have a puppy

We have a puppy now :)
She was 5 weeks when we got her. Her name is Lolly & she is a winnie-dog/poodle mix LOL….i know how strange that sounds but she is absolutely cute!!

Well we have the puppy for a whole week. It is fun but not really sure if I am quite ready yet to get one of my own.. I will see in a couple of years , if eventually I get summers off.

I often look at dog poeple and think that they are the coolest people. Then I think ..do I really want this responsibility? So my friend is lending me her dog while she goes back home for a few days.. technically I will have a puppy for 9 days.. I will keep post how it went

one day I will have a puppy of my choice, but for now, the time is not right.

this is sad. real sad.

I am adopting virtual miniature pets, to account for my desire for a real one. (i spend nearly as much time taking care of them as I would a real one!)...

the sweet little guy was running terrified through a torrential downpour.

Saturday, we watched him go through three yards, looking for a place to take cover. As we watched a car nearly ran him over, so I ran out, and grabbed him up and brought him to our porch. He was just covered in fleas!

Somehow he made it in the house, and we could tell he was definately an indoor dog. He was a chewer, so we gave him a rope toy… and he liked following us about. He got along fairly well with patrick… who despite his large size was quite calm and mainly curious.

We put all kinds of ads in on petfinder, the paper, craigslist.

I was starting to fall in love with him, but I did the right thing and went knocking on doors… Oreo belongs to an older woman a couple of houses down. They have been rejoined.

it might have been a little juvenile the way I handled it… but it was kinda fun.

She was going out with friends, and asked me if I was alright with it. I was (but I knew the longer we talked about it, the more likely I was to find some emotional well inside me overflow), and decided I needed to get out of the house, too. She asked where I was going, I said “I dunno, I was thinking about buying a puppy.” she was silent… really silent.

Now, here is the deal, we’ve been trying to watch the money even more than usual, so the timing for large purchases is not now. still, there are things I’ve wanted for a while, that seriously occupy my thoughts.

anyway, she exclaimed that we didn’t need one… I did the whiny back and forth, and then said, well, I need to find some friends, so I was going to go get one (meaning the puppy).

I knew I wasn’t actually going to make a fast decision last night, but I was wanting to make it a real thing for discussion. I know she’s nervous about the responsibility, and either of us having time for it, about the cost… But, later after she came home (we are talking 6 hours later), and we were getting ready to sleep, she said (paraphrase) “maybe we can see about you having a puppy”

All I wanted was for her to be open to the idea. I know it’s a major decision. I’m approaching it like a tattoo. This is like deciding to have children. I don’t want to adopt a puppy, just to give her away in a year or two. I wanna be in this for the long haul.

So, I will do all the research, I will visit the pound, I will make a careful decision… and now I’m not in a rush. when the right dog comes along I’ve gotten the “pre-approval”. That feels good.

I guess I sort of sounded a little whiny, and kind of like I was joking. I think I wanted to hide how much I think about it. Maybe if I can convince her that It will help tide me over before having children?

She said “we don’t need a puppy.”

blah!

on facebook. She is a whippet and I named her Cairo. It’s not the same as a real one, but at least I can pretend.

http://apps.facebook.com/petpupz/view.php?fid=78201684&viewingid=1050405

golden retriever maybe or a labrador retriever.. Dogs are just so cute.. the puppies mostly. I’ve seen some big scary dogs, I want a puppy that’ll grow to be normal size.. They’re just adorable :)