A Dog's Tale

Are you ready for an epistle? You are? OK.. settle in for a story. We've had dogs our entire married life. We got a liver spotted Dalmatian as our first pup. In Louisiana. We named him Maximillian but he didn't respond to that, so we called him Baba. :-) Over the years we've had many different breeds. Our last guy Buddy was a Cairn Terrier and he was our best dog ever. As you may know he crossed over the rainbow bridge a month ago. We took some time to decide if we wanted another dog and if so, what kind. I finally convinced Dayle that we needed another bundle of love. Meet Mocha, an 8 month old black brindle Cairn girl. :-)

Her family adopted a brother and sister from the same litter. She was very loved and well taken care of, but they found having two 8 month old dogs were extremely difficult to train at once. So, they made the very hard decision that they would let go of Mocha and keep Smoky, her brother. Dayle actually found her on the online "PuppyFind.com". I emailed back and forth with Susan and we made arrangements to meet up in The Dalles, half way between us. We had a nice chat with them and then they said their goodbyes and we headed home with our new girl.

We drove home along the Columbia River. Mocha was just fine on the trip home.

At a stop I snapped a photo of Dayle with our new baby.

She seemed to love us immediately. When we got home she jumped up on my lap and I gave her a hug and some pets.

Then she climbed up onto my shoulder to look outside the bay window and check out her new home.

Well.. this is an interesting place for her to settle in to. :-)

And here she is relaxing on my footrest while I crochet. Dayle is on the floor with a bowl of her kibble giving her a snack and playing with her.

And so she is fitting in very well here.

Meeka, my son's 4 year old German Shepherd will be her "big sister" and they have played and played and are getting along well.

I must say they are fun to watch as they interact.

Dayle takes her out every few hours, she needs a little fine-tuning on her housebreaking. She does go to the door to let us know she wants out, but so far mostly what she wants to do is look around the farm yard. LOL!