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tacitI've paid my deposit, in 7 weeks I'll have a puppy!
The day was not without its trials. Like, what do you do when you only want one dog and you're confronted with this?!
Fortunately these guys had already been sold:
...so there was no danger of me caving to the cuteness and accidentally taking all nine:
And I only had to choose between these four boys:
I pikced up the little guy in the dark blue and he snuffled around, trying to find something to suckle:
...at which point I fell completely in love. But I thought, No! Give the other guys a chance too! So I put My Puppy back with his brothers:
And picked up thegreedy one former!runt of the litter:
Who tested my resolve by slumping bonelessly on me, and by being unfairly adorable:
Then thegreedy one former!runt started making really pathetic but totally determined squealy noises going 'I can smell you guys eating! But this giant has DOGNAPPED me, and I'm going to STARVE to DEATH in the next TEN SECONDS,' so I put him with his mum:
And then I put the my little guy with them all as well (because his brother had swayed me, he could have starved):
And then the other two unsold brothers as well:
And then I watched them all wriggle around and squeak for a further two hours, but my guy came out on top:
...leaving me with no choice but to put down a deposit on my little buddy in the dark blue.
He weighs 700 grams and his eyes and ears haven't opened yet. He's nine days old and will be ready on July 6th. I fully intend to visit at least a six million times between now and then.
In conclusion: PUPPIES!!
And also after seeing Iron Man (awesome!) and Charlie Bartlett (distinctly average) in the space of a week, I've developed a huge crush on Robert Downey Junior. That is all.
ETA: Wait, no that's not all. I'm open to naming suggestions. Anyone? I don't want a person-name; a verb or something sci-fi/space related would be fun, but something I wouldn't be embarrassed to shout across a park. My shortlist so far: Storm, Sputnik, Echo, Loco, Caper, Link, Gambol. Ideas?
The day was not without its trials. Like, what do you do when you only want one dog and you're confronted with this?!
Fortunately these guys had already been sold:
...so there was no danger of me caving to the cuteness and accidentally taking all nine:
And I only had to choose between these four boys:
I pikced up the little guy in the dark blue and he snuffled around, trying to find something to suckle:
...at which point I fell completely in love. But I thought, No! Give the other guys a chance too! So I put My Puppy back with his brothers:
And picked up the
Who tested my resolve by slumping bonelessly on me, and by being unfairly adorable:
Then the
And then I put the my little guy with them all as well (because his brother had swayed me, he could have starved):
And then the other two unsold brothers as well:
And then I watched them all wriggle around and squeak for a further two hours, but my guy came out on top:
...leaving me with no choice but to put down a deposit on my little buddy in the dark blue.
He weighs 700 grams and his eyes and ears haven't opened yet. He's nine days old and will be ready on July 6th. I fully intend to visit at least a six million times between now and then.
In conclusion: PUPPIES!!
And also after seeing Iron Man (awesome!) and Charlie Bartlett (distinctly average) in the space of a week, I've developed a huge crush on Robert Downey Junior. That is all.
ETA: Wait, no that's not all. I'm open to naming suggestions. Anyone? I don't want a person-name; a verb or something sci-fi/space related would be fun, but something I wouldn't be embarrassed to shout across a park. My shortlist so far: Storm, Sputnik, Echo, Loco, Caper, Link, Gambol. Ideas?
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Date: 2008-05-17 12:36 am (UTC)Of course, my mom always said that if you wait a few weeks, the puppy will name itself. My first dog, the second day we had him, got into the pepper in one of the cabinets and sneezed all over the place for hours, so we named him pepper. My current dog, Furball, was shedding as a puppy, which i'd never seen before.
But, OMG HOW CUTE. They have such pretty coats!
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Date: 2008-05-17 10:00 am (UTC)Their coats are gorgeous, aren't they? That's part of what drew me to my guy; his was the nicest colour.
I'm going to go visit again in a couple of weeks and meet his personality - right now he's just a wiggling little wrinkled thing. Because yeah, I want to know him before I pick out a name.
So fun! This whole process is rocking, so far.