So for about 10 years now my daughter has been begging us for a dog. We got her every other animal thinking we could skip the dog. But years ago I had said when she was 13 she could get a dog. So....guess who turned 13 this week?
I had been looking at the two local shelters for about a year off an on. Last summer I stopped by 3 or 4 times looking around to see if any of the dogs seemed like the perfect fit for us. Up until Monday I still wasn't sure we were going to get a dog. I looked on the website to see about puppies. Then on Sunday night a Australian Cattle Dog and Beagle mix showed up. 8 weeks old. hmmmm....my sister has a Cattle Dog and it's really smart, doesn't bark much and is great with my kids. We went to look at the litter in the humane society, to see if we liked them. Well, we didn't think the beagle mix was for us. Too yippy and they were all shaking and scared. Our kids would traumatize the poor things.
But we ended up liking the Australian Cattle Dog, mystery mix in the kennel next door.
My husband and I have NEVER had a dog. Not ever, none as a kid, none in college...NEVER. So what were we in for? We weren't sure. We are busy people. How could we do this? Could we?
Well...we decided we would never be READY. Kinda like having kids. We just needed to go for it. We brought the kids back later in the day to meet her and brought her home on Tuesday. I'm tired from getting up at night, but she really is a cutie. We named her Shadow.
So are you a cat person or a dog person? Do you have lots of animals or none?
What do you think is the MYSTERY part of Shadow's Mix?
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