As alot of my friends, I get Friends of the Memphis Animal Services stuff in my newsfeed. I have been seeing the 16 recent ones that need homes, and I was BOMBARDED by all the shares of the 4 that still need homes yesterday. D and I have always talked about another furbaby, more when the time came that we might find a groove with Isaac's therapies and stuff. I looked each and everytime at the the 4 left. D has said that IF we get another dog, he wanted another girl. Heh. Well, there was one in that pic. Cinnabun, or however you spell it. Yep, the boys and I were going to look. We got there about 315, before yappy hour. Just me and the autistic child that wouldn't walk, and the nt child that wanted to see the itty bitty puppies. NO. No puppies. Well, maybe that's a stretch, but it would be better if they were past that nipping/gnawing phase. They asked what I was looking for: girl, older than itty bitty puppy. And off we went. So many beautiful babies. Good news for her: Cinnabun was already spoken for by the time I got there! About half the girls were spoken for. I wasn't really paying attention to the boys though (gotta work with D, since he really wasn't down for this in the first place). Narrowed them down to 2. Then it hit me...all of these are still kinda puppies in my opinion. Under 1, some well under 1, being about 3mo to 9mo. By this time D got there. I asked if there were any older ones. They do have a healthy holding area. So if you do go , and they take you around 2 loops...there is another loop. The chances that if you pick a furbaby in the healthy holding area are only about 75% that you can take them home THAT DAY. They are super super nice and let you know that though right off the bat. I fell in love with a girl in that area. We did see the other 2 in a getting acquainted room. One was super playful, not very lovey though, and the other was both! Then we went to get my girl. Super shy, not very sure of if she wanted to go where we were taking her. Scared almost. She's in heat right now (reason #1 we couldn't taker her today, not spayed yet), and was moving so cautiously. She stopped about halfway to the room. So I plopped my butt on that floor and loved on her a bit. Then she came on to the room. She was so shy. But didn't freak out to Landon throwing the tennis balls, or Isaac making his stimming noise to hear the echo in the room. She let me and D love on her, and that was it for me. That was MY furbaby. Her info says she's 1 year old, and came in as a stray. She's scared for sure, and I have a feeling someone wasn't so nice to her. She's stocky, but skinny at the same time. I hope that makes sense. She doesn't have a name yet either. Paper says she's about 57lbs. We told them that we'd go out to the lobby to decide. D wanted the lovey hyper one, I wanted my girl. I won. Landon...he really lost cause while we were talking about it he decided he wanted a cat. He could see them through the glass. D is allergic. No cats :)
D gave in and said we could adopt her. He also said I would owe him. What?! I think this is funny, because he would really dug in and said no if he wasn't ok with it, or he would've said something like we'll finish talking about this at home. So, we went back up there and signed up for a fence check and a background check. No, they don't do this will all of them....only pit mixes. My girl is a pit mix. Well, we have the fence requirement...just need them to come one out and check it. So 1. She has to be spayed. 2. Fence check. 3. Background check (whatever they do for that). 4. Pay for her and bring her home!!!
Her name: Jessi wants to name her, but can't narrow down a name. She has a huge long list. Even though we got home right about 5 yesterday...for some reason D had her a name before 7. Too cute. My hubby, who acted like he wasn't so sure about her had our new baby a name in less than 2 hours. Polly. I'm not so sure about it, but I've only adopted 1 furbaby and that shelter had given him an name already. Owen. Now he was only 3 mo old so I'm sure I could've changed it, but I didn't. I've never named a dog before. Like naming human children. Pressure!! I thought it would be easy, but it's the hardest thing about this! We should have a least a few more days to decide though. But D is really pushing for Polly!
Anyway: Here's the best pic we have right now of Polly?
