Our beautiful new edition!
This Sunday Zach and I did what may very well be the most spontaneous thing we have done... we drove 5 hours to St. Louis to procure the ADORABLE puppy you see above. We actually filled out the on-line application for this little guy sometime late Saturday afternoon while sitting at our friend's house, and the time we got home late that night the e-mail oking our adoption was in my inbox and taunting me to come collect him. We made a tentative decision to maybe go get him the next morning... and by 8:00 am I was up and waking up Zach to help me make the decision of a lifetime (or at least the next 12 years).Zach, in what can only be described as puppy fever, hopped up and started getting himself ready. By 9:30 we were on the road to St. Louis and both a little amazed at what we were actually doing. Zach's puppy fever, which unbeknownst to us actually translates into "lead foot", got us to St. Louis in record time.
The puppy was every bit as sweet as he looked in his pictures, and within the hour we had paid for our little man and were on our way. The place we got the puppy was ok... they rescue dogs that the "puppy mills" couldn't get rid of otherwise, and there were a LOT of small dogs there... I worry a little about any lingering health problems that might pop up with him, but he will be getting a full work-up tomorrow at my vet, so hopefully he will get a clean bill of health.
So far, we are one night down. He sat in Zach or my lap the whole way home (all 5 hours of it!) and was happy as a clam. He did his business outside as he should and has been generally well behaved. He even made it through the night, all crated up, and didn't keep us up all night. What more could we ask for?!
Max and his meeting was pretty amusing, but I'll post more on that later. The photographic evidence is truly priceless!
He hasn't quite been named yet... he was Billy at the shelter, but we aren't really sold on that. Any suggestions?
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