Update! We just got a new dog! She's a Great Pyrenees and she's so sweet. It was something of a miracle how we got her. Lily's wanted a huge furry dog forever. We always said, "No way, Jose!" Well, I kept feeling like we needed a companion dog for Kujo to kind of teach him to be mellower. I was looking for an oldish type of mutt but nothing seemed to be pulling up except for aggressive nature dogs at the local shelters. I had quite despaired but the prompting kept coming so I checked again last Tuesday. There at the local shelter was a Great Pyrenees...puppy. Yikes. Not what I wanted. But the breed is supposed to be super sweet and mellow. She was inexpensive and was available that Friday.
Reading through the site material, I saw that we needed to take our family and current pets in to meet the prospective adoptee. So on Wednesday we all loaded up (well, most of us), including our Kujo and one of our cats. The drive is about 30 minutes and Kujo wasn't pleased at all. We picked up a charger (my phone with directions was almost dead) and two new crates to transport our doggies on the way.
The kids were soooo excited as we pulled up to the shelter. I knocked on the locked door and a woman came to the door with a perplexed look on her face. "You need an appointment." Oh dear. I explained that it was a misunderstanding but if we could take a minute to meet "Love" (the dog) while we were there, it would be terrific. She didn't think so. "There are already a whole bunch of people interested in Love. You would have to put your name on the list."
Yikes. Oh well.
I went out to a van of disappointed kiddos. I told Lily that if she wanted to go ahead and put her name on the list, she could. "You never know..." I said. Lily hurried in to add her name to the list and found out that it was actually a drawing situation.
"You have a chance!" I told her. "Let's all start praying for Lily's dog."
We prayed that night and the next day.
It was 9:48 am on Friday morning. We were in the middle of a huge game of Carcassone while I was pumping milk for Penelope when we got a local phone call. I had completely forgotten about the dog but immediately thought, "Dog shelter!" I slid the phone across the table to Lily and exclaimed, "It might be for your dog!"
It was!
"Can we pick her up tomorrow? I have work at 11. No? Alright, we'll be in as soon as we can!"
We loaded up the same group. Fortunately we had already done the load up drill the day before and we knew just what to do! It was only a 1/5 mile down and up the driveway to the parked van since our driveway is still too slippery for our van to drive on. And we were off! On the way, we did a quick call to Hyrum and Lily's work at Wendy's to tell them we might be a little late.
Love and Kujo were gentle and adorable in their introduction section, we hurried through the paperwork and we were off with our new not so little puppy!
Whew.
Outside of a new puppy, here's a little look at our week:
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