SweetiePie
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After exploring pet fostering I decided it was not the way to go. Besides getting attached to the animal and then having to give it up; you had to cart it to the Adoptathon every weekend. So, I decided it was time to adopt. Buford would not have wanted me to be this sad and unhappy over him.
After perusing 29 pages of adoptable animals I decided on a lab retriever mix named Bones, who looks alot like Buford, He was a pupppy who had been picked up as a stray with a broken leg. I thought it was odd that he had been there since August but chalked it up to his medical problems.
I went down to our shopping center shelter and told the girl I was here to pick up Bones. I had called earlier but she still gave me a strange look. We went to his enclosure and as internet dating often goes, he looked nothing like his picture. He was much bigger now. He started off the date by pooping in his enclosure. They cleaned it up but it still reeked. They he went to one corner and growled at me the whole time. She warned me that he bites, so I didn't even try to pet him. Then he barked and it was deafening. I could tell already that his Marley and Me guy was going to be trouble.
I decided since I was there that I might as well look around. I told Bones, "We're looking." They happened to have another 5 month old lab retriever puppy who had just come in. It was a totally different experience. We bonded immediately. He started out by gently biting my toes and then rolled on his back to get his tummy rubbed.
Bones watched me from his enclosure growling all the time I was filling out the paperwork. I told him, "It could have been you." Once they had the puppy collared and leashed up we went by to say goodbye to Bones and he was still growling and barking at me. I've never had a dog react so negatively to me in my life.
I can tell that Buford2 is going to be a ladies man. We couldn't get out of the shopping mall without people coming up to us and asking if I just adopted him and telling me how cute he is. I expected him to be all over the car on the way home but he just lay down in the back seat and was the perfect little traveler.
When we got home I had his room all set up and he went right to his bed and made himself at home. He eats like a horse so that wasn't a problem. They warned me he wasn't potty trained but not even an accident. I took him outside on a leash and he did his business and slept through the night without a peep. No separation anxiety, nothing.
I thought it was too much to ask for to get another perfect dog, but it looks like I just might have done it again. Buford is smiling.
After perusing 29 pages of adoptable animals I decided on a lab retriever mix named Bones, who looks alot like Buford, He was a pupppy who had been picked up as a stray with a broken leg. I thought it was odd that he had been there since August but chalked it up to his medical problems.
I went down to our shopping center shelter and told the girl I was here to pick up Bones. I had called earlier but she still gave me a strange look. We went to his enclosure and as internet dating often goes, he looked nothing like his picture. He was much bigger now. He started off the date by pooping in his enclosure. They cleaned it up but it still reeked. They he went to one corner and growled at me the whole time. She warned me that he bites, so I didn't even try to pet him. Then he barked and it was deafening. I could tell already that his Marley and Me guy was going to be trouble.
I decided since I was there that I might as well look around. I told Bones, "We're looking." They happened to have another 5 month old lab retriever puppy who had just come in. It was a totally different experience. We bonded immediately. He started out by gently biting my toes and then rolled on his back to get his tummy rubbed.
Bones watched me from his enclosure growling all the time I was filling out the paperwork. I told him, "It could have been you." Once they had the puppy collared and leashed up we went by to say goodbye to Bones and he was still growling and barking at me. I've never had a dog react so negatively to me in my life.
I can tell that Buford2 is going to be a ladies man. We couldn't get out of the shopping mall without people coming up to us and asking if I just adopted him and telling me how cute he is. I expected him to be all over the car on the way home but he just lay down in the back seat and was the perfect little traveler.
When we got home I had his room all set up and he went right to his bed and made himself at home. He eats like a horse so that wasn't a problem. They warned me he wasn't potty trained but not even an accident. I took him outside on a leash and he did his business and slept through the night without a peep. No separation anxiety, nothing.
I thought it was too much to ask for to get another perfect dog, but it looks like I just might have done it again. Buford is smiling.