Penny for your thoughts?

Meego and I visited the local humane society on Friday, as planned.  Not surprisingly, we ended up bringing home a new family member.  It's for this reason we had NOT visited the humane society until Friday. Who can resist!

Some readers may recall that we had two dogs:  Domino and China.  Our dog count decreased by one when Domino succumbed to pancreatic cancer about 10 years ago, and sweet China became our sole pooch until we had to say good-bye after she'd reached the ripe old age of 17 years about a year and a half ago.

We thought we might foster Greyhounds, but the cat wasn't having it.

So we'd talked about getting another pooch, but waited for the timing to be right.  And here we are, Meego's home on break from school for a good month.  Magnum's got a buncha holiday time off.  I'm in the seasonal lull.  Sounds like pooch time to me!





Blog, meet Penny.  Penny, blog...
















We don't know much about her beginnings, she transferred here to Colorado from New Mexico.  The staff estimates she's 3 to 4 months old.  She weighs about 15 pounds and is a total cutie.  She's the only dog we visited with at the shelter. We were also the first to visit with her.  She had been made available for adoption just that morning and I'm 99.9% sure someone else would have adopted her that day if we didn't.

The shelter was BIZ-ZEEE on Friday.  Here I thought we could go when it was relatively slow, beat the weekend crowds. HA.  But it's good to see so many dogs "flying off the shelves" of the shelter.

She was spayed on Saturday morning, and we picked her up in the afternoon.  She was a bit groggy but has been playfully coming around today.

...although as I look through my pics, it seems she's always laying around

Oh well, making herself at home, which is nice.

Well, the cat's still a bit "WTH?!"