Foster Puppies

 

My husband has been unemployed since October 11th.  We are very giving people and its a new experience for us to be on the receiving end.  We have been overwhelmed with the kindness of others through out this time in our lives.

 

Two Sundays ago, in our church bulletin there was a challenge to do something clearly unselfish.  I was trying to think of something we could do as a family.  When I got home that day and got on facebook there was a request from Dakota rescue.  A mommy dog had quit nursing her babies (she had 10) and they needed help!  We offered to take two.

 

I packed the kids up and we went to get them.  The kids understood it would just be for two weeks, that we were caring for them because their mother could not.  The larger one we called Buster, the smaller one we called Scratchy.

 



 

They were so adorable.  We feed them, and loved them and played with them.  The boys helped as much as they could.  They helped with bottle feeding and changing the newspapers & when they got baths they helped dry them.

 

 

 

Opie was checking in on them.

 

 

 

Our baby was not too sure about the puppies.  He would clap at them, but kind of wanted them to stay at arms length away.  (this is buster & the baby)

 

Two cuties!

 

 

 

Then it was time to say good bye.  They played with the puppies all day.  Then we went up to pet-co to have them put up for adoption.  Noah cried first, then when the other puppies came, Eli cried.

 

But we were so happy to hear that Buster was adopted and it will just be a matter of time before scratchy is adopted too.  The boys were so happy to hear that!

 

Buster with his new owner!!!  I'm sure he will love him as much as we did

 

Getting Opie

We love animals.  We have a lot of them.  Two turtles, three dogs, fish, sea monkeys (if they count as pets) Frogs.  We have had guni pigs and rabbits.  But currently dont have them.  The boys really wanted a puppy.  My husband and I were considering getting them one for this coming Christmas.  The only problem is we really belive in adopting animals.  Our two older dogs are full blood bassett hounds adopted from Dakota Rescue;  And shelters are over run with full blooded dogs of every kind.  You wait a few years and you can find what ever kind of dog you want in a shelter and usually its NOT because something is wrong with the dog, its USUALLY because something is wrong with the HUMAN.  Divorce, new baby, moving, money problems, death in the family, and the list goes on and on.  Both Duke and Rex were 7 years old, house broken and they are really great dogs.

Okay - so the problem, we like the disposition of Bassetts and  really did not want a 1/2 breed, because you know the momma is a bassett but when she is in a shelter you dont know what the daddy is.  And we really wanted to be sure that the breed would be a match with our family.  The it happened

 Some one tied up a full blooded mommy and daddy bassett out side of a vet in dallas.  Then the momma had babies 5 days later.  And Opie was born.  We were lucky enough to be selected by Collin County Humain Society

 We totally caught the boys off guard.  They did not know what to say.  They just kept saying "Its not Christmas, its not Christmas"

 They were so shocked, it took them a good 10 minuets to react at all

 If you did not know you would think they wernt excited

 But they were (see how confused he looks here? LOL

 Thanking me for the puppy

 Ah now its hit him! "Thanks for the puppy mom!" tackle

 Cute baby

 Cute puppy

So my suggestion is to friend some no kill shelters in your area on Facebook, try and get some recomendations and make sure they are a good shelter.  Then dont rush, read about the dogs they have if you see some you like go meet them, they will post the new ones on their fb feeds.  And things like this happen more than you would think.  In the 3 years I have been adopting dogs I have seen 4 to 5 half breeds of puppys pop up and then here recently two litters of full bread bassetts popped up.  Unfortuantly one litter did not make it.  But you never know what you are going to find.  Who would have ever thought that this beautiful bassett puppy could have been adopted?

It wasent me

There was a peroid of time where my youngest son was peeing on the floor and blaming the dog.  He would run into the room and say "MOM, come with me.  The dog PEEed on the floor"  He would grab me by the hand and take me to the pee spot.  Well the problem was the pee spot was too small to be the dogs, it was Elis pee spot.  We finally broke him of this.

So our new dog had an accident on the floor, he pooped.  Eli ran into the kitchen and said "GUYS REX POOPED!  REX.....It was not me, I SWEAR that I did not POOP on the floor"

I had to laugh, because I wonder how many people have gotten themselfs in a situation where they have to be specific that it was NOT them who used the bathroom on the floor

I almost Died

I have an back inverter

You strap your feet in at the bottom then raise your arms and it flips you upside down and its suppost to stretch out your back and help with back problems.  Its nice, however I dont use it as much as I should.  One day Noah was climbing on it and Eli came and decided to raise it up while he was on it.  Noah starts freaking out

Noah - "Eli, ELI!!! Put me down!!!

Eli just laughed

Me - Eli please put him down

Noah jumped off the machine and ran to the dog

Noah - "Oh Duke, I almost died!!!!  I love you so much!"

Do you have a pet you love so much?  What are your funny stories?