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Crash

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It’s been 24 hours now since we gained the latest addition to our family.

His name: Crash

His age: 10 weeks

His weight: 20 lbs.

He’s a Golden Retriever mixed with something unknown, we picked him out at the SPCA yesterday. He keeps becoming true to his name: particularly when steps or running are involved. He seems to be really good at falling down steps, and likes trying to run between peoples legs when running in the yard. We worked on teaching him “sit” today, as well as beginning work on not biting which he has been doing a lot. Right now he is out in the yard on the leash with Kelly, running around with his “cousin” Bella, Katie’s dog. They played a little at Katie’s house yesterday, and Bella was running circles around Crash, and he’d kinda wobble after her.

So far the cats are keeping their distances, Peel is definately getting the closest out of the three. Kreamer and Emma are just kinda there, and get very hissy when he runs after them.

I’m gonna go out and hang out with them for a while before we come back in for dinner!

For those interested, photos and videos: Here

Preparations

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There are a few words I’ve been struggling to spell recently… Preparation (I keep wanting to type Preperation) and Definitely (I keep wanting to type Definately). Anyway..

We bought dog stuff today. A green food/water bowl, a 5ft blue leash, a rope toy, 3 green tennis balls in a can, 2 rawhide things, a bag of treats and a bag of “Purina Puppy Chow.”

We decided to wait to get a collar because we need to match it to the dog for size (and personality, apparently). We still need to get an outdoor stake and lead, we’ll need a crate, and we’ll also probably need a bed too.

In fact, the only thing we’re really missing at this point is a puppy to use it all.

All the stuff we got for it today cost us less than $20, and I’m particularly pleased. I was expecting supplies and such to cost at least $70-80, and that dog food would be more expensive than it is. Essentially it’ll probably cost us about $20 every 2-4 weeks, which isn’t really that bad at all.

That being the case, we’ll probably have one within the next week!

What’s In a Name?

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For the longest time I’ve wanted a puppy. I dreamed of having a yellow or black lab, both a little puppy being cute around the house and a full-grown beast running around a yard playing fetch. Kelly and I would ponder pets names, and we’d think what names would be good, bad, funny, cute, whatever.

Fearless Dave (aka her dad) gave the approval for us to get a dog today, so I’ve been looking around online at the SPCA shelters and other adoption places for yellow lab puppies, and also a little for black lab puppies (I’ll take a black lab if it’s “the one”, but would prefer a yellow lab).

The weird part is that after all this, I can’t imagine what I would name a puppy. I guess it doesn’t matter a lot, most puppies are named by their breeders/rescuers, and if it’s a good name I can keep it and run with it. But if not, none of the names we thought of seem as good anymore. Optimus Prime still stands out, but it needs to be the right dog..

I Can Has Puppy?

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I guess as selfish beings, whenever we see something we like we in turn want one of our own.

Meet Bella. Bella is a 4 month old purebred beagle, which my sister-in-law and her husband rescued from a trip to the pound on Saturday.

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She’s pretty awesome, and is learning basic commands like ‘sit’, ‘come’, ‘lay down’, etc. We had her running around in the big yard yesterday on a 30 foot lead (and I took her on a run around the house with her leash). Fun to chase (and be chased by), as well as wrestling with her weird purple Giraffe/Lion soft toy thing.

All in all, Bella is pretty awesome. What I really want, though, is a Yellow Lab.

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I don’t know this puppies name, I found the picture on a breeders site, but that is what I want ;-).

In other news, I feel a can of fly spray would be an excellent investment. There are 3 or 4 that won’t leave us alone (despite not working hard and regular showers :-P).

I also lost almost all my hair yesterday, in celebration of a year in the US (it wasn’t supposed to be for a couple of weeks, but for some reason we did it early…).

Photos, before:

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And after:

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