I am a terrible doggy Mom! We've had this pretty lady since November 29th and I have yet to introduce her. Everyone, meet Belle!
Our first pup, Bolt is very active and very social. We (I) started noticing that he seemed a bit down over the summer - except when we would go to the dog park and play with other dogs. I told Josh about this and we decided that we'd get another dog, but not until he got back from deployment. I thought it would be a better idea to wait until after Christmas because we'd be going home for Christmas and I didn't think we'd be able to find a place to board a dog on such short notice ... but my husband does what he wants.
Josh told me one random day that he was going to go down to the SPCA and "just look". I had been closely following the dogs on their FB site and didn't think any were a good fit for Bolt, so I wasn't worried and just humored him. I then get a text message while I'm at work and this is what I see ...
... all I said was "shit". I knew we were getting this dog. She was a stray and they had just gotten her in - she didn't even have a name, we named her. She was in isolation after getting her shots and flea stuff which is why I didn't see her on the site. We were the first ones to know about her and the first to put in an application. All we had to do was get Bolt over there to meet her and make sure they got along. When I first saw her I was a bit worried, she was way smaller than she looked in pictures and Bolt can be a bit rough. She was only 9 months so she still has some growing left to do and I quickly realized that girlfriend can hold her own. Luckily they got along really great, and our application was accepted. They said we could pick her up that Wednesday because she was scheduled to get spayed on Tuesday.
The first few days royally sucked because she was crated for most of the day. Since she had just gotten spayed she couldn't play with Bolt for at least a week, so we had to get creative with letting them get to know each other. It actually worked really well. We also let her roam around the spare bedroom since there was nothing high that she could jump on and nothing for her to get in to.
Once she was healed and could play with Bolt, it was nonstop fun for them! She absolutely adores him, and has no trouble keeping up with him. It's been fun watching them become fast friends! We definitely love our little princess!
Our first pup, Bolt is very active and very social. We (I) started noticing that he seemed a bit down over the summer - except when we would go to the dog park and play with other dogs. I told Josh about this and we decided that we'd get another dog, but not until he got back from deployment. I thought it would be a better idea to wait until after Christmas because we'd be going home for Christmas and I didn't think we'd be able to find a place to board a dog on such short notice ... but my husband does what he wants.
Josh told me one random day that he was going to go down to the SPCA and "just look". I had been closely following the dogs on their FB site and didn't think any were a good fit for Bolt, so I wasn't worried and just humored him. I then get a text message while I'm at work and this is what I see ...
... all I said was "shit". I knew we were getting this dog. She was a stray and they had just gotten her in - she didn't even have a name, we named her. She was in isolation after getting her shots and flea stuff which is why I didn't see her on the site. We were the first ones to know about her and the first to put in an application. All we had to do was get Bolt over there to meet her and make sure they got along. When I first saw her I was a bit worried, she was way smaller than she looked in pictures and Bolt can be a bit rough. She was only 9 months so she still has some growing left to do and I quickly realized that girlfriend can hold her own. Luckily they got along really great, and our application was accepted. They said we could pick her up that Wednesday because she was scheduled to get spayed on Tuesday.
The first few days royally sucked because she was crated for most of the day. Since she had just gotten spayed she couldn't play with Bolt for at least a week, so we had to get creative with letting them get to know each other. It actually worked really well. We also let her roam around the spare bedroom since there was nothing high that she could jump on and nothing for her to get in to.
Once she was healed and could play with Bolt, it was nonstop fun for them! She absolutely adores him, and has no trouble keeping up with him. It's been fun watching them become fast friends! We definitely love our little princess!
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