Monday, May 5, 2008

Non-Adventure #3 Hello Sookie!

So I guess I should apologize to the two people who read this blog, I have been absent from posting because I have been a little busy. I decided a while back that I wanted to get a dog. I tried to adopt this really cute Australian Shepherd/Border Collie mix from a shelter near my sister in Kentucky but the shelter picked some other family to adopt Blueberry and her sister Blackberry. So, after returning home from Kentucky without a dog I decided to check our local shelters. I guess here is where I should say that I have always wanted a Westie, they are those cute little dogs from the Cesar dog commercials, they look like this:

So I found the North Texas Westie Rescue and they didn't have any girl dogs at the time I was looking, and so somehow I stumbled onto the Oklahoma Westie Rescue (okwestierescue.com) and I found two dogs I liked. The first was this kind of awkward but cute dog named Pepper and the other was a cute puppy named Zoe. I filled out an application to adopt Zoe and after a long process involving them calling references and having a home visit I was approved to adopt. The thing was the process took sooo long that someone else adopted Zoe first. When chosen to adopt one of their rescues you must come pick up the dog in person. So the after being approved my first available weekend to make the journey to Oklahoma was the last weekend in April. So I decided I would go then and meet the dogs and I would then make my final decision about which dog I wanted to adopt. So on that Sunday after church my wonderful friend Baylee and I hit the road for (a long, long, long) trip through Oklahoma. Our first stop was Oklahoma City to pick up Pepper (her current foster family was moving and if I didn't adopt her they were going to have to move her to another foster home in Tulsa) and take her on with us to Tulsa where the other dogs were. So we left OKC and drove a very boring drive to Tulsa and finally arrived at Meredith's (one of the ladies in charge of the Westie Rescue) house we met several of the other dogs including two others I had been looking at online a dog named Jenna and another named Bruce. Bruce was very cute and had he been a girl I would have got him. Looking at the girl dogs online I was leaning towards Jenna but when I got there she was very blah, she was personalityless, and I really liked Pepper the dog we picked up in OKC. She was cuter than her online pictures and she was fun. So I officially adopted Pepper. She is super cute and has a TON of energy. Because she has lived in a foster home since December she is pretty much potty trained and she is a great car dog she pretty much sleeps once the car gets going. So a big big thank you to Baylee who went along with me as my travel buddy and chat partner. Here is a picture of me with my new dog who was named Pepper but who I have renamed Sookie. (like the character from Gilmore Girls, one of my all time favorite shows!) So here is my new dog Sookie: