Last night, Erin had the opportunity to go to a formal dinner at youth group. She got all dressed up and went with her friend Kelly. We had commitments already, so she was escorted by our good friend, Rod, Kelly's dad. She looks way too grown up here.
"We are never getting another dog!" "Okay, maybe we'll get another dog, but we will never get another puppy!" Have you ever heard the saying, never say never? Well, here we go. A while back, maybe three weeks now, Jim and I started looking at dogs. Erin has been wanting another dog, and of course she really wanted puppy. Jim had found a couple of dogs on Craigs List and he inquired of them. We did not hear back right away and when we went back to find them again, the ad was gone also. I had seen a dog on line and inquired of it. It seems to fit all our requirements: adult, female, housetrained. I received a response and was told that the dog had been adopted that weekend. We decided to go to the Humane Society and look with the kids. While there, we saw two dogs we were interested in. The first one didn't seem to fit our family well, but the second one seemed like a good match, to us at least. We decided to adopt her and proceeded to fill out the necessary paper work. We were getting very excited and when they called us to let us know that our new dog was ready to take home, we got a different story. We were told that our family would not be a good match for this dog. You see, even though we have older children in our house, we have younger grandchildren and the dog was labeled as adult only house or house with older children. I guess the grandchildren coming over every now and then was a problem. Erin was devastated. She was crying and we were all very unhappy. As we were standing there, my cell phone rang. It was the people that had the dogs from Craigs List. We made arrangements to meet them. We all loved the dogs and we decided to add them to our family. Okay, remember the never having any more dogs? Now, do you remember the never having any more puppies? Well, so much for no puppies, our new dogs are 4-1/2 months old and 6 months old. They are mostly housetrained and have done quite well. They are very friendly and the did great meeting the grandchildren today. This was a huge thing because some of the grandkids have been afraid of dogs. We were able to work through on time when Princess barked and lunged toward Preston. I held her harness and called him over. I made sure Preston knew that I was holding Princess. He did come over and allow Princess to smell him and it went very well. We did not intend to get two dogs but I guess with the way everything turned out, it was just meant to be.
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