John has been a notorious dog hater. He's never had a dog, so I guess that's been a huge reason for it. Anyhow, about 2 weeks ago he told me he really really like mom's dog Oh My and that we could get a dog her size. Mom's always looking to "guardian home" her dogs so we jumped all over that. We just need to get a few backyard details fixed to be ready for her.
So mom's out of town, dad jantily headed over to Kuna, ID to visit with the Kari-Cori's and that left mom's friend Brenda and her two kids with the 40-11 dogs at mom's place. I decided it was the perfect time to do a trial run with Oh My.
The girls and I went out and picked her up this evening and can I just say they are infatuated! Scharae's been real weird about dogs/cats/humans lately so I was a bit nervous. But I truly believe there's a reason that dogs (labradoodles specifically) are so often used as comfort-therapy dogs! She toook a bath with the girls (and then they took another bath alone to get all un-dogified), ate dinner next to them, laid in their beds briefly with each of them before bed, and we haven't heard a peep from them! Usually bedtime, while they don't cry or anything, takes at least 2 hours before they quit talking and laughing, occasionally arguing. But tonight they just crashed.
And John's been cuddling with her. And she's just great and fine with curling up in a ball on the floor.
And she's just cute. Oh, and the neighbor kids are all in love with her. I don't think there's any other dogs in our cul-de-sac!
Here's a picture from mom's website:
In all reality, I've never though of myself as a small lap-sized dog person. I actually love standard Labradoodles. But baby steps, right? Once Jack's ok with Oh My, and we have a larger house/yard, maybe I can guardian one of mom's other larger dogs!
Hey Tiffany! I haven't checked your blog in a while and my have you been busy! I loved see all of the pictures of the girls. I can't believe you have a daughter in school! I remember when you had her, it just doesn't seem possible for her to be that big already! They look like sweet little girls. I especially loved the princesses. =) I'm glad you guys are doing good. If you are ever going to be in Seattle, let us know and we'll have you over for dinner.
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