The New Puppy Day 1

The New Puppy

She is home safe. It was quite an ordeal to get her here though.

I have a broken tooth which got infected. I finally had a dentist appointment yesterday at 3:00. I talked the dentist into not pulling it yesterday and letting me continue on antibiotics for a couple more days.  The pup got fixed yesterday and was located an hour away. She had to be picked up by 5:00 or we had to pay an extra 20 dollars to board her. There is no night shift person and I did not want her to be left alone. So we made a mad dash down the hill to get there before they closed. I got out of the dentist about 3:35 and we felt we had plenty of time to get there. We made good time down the hill but they are doing roadwork on the freeway and we got stuck in traffic. The four lane freeway went down to only two lanes. It took us a half an hour to go seven miles. We were cutting it short. We called the vet and told the nurse what was going on. She agreed to wait for us…Whew!

I never heard of vets fixing such a young dog. She is estimated to be only 2 months old. I did some research and found that a very competent vet could get the job done but I still worried. Remember I have not yet seen the pup in person. When I first got my eyes on her my heart broke. Had we not rescued her she would have been euthanized yesterday. Her time was up, sad but true.

We got her home and of course our three dogs went nuts. Little Roxi is still having issues and will not sit with us cause we smell like her. The pup was still groggy from the anesthesia, so she slept in the doggie playpen until bedtime. We then put her in the kennel and into our bedroom. She slept until about 2:30 when she wined and we took her out. She did her business and we all went back to bed. Because she has been in the shelter we want to try to keep her separated from our dogs in case she gets kennel cough.

Day one done, on to day two.

We have still not decided on a name and are still taking suggestions.