Day 29- My Puppy!

Hey guys!

   So, as many of you know, we have just recently bought a puppy. A puppy has been a childhood dream of mine, because we have tried multiple times to have a puppy, and was always ended up getting rid of them..:( My first dog I got when I was about 5, and she was a black lab puppy. Unfortunately, she was very high strung, and not good with visitors, and because of the fact that my Mom was teaching piano, and a lot of her students had little siblings, so that didn't work real well. The second dog, was kind of a monster...He was from a foster home, and he was abused, so he had a lot of anxiety problems. He was very aggressive towards everyone, especially the little boys(now, granted, they were NOT the kindest to him...), and we just didn't need another thing to worry about(this was while Graham was in the hospital).

    For me, an avid animal lover, each dog that we had to give away was very hard for me, so when my Mom started talking about getting another puppy, I just thought, "Why, so we can have him for 6 months and then get rid of him?" But I can already tell about a week into having this puppy, I KNOW that he is one that will stay!!

   He is SUCH a sweetie, and SUCH a sweetheart. I call him "my baby" and we just have a very tight connection with him. Every morning, I come downstairs, and he just goes crazy, he is so excited to see me every morning. One of my favorite things to do recently has been just to sit outside with Elliot, and just play with him, and enjoy his puppyhood.

   Elliot just seems like the PERFECT fit for our family. He is smart, and quickly becoming obedience trained, he LOVES people, and will sit at the gate and cry if no one is with him, he LOVES to be outside playing with the boys, and best of all, he never runs! He creates SUCH a bond with "his people" that he just always wants to be by us, and would never even THINK about running away. Since day 1, he has never had to use a leash, which works well for our yard, because as of right now, we DON'T have a fenced in yard. In other words, it's basically a match made in Heaven for me!!

<3 Always,
Rose