SNOWBALL'S
ARRIVAL
I had been looking
for another little dog to adopt. Boo and I both need some
cheering up so
another playful pup in our life to help along those lines would be great.
Getting Don to
agree to this was tricky. As I really did want him to agree
or have to final
word as he has
to do most of the major work around here. So what I did was:
I called the
Delaware County S.P.C.A. and told them that I was a COPD patient and on
o2 and it made
it very difficult to make numerous trips out there to keep looking for
the
pet I wanted.
So if anyone brought in a small white under 10 pound dog of any type
to call me and
I would come down.
Well on Friday
the 23 of April ,2000 a lady brought Snowball, a 6 lb., 5 year old Toy
Poodle into the
shelter. When they could not promise her what would happen to it.
She decided she
just couldn't leave her there. The shelter gave her my phone
number
and she called
in the early afternoon. Since Don works at home now, most of the
daytime calls are business related, so I just let him answer the phone.
He said "hello" and then I heard him say, "Oh she did huh? well I
guess you could do that. ok bye." That's about
all he said
and when a call concerns both of us, he will come out of his office and
tell me about the call. Well he didn't and a few minutes later my
curiosity was killing me because of the "oh, she did huh" comment.
So I went back to his office and asked him what the call was about.
He says why didn't you tell me you left a call at S.P.C. A. for another
dog? I told him
I did not honestly
think they would call me. He says well, maybe they would or would
not have they did give your number to a lady who is on her way over her
to see if we want her
toy poodle.
I said does that mean you don't mind . He just gave me that look
that means
"Sure I don't
have enough to do yet, I can take on one more responsibility."
But when the
lady came in the house with Snowball, Well, Don and i both were a gonner.
She jumped right
into Don's arms and she has been there ever since.
She now sits
on a stool by the side of don at his Cad system while he works away
in his
office all day
long. He has even installed Dogz on the computer of his so
she can compute with the dogs while he is working on his stuff. There
they are side by side 'putting away day after day. S he does need
some poodle grooming, and as soon as I find a place that will do it close
by she goes in for a clean up. In the meantime we have shampooed
her and one initial trip to the vet to catch her up on things.
