After many many months of sighing at cute pictures of fuzzy little puppies on tv and pouting during drives past the pet store, Dustin 'gave in' and agreed to let me look for a puppy.
Things had finally fallen into place enough for us to look for a new member of our family. We were no longer in an apartment that required us to pay a $400 deposit; which also limited the size of the puppy we could get. We had moved and settled most of our things into the house, and only had limited painting left to do. AND being in Burbank meant having less things to entertain me, and working half days gave me lots of time. I also was on a 2 week break from work, which would give the puppy time to become familiar with us and the house before having to be left alone for a few hours a day.
The search began! I'm not sure if Dustin knew quite what he was getting into! I would search craigslist, the paper, and local shelter websites daily... multiple times a day! We had always talked about what breeds we liked, but we hadn't decided what we were definitely looking for. Although, I had decided that whatever puppy we were looking for, it had to be adorable and give us the warm fuzzies.
After almost a week of looking, I stumbled across a posting by a local woman on Craigslist. Her story broke my heart. Her husband worked with a man who lived just outside city limits on a farm. Because he lives in a fairly remote area that is not well traveled it made a good place for horrible people to abandon their unwanted pets or new puppies. This is what had happened. A full litter of puppies had been dumped on his property. He tried taking them to a local no-kill shelter to be adopted out, but was told that he didn't live in city limits so they "didn't service his area" and wouldn't take the puppies. When the woman found out what had happened she took in all 7 of the puppies and took care of them until she could find them good homes to go to.
When I responded to the ad she said that there were two puppies left. Based on the coloring of the puppies in the litter, she believed that they were a Boxer/Rotty mix. There was a boy that was mostly black with a lightening bolt of white on his chest, and a girl that was mostly black with some brown coloring as eyebrows and on her chin and feet. We arranged a time to go see the puppies, intending to pick up the little boy!
Once we got to the home, we were told that there were actually three puppies available and were introduced to the third puppy. He was the most adorable little thing! He was also mostly black, but had much more rotty coloring than the other two puppies that were available. He was also such a mellow little thing and just wanted to lick you head to toe and sit in your lap. I couldn't walk away without him! We took him back to the house and introduced 'Porter' to his new home!
Things had finally fallen into place enough for us to look for a new member of our family. We were no longer in an apartment that required us to pay a $400 deposit; which also limited the size of the puppy we could get. We had moved and settled most of our things into the house, and only had limited painting left to do. AND being in Burbank meant having less things to entertain me, and working half days gave me lots of time. I also was on a 2 week break from work, which would give the puppy time to become familiar with us and the house before having to be left alone for a few hours a day.
The search began! I'm not sure if Dustin knew quite what he was getting into! I would search craigslist, the paper, and local shelter websites daily... multiple times a day! We had always talked about what breeds we liked, but we hadn't decided what we were definitely looking for. Although, I had decided that whatever puppy we were looking for, it had to be adorable and give us the warm fuzzies.
After almost a week of looking, I stumbled across a posting by a local woman on Craigslist. Her story broke my heart. Her husband worked with a man who lived just outside city limits on a farm. Because he lives in a fairly remote area that is not well traveled it made a good place for horrible people to abandon their unwanted pets or new puppies. This is what had happened. A full litter of puppies had been dumped on his property. He tried taking them to a local no-kill shelter to be adopted out, but was told that he didn't live in city limits so they "didn't service his area" and wouldn't take the puppies. When the woman found out what had happened she took in all 7 of the puppies and took care of them until she could find them good homes to go to.
When I responded to the ad she said that there were two puppies left. Based on the coloring of the puppies in the litter, she believed that they were a Boxer/Rotty mix. There was a boy that was mostly black with a lightening bolt of white on his chest, and a girl that was mostly black with some brown coloring as eyebrows and on her chin and feet. We arranged a time to go see the puppies, intending to pick up the little boy!
Once we got to the home, we were told that there were actually three puppies available and were introduced to the third puppy. He was the most adorable little thing! He was also mostly black, but had much more rotty coloring than the other two puppies that were available. He was also such a mellow little thing and just wanted to lick you head to toe and sit in your lap. I couldn't walk away without him! We took him back to the house and introduced 'Porter' to his new home!
Our first night was not as easy and painless as we'd hoped! (You know how tv shows just show a little girl walking into her bedroom with a brand new puppy and then moments later they fall asleep snuggling close together........ lies! All lies!) -- Porter wanted nothing to do with sleeping. He quickly made friends with the puppy food and new bed that we bought for him, but was too anxious to sleep for more than 5 or 10 minutes at a time. After hours of me getting in and out of bed to lay by him and get him back to sleep Dustin grabbed a sleeping back and camped out on the floor next to Porter's bed for the rest of the night. And did I mention that Porter snores? He and Dustin get along together so well! Although if they both fall asleep before me, I have a symphony of snores to lull me to sleep.
We've now had Porter for about a month and a half and can't believe how fast it's gone, how much he's grown and how much we love him! He truly is the best puppy in the world! Since we've had him he's only made 2 messes in the house, both because we weren't paying enough attention when he stood at the door waiting for us to let him out. He has been wonderful to train, too! He can even do a few tricks!
We couldn't be happier with the new addition to our little family and can't wait to see what other adventures we get ourselves into!
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