Robert is a big dog person! But we have been holding off for a couple years on getting one because we wanted to wait until we had a fenced yard, enough money, and a landlord that didn't care. Well, now that we have these things, we got us a dog! We started watching craiglist and petfinder.com for dogs to rescue. Had to be cat and kid friendly, didn't care what age really and had a few different breeds that we preferred. And truely, we did not want a small dog. I worked in a vet clinic for over a year before I had Darby and found that there are very few breeds of small dogs that are pleasant to be around,in my opinion! Well, if I was gonna choose, I wanted a boxer, because everything i read on them said that they are typically great with small children. Finally a litter of four pups came up. We submitted an application and finally got approved to come see the two males that were left from the litter. I drove the hour and a half on Thursday with Bryse and Cal after I dropped Darby off at school. She didn't even know we were going to see about a puppy! I wanted to surprise her. Jack and his brother played and romped around until Bryse and I decided on Jack. I chose him because when him and his brother came running up to Bryse, while his brother knocked her over, he just sat down in front of her, even though he was obviously excited. His brother had the normal look of a boxer with the white too, so was alittle prettier, but I enjoyed Jack's uniqueness! Jack's story is that his owner was evicted and he left the mother and four pups behind when he left. They were three weeks old when that happened. Jack and his siblings lived in a foster home until they were adopted.
He's been great so far. Barely ever overwhelms the kids and Bryse loves him. Darby was super surprised when I picked her up with him, and loves having him around, but just isn't quite the dog person that Bryse is. His name comes from the Little House of the Prarie book I read the girls in the spring. I think that dog was technically a bulldog mix, but Darby didn't care, she said that she thinks he probably looks like Laura's dog! : )
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mewmaw
10/20/2009 04:30:31 am
I LOVE that mug face!!!!
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