But I'm on the path to catch up. Soon, maybe even tonight. But for now, here's the latest.
We have a new member of the family. She (yes, we're trying to make sure the boys remain in the minority!) is super sweet and pretty darn cute. She came with the name of Coco and since everyone (including JM) can pronounce it, and we didn't have any other names handy, and she had been hearing it for the last 30 days or so, we decided to keep it.
So here she is, shortly after arriving home yesterday:
She's done really well since she came home with us yesterday afternoon. She likes to jump up sometimes and that has scared Gracie and Clara a little, but they are learning what to do to handle that. She is mostly very sweet and gentle. The girls just took a trip to PetSmart with her (and Elvis) to get a new supply of dog toys and treats. We are talking about taking her to a training class and Gracie is very excited about that.
She is Mike's (early) birthday present and we didn't really have plans to adopt a dog yesterday afternoon, but fate intervened. We decided to go the shelter and look at the animals there & then wait until we found one that met all of our criteria (around 2 years old, calm, good with children, good with Elvis). We liked Coco after we saw her, but we still might have waited until later to come back and adopt. But then the officer at the shelter told us that Coco only had until Tuesday and the shelter is closed on Sunday and Monday. They are limited by space and Coco had been there for over a month and they had six dogs waiting for spaces. Once we heard that, we knew we better get serious quickly! We got Elvis and brought her back to meet Coco and all seemed well, so we brought her home. I only hope that there will be five more adoptions before Tuesday.
So hopefully for Coco, the story ends with "and she lived happily ever after." We certainly hope so!
Here she is enjoying her new monkey toy:
1 comment:
Coco is so precious!! I can definitely see why she won your hearts!!
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