Larry is fitting in with our family quite nicely. He’s adapted to his routine and is over all a good dog. We do have some challenges, though. Right now, the biggest challenge is that when he’s excited to see you, he mouths. He has a soft mouth and isn’t in …
Grief is an odd thing. You never stop loving or missing those no longer in your life, but gradually, your daily routine takes you further away from the days when they were there, and you think about them less and less often. Still, there are moments when the emptiness comes …
The first Monday morning we had him, I got up, and he had to get up with me. He was underfoot the whole time. We did go out to the side yard so that he would finally poop outside the house. (This is one of the expected challenges of shelter …
I don’t do puppies. We got June at 6 months old, and never again will I get a dog that young. 9 months is the minimum, and 1-2 years old is ideal. For this, and other reasons, we prefer to get our dogs from shelters. I often don’t think of …
Before we could bring Larry home, we had to bring June up for a visit. Its fairly common up here for rescue organizations to require a new dog to meet resident dogs before finalizing the adoption. It helps ensure that a dog doesn’t come right back because he couldn’t get …
The next day, after doing our errands, C left it up to me whether we went back to Seattle Humane or not. There had been a number of dogs we were interested in, and we’d only met two. Granted, in the past, we’d always taken home the first dog we …
The drive home from the shelter was difficult. We both had tremendous amounts of guilt. Honestly, not as much about Tawny, as she truly, truly was not the right dog for us or for June, but quite a bit about being uncertain of Sasha. And that was me. I was …
The first shelter we stopped at, King County Animal Control in Kent, we didn’t really expect to find a dog for us. They usually don’t have very many, and from looking at their website, we knew they only had one young dog (which was the age we were targeting), and …
Trying to get back on track here. There were all sorts of little things I thought about during this hiatus, and I tried to take mental notes of what I wanted to write about, but when you take a break from something, even if the break is only a month …
We were in a pet store recently and C saw a posting for someone looking for a temporary home for their border collie. The owner’s mother was in the hospital out of state, so the owner needs to be away for an extended and unknown period of time. And I …
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