Preparations

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!

I Can Has Puppy?

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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