Puppy!!

[tacit]

I'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 the greedy one former!runt of the litter:



Who tested my resolve by slumping bonelessly on me, and by being unfairly adorable:



Then the greedy 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?  

Comments

[deltacephei.livejournal.com]

More than a month of anticipation for you! Will you be able to stand it?

Have you thought about going to dog school with him? This friend of mine went with her dog. They had a class especially for dogs younger than six months. (Hers was older but untrained, because she'd taken him in from an animal shelter.) I accompanied them twice, and the puppies there were absolutely able to make people spontaneously combust from overexposure to cuteness. They just let their dogs play a lot there -- it was mostly about learning to deal with other dogs. Oh, and to get the general principle of 'sit'.

[tacittype.livejournal.com]

I think dog school is a really good idea. I've been looking into it, a little. Once the little guy is 12 weeks old and has had all his vaccinations, I'd love to go - so he's socialised with other dogs, and so I can maybe make some new friends, and so I can squee at the adorableness. And, yeah, maybe teach him to sit. (I already have quite militant views about how I'm going to train him, I've been reading books about it and think I know what's what - I hope the teacher is nice and has similar ideas, because otherwise I'm bound to be a Bad Student and, um, not co-operate. Unless he/she's a good teacher and can convince me to change my mind! Maybe the classes will socialise me with my species as well as the puppy with his...)

I've got a sort of a business plan in my mind for some sort of dog-walking social event once a week, somewhere local. I can't seem to find anything online, which is crazy! There must be other people who want to walk their dogs in a sociable environment. I can't work out how to make any money out of it though, which is a problem!

A month is forever! I'm gonna go down and visit on the 29th, on my way home from a night in London. There will be picspam!