We're getting a dog!
One of the most exciting things in my life is only hours away... Chris and I will be adopting our first dog together! We've spent the last 3 months reading, researching, calling, visiting and doing anything else that would help us find the perfect dog for us. After all this hard work, we finally found a Border Collie X Australian Shepherd dog who is 1 year old. We also got the okay from our landlords to have a dog (phew!)
When we last saw the dog, she was at the Misty Creek rescue shelter near Pigeon Lake in Alberta. We took the afternoon off on the 3rd of June and visited the dogs we saw on the shelter's webpage. Shauna, the very nice woman who runs the shelter told us all about this dog, and we got to play with her a bit, she was extremely friendly and very calm. At one point, we really saw the herding instinct kick in as the dog stared down one of the horses on the farm/shelter grounds. She looked in extremely good health and even knew a few commands - like sit, come here, and shake! The only bad things about this dog was that she was 1) muddy (but that's a temporary state, of course) 2) in high demand (another person was going to visit her on the Sunday, so we needed to make a decision quick) and 3) not coming home with us immediately!
As I mentioned, our landlords did give us the okay to get a dog, but this only came on June 4th after Chris left several messages on their answering machine - we were so anxious to find out! We immediately called the shelter and said we wanted to adopt her. So now, we're getting the dog!
When we last saw the dog, she was at the Misty Creek rescue shelter near Pigeon Lake in Alberta. We took the afternoon off on the 3rd of June and visited the dogs we saw on the shelter's webpage. Shauna, the very nice woman who runs the shelter told us all about this dog, and we got to play with her a bit, she was extremely friendly and very calm. At one point, we really saw the herding instinct kick in as the dog stared down one of the horses on the farm/shelter grounds. She looked in extremely good health and even knew a few commands - like sit, come here, and shake! The only bad things about this dog was that she was 1) muddy (but that's a temporary state, of course) 2) in high demand (another person was going to visit her on the Sunday, so we needed to make a decision quick) and 3) not coming home with us immediately!
As I mentioned, our landlords did give us the okay to get a dog, but this only came on June 4th after Chris left several messages on their answering machine - we were so anxious to find out! We immediately called the shelter and said we wanted to adopt her. So now, we're getting the dog!
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