Since I was a little girl I had always wanted a dog. For
over fifteen years the only thing I wanted for Christmas and my birthday was a
puppy. For my 21st birthday, I decided that it was time for me to
get one. I started looking online and at
local shelters. I didn't have a specific type of dog that I wanted, because I
tend to like all of them and I am bad at decisions. There were many cute
puppies, but none of them felt like MY puppy.
Then we went to the house of a lady who was sheltering 20-30
puppies for a local shelter. She had two pure bred miniature pinchers that my
boyfriend and I went to see. When we walked into her garage the first thing I
saw was a big baby gate in the middle with two litters of puppies in it. Of
course I couldn't help but go over and pet those puppies while she was getting
the miniature pinchers from the other room.
The puppies inside the baby gate were all playing and
wrestling with each other. The lady housing them gave them some food and they
were all fighting each other to get to it, acting like I wasn’t even there.
Except for one. There was one puppy that had a white strip down his nose that
ignored the rest of the puppies and the food and ran to me. He was climbing on
the gate trying to get to me. I picked him up out of the gate and he instantly
calmed down and cuddled into my arm. That was the dog that I brought home that
day.
He was a six week old shelter pup and they had guessed he
was a Shepherd mix. I did not care what kind of dog he was, the second that I saw
him I knew he was the dog for me. As cheesy as this story is, I wouldn’t pick
out a dog any other way. I think the most important thing is to go with the dog
you have a connection with, not the dog that may be the cutest or the breed you
want.
Here are a couple of pictures from the week we got him, and
then a couple recent ones. He looks much different than how I expected him to
grow. It was fun watching him grow, especially his awkward phase where his ears
couldn’t hold themselves up and we didn’t know if they would ever stand.
