Sunday, July 18, 2010

new doggie!!

On Friday, I took the boys to the Williamson County Animal Shelter to browse the beautiful puppies in need of new homes. We saw a pretty girl named Vida, and she stole my heart. I took a picture of her and texted it to Scott, who was about to board a plane in San Francisco to come home to us after being out of town for work all week. On Saturday, we loaded the family into the car to go back to the shelter so that Scott could see the dogs himself. As I was showing Vida to him, a man came to take her out of her kennel to go to an on-site adoption event at PetSmart. He offered to leave her at the shelter, but we told him we'd meet him there to see her - that way, we could see her outside the shelter environment, and if we adopted her there we got a bunch of PetSmart coupons, so why not? We stopped by the "chicken nugget station" (Chick Fil A) for lunch and then went to PetSmart. There she was, looking pretty! They brought her to us on a leash and let us take her on a little walk between the stores, away from the other dogs. She was sweet, totally fine with the boys, and we all fell in love. We left here there to go home and get Jake so that we could see if the 2 dogs got along. When we returned with Jake, we walked the 2 of them together and they seemed almost indifferent to each other. Jake was, I think, nervous and weirded out by the barking of the shelter dogs when he was near them, and so he was more subdued than usual. Anyway, they seemed to get along just fine (no fighting, no problems at all) so we adopted Vida!

Here she is, sitting at my feet:


And here she is sleeping at my feet:


She is the same height as Jake (or maybe a smidge taller) but 53 lbs to his 70 lbs. But Jake is a Fatty McFattysaurus these days, and she's been at a shelter (before that, a stray).


Scott ran out to WalMart to get a crate for the new doggie. She'll go in it when there is a treat inside and no people close, but Colin seems to enjoy it more :) So does Jake, actually. Last night, when she cried to go out, she didn't want to go back in the crate. Jake went in instead, and she slept in Jake's dog bed.

The new dog does not yet have a name. We're looking at several names, and as soon as we've found the perfect one to fit her we will share :)