campground in Pine Grove California which is in Amador County. Though we started decorating our rig and site in Rancho Cordova, the majority of the festivities took place in Amador county and Ashland Oregon.
We arrived in Amador county on Sunday and spent all day Monday and Tuesday in the Pioneer/Pine Grove area. We stayed at the Gold Country RV park in Pine Grove. On Monday morning, Katie and Russ stopped by for a gift exchange and lunch.
On Christmas eve, a majority of the family gathered at Sandy and Bills in Pioneer for Sandy's annual Buffet dinner and our gag gift exchange. We were glad to see that Richard Conner made it up from Sacramento as well to spend time with the family.
On Christmas day, we joined Sandy and Bill visiting Billy and Loretta at their home in Pine Grove. Prior to having a tasty Crab dinner, the group enjoyed a poker game where Eric and Carol returned to the motorhome $1.25 richer than they left with! :-)
On the day after Christmas, Wednesday, we headed the motorhome up to Ashland Oregon to spend time with the Wraight clan. Though we have visited Oregon virtually every holiday season, we stayed for the first time at the RV park at Emigrant Lake. This is a wonderful new place to call our home base when visiting Ashland.
One of the highlights of that visit was spending time at a hands on science center which is focused on an experience for young visitors.
Check out our video which covers our holiday adventures.
Safe Travels all!
Eric and Carol Anderson
We arrived in Amador county on Sunday and spent all day Monday and Tuesday in the Pioneer/Pine Grove area. We stayed at the Gold Country RV park in Pine Grove. On Monday morning, Katie and Russ stopped by for a gift exchange and lunch.
On Christmas eve, a majority of the family gathered at Sandy and Bills in Pioneer for Sandy's annual Buffet dinner and our gag gift exchange. We were glad to see that Richard Conner made it up from Sacramento as well to spend time with the family.
On Christmas day, we joined Sandy and Bill visiting Billy and Loretta at their home in Pine Grove. Prior to having a tasty Crab dinner, the group enjoyed a poker game where Eric and Carol returned to the motorhome $1.25 richer than they left with! :-)
On the day after Christmas, Wednesday, we headed the motorhome up to Ashland Oregon to spend time with the Wraight clan. Though we have visited Oregon virtually every holiday season, we stayed for the first time at the RV park at Emigrant Lake. This is a wonderful new place to call our home base when visiting Ashland.
One of the highlights of that visit was spending time at a hands on science center which is focused on an experience for young visitors.
Check out our video which covers our holiday adventures.
Safe Travels all!
Eric and Carol Anderson
Saturday, December 22, 2018
Potters rescue - Dec. 21st, 2018
On November 8th, 2018, a wildland fire broke out near the town of Paradise in Northern California. It turned out to be the most deadly and devastating wildland fires in California history. The effects of the smoke could be felt as far south as Sacramento and even Stockton.
Over 15,000 homes, and 5,000 businesses were destroyed. One family of 5 who lost everything reached out to Chako Pit Bull Rescue and advocacy for help. There was a pit bull that the mother had rescued from a closed KMart parking lot in Oroville in August of 2018 at the age of about 3 months. The puppy, now 6 months old was part of a family who had lost their home, their business and were about to start living out of their car. The mom and the four kids did not want to give up the dog, but they needed to do something to try to make life work again. So they had to give up this puppy that they had rescued and called Malta. Eric and Charlie left Sacramento at 4:30 AM on a Saturday morning to drive up to Redding to see if Malta might be a suitable dog to enter the Chako Foster program.
After doing the Chako behavior evaluation, Eric decided that Malta could become a foster dog of Chako's and start his search for his new forever home.
The following is a little video that Eric put together about the adventure of going to pick up Malta, who would later be named Potter once he entered the Chako Foster program.
Sadly, when Potter went into get neutered at the Chako veterinarian, he must have come across some parvo virus, because 5 days after his surgery, Potter developed the Parvo virus. Potter has been treated and released from the veterinary hospital and is on crate rest while he recovers from his bout with the Parvo virus. Though he is not out of the woods yet, the entire Chako team is hoping he will make a full recovery.
Safe travels!
Carol and Eric Anderson
Safe travels!
Carol and Eric Anderson
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