
Well as it turns out, I'm one of those loser geeks that takes a million pictures of their pet and posts them on their site...But she's sooo darn cute..How could I resist?
It's Puppy's anniversary today. Four years ago to the day, we took her home from the SPCA. So we celebrated by making her wer a dumb party hat and my mum actually baked her a cake, and we set a mini table for her and let her blow/slobber her candles out and we gave her a piece that was gone in a millasecond..I didn't even see her chew it!
At the time when we were going to get her, more of us lived here. It was my Mum , sister, brother and myself. So we had to all agree on what kind of puppy we wanted. SO we each made a list of the qualities we wanted in a dog. And after putting the list together, we went off to the SPCA and searched for a dog that had the qualities we wanted.
She needed to have:
(this is from the original list, my mum kept it...)
-skinny-medium (diet dog)
-controllable
-devoted
-not all black
-eyebrows
-not yappy
-saluki like
-floppy ears
-waggy tail
-short haired
-female
-friendly
-from the SPCA
-guard dog capabilities
Well, 10 out of 14 isn’t so bad right?
So we looked and found her...And three days later, we brought her home. I was so excited. I remember I was at the Vans Warped tour when my mum got her home and I wanted to go home to see her but I took the wrong bus and it took four hours for me to get home, but when I did...it was love at first site...Well maybe not love right away. She was and still can be quite a handful.
She would run around the house, tearing the place up. Within the first week of her being here, my socks started to disappear. I couldn’t figure it out...that is until I saw puppy barf them up in the yard. I don’t know why she ate them but she did. One time she barfed up three socks!!! Three and then she pooped one....uhg, gross, you really have no idea how disgusting it is to see you dog poop out your socks....Needless to say, I threw them all out. And even now she likes to take my socks right off my feet, but she doesn’t eat them anymore, she just brings them up to my mum’s room and sleeps next to them.
She did cause a lot of damage in the early days...she ate my mum’s glasses, their case, she once ate an entire cherry pie that get took from the kitchen, still in the dish, and carried up to my mum’s bed to eat..and most recently, she ate a dozen hot dog buns.....She eats garbage, poop, bones, bugs, grass, socks, flowers, stuffed animals, shoes...you name it, she’ll eat it... I should really enter her in an eating contest.
She’s just a really good pet. She knows when something is wrong, and she’ll come and cuddle next to you, or when she needs warmth, she’ll curl up in your bed...
My only complaint: the barking. This dog barks non stop all day. If someone passes on our street or even o the next street over, she barks until she can’t see them anymore. She barks at the cat that sits on our porch at night, she barks a the kids next door when they play ion their driveway, she barks at the mailman, she barks at other barks.... She just barks too darn much. But we can’t really tell her to stop, then what king of guard dog would she be?
All this to say that I’ve loved my puppy from the day we got her. She may not be the most behaved dog, or even the smartest, but she’s a Rupnik dammit, and when your a Rupnik, you don’t have to be smart or behaved.