For anyone who hasn't been keeping up in person or in Shalome's blog or in the Dogs group or wherever, we adoped Leo a couple weeks after we started fostering him.
Here's the scoop for those of you who haven't heard it already:
We were fostering him, with every intention of letting him go to a good home when the time came, and getting another foster dog, until we had a bigger house with a bigger yard and more time, etc. Shortly after we started fostering him, we realized that we wanted to keep him, but we decided that it wasn't going to work, because he was so big, and without a guaranteed method of getting him out of day care every day (the day care place closes before Shalome can get there from work, and I don't drive) --nevermind the expense of having him in there every day--, we didn't have anything to do with him during the day, and didn't want to keep him locked inside, or out in our small yard. But a couple of times of not being able to take him into day care led me to take him into SGHQ with me during the day, where he got along with everyone and curled up under my desk and slept all day, except when he came out and ran with me on my breaks.
So when we saw that the adoption agency had put up his listing on their site, our hearts sank, and we knew that we couldn't give him up. We'd figure out a way to keep him. I brought a couple blankets and some toys and treats (and some air freshener) into SGHQ, and started alternating taking him with me to work and getting people to give me rides when possible so that he could still go to day care sometimes, and when the adoption agency called us to ask us to bring him into their weekly adoption event, we said we'd rather just adopt him ourselves, and they were very happy to hear that because they were worried about placing him with someone good.
So he's been our dog for a little over a month now, and he's awesome. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect dog to suit our lifestyle.
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In other news, we haven't been going out much at all, as we're saving money and paying down our already small debts and stuff, but I really want to get out soon. Staying home is starting to get old.
bean!
Here's the scoop for those of you who haven't heard it already:
We were fostering him, with every intention of letting him go to a good home when the time came, and getting another foster dog, until we had a bigger house with a bigger yard and more time, etc. Shortly after we started fostering him, we realized that we wanted to keep him, but we decided that it wasn't going to work, because he was so big, and without a guaranteed method of getting him out of day care every day (the day care place closes before Shalome can get there from work, and I don't drive) --nevermind the expense of having him in there every day--, we didn't have anything to do with him during the day, and didn't want to keep him locked inside, or out in our small yard. But a couple of times of not being able to take him into day care led me to take him into SGHQ with me during the day, where he got along with everyone and curled up under my desk and slept all day, except when he came out and ran with me on my breaks.
So when we saw that the adoption agency had put up his listing on their site, our hearts sank, and we knew that we couldn't give him up. We'd figure out a way to keep him. I brought a couple blankets and some toys and treats (and some air freshener) into SGHQ, and started alternating taking him with me to work and getting people to give me rides when possible so that he could still go to day care sometimes, and when the adoption agency called us to ask us to bring him into their weekly adoption event, we said we'd rather just adopt him ourselves, and they were very happy to hear that because they were worried about placing him with someone good.
So he's been our dog for a little over a month now, and he's awesome. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect dog to suit our lifestyle.
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In other news, we haven't been going out much at all, as we're saving money and paying down our already small debts and stuff, but I really want to get out soon. Staying home is starting to get old.
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New SGHQ mascot, perhaps?
-TM