Category Archives: Off-Topic

Another day, another rained-out photoshoot! I’ll let my dog illustrate my feelings on the matter:

OK, I’ll admit, we do need the rain… by “we,” I mean “anything that grows out of the soil (and those who grow things)” (which is to say, not me specifically, but hey, I eat vegetables, so, hooray for rain!) But still, I’m always a bit disappointed when the weather makes me shuffle my calendar around, especially when said calendar is getting packed and shuffling becomes much more difficult! OK, I guess I have nothing to complain about – I just wanted to post a silly picture of my dog

Here’s hoping next week’s weather is more cooperative!

We have our dog!

Her name is Edie, and I’m totally smitten. Obedience training, and general doting, are in a close race with makeup as my top preoccupation of the moment. She’s fabulous; really well-behaved and easygoing for an 8-month-old rescue mutt. I’ll do my best to stay on-topic but I had to share her cute little face!

We are visiting potential dogs this weekend! I am so excited and nervous. We’ve been thinking about this for a long time – we’ve both worked with dogs and cared for friends’ dogs (my family had one when I was growing up, too), and we are finally ready to bring one home.

Last weekend we were a day too late to adopt a REALLY cute, active Pug/Boston Terrier/Etc. mix at Dakin Animal Shelter where I volunteered some time last year… she was already claimed unfortunately, and the other dogs are the shelter were too large for our apartment-dwelling lifestyle. So we perused Petfinder and narrowed our choices down to two dogs, very different dogs, but both adorable!

Here’s bachelorette #1, Bianca, who we are visiting today. She’s listed as a boxer mix but she could be almost anything! Apparently she is well-mannered, won’t chase our cat or bark much (useful, so we don’t get evicted), and loves to walk, play and snuggle on the couch. She was rescued in Georgia as part of a case of animal neglect, but warmed up quickly to her foster parents:

And here’s bachelorette #2, Mimi, who we’ll see tomorrow morning. She’s listed as a Pug/Beagle mix, but again, I see different muttishness going on. (That’s not an insult; we both LOVE mutts.) Maybe some terrier? She’s apparently crazy-cuddly, love to toss her toys in the air (she totally has fierce-face in the pic below, hahaha), and is afraid of cats. She was abandoned in Tennessee – I guess her “owners” just left the door open for her, and took off. I don’t understand people sometimes, sigh…

So we have a lot of thinking to do – maybe one will be perfect, or maybe neither would be suitable for our home. (I’m worried that, at 55lbs, Bianca will be too big. Our landlords suggested we get a smaller-sized dog… and there’s the added problem that she looks a bit like a pit bull. We love pit bulls, but we know that landlords with kids generally do not.)

Well, I guess we’ll see how this goes!