We adopted a dog!!
I use the word, "adopted," due to the many hoops we had to jump throough to even meet with the "Parents" of the dog.
We were were tired of shopping the Humane Society's offerings. It aseems as if everyone and their idiot cousins have taken on pit bulls and no one wants to deal with a full grown pitbull. So, if you are of a kind soul with plenty of room in your property, then, by all means, get yourself a a cast off pitbulll! They are actually wonderful dogs, very loyal and protective. Simple fact is they are "large terrritory" dogs and do not do well in apartment living.
Any way, people who are turning over dogs in this area are either ridding themselves of pitbulls or really large other breed dogs.
We needed a small dog that would be happy in an urban environment.
We found a beautiful girl dog, two years old, mix breed, only eighteen pounds, immediately took to me upon my arrival at her home (almost as if she recognized the decision maker and the alpha). We had to wait threough three other potential adopters
(WTF!! Really, it has become very difficult to acquire a dog in these stupid times. When I was a kid and you wanted a dog, there were usually two or three kids at each end of every grocery store with boxes of puppies for free.)
These days, you have to prove that you are worthy of keeping a dog. I can see the logic. Dogs are higher, more intelligent animals and deserve the best from humans when being kept as pets or workers or just service animals.
It is almost sad that it has come to this, but when we look at all those asssholes who abuse these amazing animals, I have to hold my tongue from expressing my own frustration. The laws are there to protect these intelligent animals from the abuse of horrible, ignorant owners.
Anyway, we won!!!!
Tomorrow, we will take possession (probably the wrong word - maybe better words would be take companionship or take association or possibly take friendship), but in the eyes of the law, my possession of this dog will be judged for a period of one year, before I can actually keep her for our own.
Sometimes I despise city living!! I just wanted a dog. Not a big one, but one that would be happy living with people inside a house for the most part.
It has been a two year hunt, but I thiunk we have found our dog!!
I will post pics, when it is all done and the adoption has gone from pending to probational.
