a new year... a new DOG??
what the heck?
Let me backtrack a bit and preface this by saying i'm not much of an animal person per say,
like i want to be
but never have been a huge dog/cat/fish LOVER where i had, wanted 500 of them and always had them or something.
i take after my mother, ahem. ;)
BUT,
Bewtcut and I have had 2 dogs during our 10yrs of marriage.
A basset hound named Apache during our 1st year that didn't quite work out
and then about 5 years ago we had a weenie dog named Ernie that we had to unfortunately let go of after about a year and 1/2 .
Both of these circumstances we had them since puppies,
Bewtcut was gone a lot,
we had to deal with peeing everywhere, pooing everywhere, crying, whining, puppy stages
and my own babies and doing it alone alot so it wasn't the BEST experiences for us, do u know what i mean??
it wasn't horrible by any means, but it wasn't that great.
and our kids were small, crawling around...so it was almost like one more thing to worry about.
Fast forward to 2012.
I do still have a 2yr old that wants to eat puppy food and such
BUT
i have older children now that can pick up poop, and take the puppy out to go "peepies"
and have a lot more responsibility to take care of a dog
and that have been aching for a puppy and letting us know for years now how much they want one.
So for the past few months I've been thinking about getting one,
i KNOW, ME...it truly must be the end of the world, psshh.
Bewtcut was sort of against it, but we just started looking online in our local classified ads
and he's always loved daschund's and i was looking at all the fluffy mini dogs that you can put bows on and such, haha
but then we saw this weenie dog that just came on that day
he was rescued from an abusive situation.
He had been beaten and starved, purebred red daschund dog,
a year old
that was still, in spite of his circumstances, a complete love machine.
that was it.
the right price, the right dog,
and we had a good feeling about him and felt good that we could be giving him a good home.
So, introducing...Mr. Weenie. (said in German accent, Mr. "Veeenie")
we say it normal too, but it's super fun to say german-ish ;p
isn't he distinguished? ;)
don't u love his coat?? haha, Bewtcut didn't think he needed one, psshh it's cold outside!
and he needs to look fly around the neighborhood, duh
and for someone who was being a butt about getting a dog,
Bewtcut's just a big softy at heart and he and Mr. Weenie were BFF's like right away,
in fact...
Mr. Weenie slept under the covers IN OUR BED next to Bewtcut's chest for half the night
(but we won't tell anyone, will we...ahem.)
He was shivering a lot and had his tail tucked between his legs the first few hours he was home with us
but he slowly became more and more comfortable.
he would cuddle on your lap
and even
slept comfortably in his lil' bed
the big girls didn't know we were getting a dog
so when they got home from school they were surprised with the puppy and Piper fell on the floor
and they both kept saying they couldn't believe it!!
by the end of the night they were ALL in heaven!!
and i'm happy to say he was playing and wagging his tail by dinnertime, which was a good sign. :)
Like i said, i wasn't the biggest dog lover,
but this lil' guy has stolen my heart.
his scrawny body, u can count his ribs and spine bones...
i just can't believe people can be so cruel.
and yet here he is
willing to love and cuddle and be so sweet
and wanting to be loved so MUCH despite all he's been through during his first year of life.
his heart is SO big
he literally just wants to cuddle all the time on your lap
and just chills on the couch all the time
he's perfectly sweet and fits right in.
Most importantly he makes our kids SO HAPPY and they need that and I'm glad we could provide that for them.
aaaaaand, i totally want to go back and get him more coats and sweaters,
sorry buddy...you came into a house of girls, you're gonna get dressed up.
get used to it Mr. Weenie!! ;D
