10/06/2026
Farm Friends, do you remember Grandpa Harry? Well Grandpa is living his absolute best life at age 13ish here at Hollow Creek Farm.
We thank his miraculous recovery to the fine work and incredible care by the amazing Dr. Gretchen Kelly who did his (glaucoma) eye removal surgery, and lumps and bumps removal. BIG thanks to the entire team at Foothills Animal Clinic (Forest City, NC)! Thanks to their awesome care, our sweet senior guy is thriving and enjoying every moment of his golden years.
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Grandpa Harry is a Hound Labrador Retriever type dog who came from animal control. He's been at Hollow Creek Farm for about three years.
We cannot recall where they found him but he was roaming about, stray, blind, Heart Worm positive, and covered in lumps and bumps of all sorts. He was going to be euthanized, so we said, "Let's give him a chance!"
Grandpa would not walk. At all. He was a hot mess when we got him to the vet. He was all discombobulated and so sad. And because he wouldn’t move they had to carry him. He literally would not walk. He was pinned to the ground and was going potty on himself. Grandpa wouldn’t walk because he was overwhelmed and terrified!
We had him neutered and took care of getting 12 lumps removed. (some of you wonderful Farm Friends donated to this!!) We did biopsies -- all negative -- and he came out fine from surgery. Then we brought him here and let him slowly get acclimated. We had to teach him how to walk and soon he was able to go everywhere!!
Then, Grandpa had his eye removed because he had glaucoma and his eye was really painful and ouchy. But not anymore!
Now he's a pirate who traverses the house, knows where the cookies are, comes for his pretend pills, walks around the yard with no problem, and likes all the other dogs! Yes, he can hear and he can definitely smell biscuits.
He goes to the front door when he has to potty.
Then he comes back to the door when he's done going potty.
He goes outside when he wants.
Basically, Grandpa gets and does whatever he wants. And get THIS: When everybody gets their pretend pills – some dogs get meds, others who see this happen, want to be a part of it, so we just give everyone pretend pills on a spoon. (Well, we have to. It's not fair otherwise.)
Except Grandpa!
Grandpa gets TWO pretend pills because he's an old dude.
He's perfectly fine. He's just a little slower.
Grandpa is staying here because we realized that if he had another big change he could shut down again and it's not fair to him. And we love Grandpa!!
Grandpa's daily checklist is:
🐕Enjoying leisurely afternoon walk-abouts.
🍪Eating lots (and lots!) of delicious cookies.
🫳Getting all the butt scratches his heart desires.♥️
🪒Relaxing during his routine brushings.
We are so incredibly grateful for the team at Foothills Animal Clinic that loves our senior rescues just as much as we do.
Cheers to more slow strolls, yummy treats, and pampering for our favorite old man!
