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'Had a hard time naming a title for this post. Any of the ones bouncing around in my head that were fighting each other for the prized spot could have worked;  "Getting back on the horse" ... "Taking the plunge"  ... "OMG OMG OMG OMG"   Why all the angst you ask? Because we just picked out a new puppy, THAT'S why! It's been a year and three months since we lost Alexis and only a little over a month since we lost Annabelle so moving on has been emotional to say the least.

Alexis' breeder had a new litter for the first time in five years and was doing a litter showing yesterday so we went to see the pups. Just taking a look! Just browsing! No intention of picking one out but if it happened, it happened. But apparently there were other forces in the universe that I knew nothing about and it's name is DAVE.  He had been missing having a dog around but our agreement was that he got to pick the next breed and I would wait my turn and hold my horses for another Doberman. I was perfectly fine with that.  We had also agreed to wait til next spring and try to get in one more major trip before we hunkered down with dogs again. Both of these agreements fell apart like signing a contract with a minor.  The puppies were adorable. DUH! that's redundant. Of course they were adorable. It's like saying supermodels are pretty. It doesn't need to be said. So we played these no-need-for-description puppies for about two hours...well it was more like we got licked and crawled on by seven adorable little 4week old puppies that smelled like puppy feet and newspapers. Oops redundancy again, sorry! There was one red male in the bunch and he was the sweetest cuddliest little thing. He kept climbing into my zip sweater to cuddle. But MAN was he a whiner! He whined the whole time. He whined as he sat on the ground. He whined when he walked around. He whined himself to sleep. He even whined that there was nothing to whine about. I would have picked him but whining is one of my many doggie pet peeves and i think he would have driven me absolutely batty!  Then there was this other black male who seemed pretty quiet and calm, liked to be picked up that seemed to stay by my side much of the time we were there. So after handling all of the pups and hanging out with them getting to know them I picked this little guy. I think he picked me before I picked him but that's ok.  He even agreed to it by peeing on my foot.