Our "oops" child
Posted on | January 28, 2010 | 3 Comments
On an ordinary day in May '08, our nine year old lab refused to go poop (sorry, it's the easiest way to say it). She would walk around the yard squatting invisible turds of nothingness, slowly becoming a bloated mess. So naturally, we took her to the vet. Of course this turned out to be constipation ($200 dollars worth of constipation). Our vet nonchalantely said as we were leaving, "she's probably only has 1 or 2 good years left." A plump breeder, we'll call her Devious, chimed in and said they have the best English Labradors in Southern Oregon. B naturally is interested as Devious tells him how she has puppies a bit too old to sell full price so we'll get one at half - "They make fabulous hunting dogs - and OH you should see them with children!" We slept on this a day or two and one morning B said "I think we'll go get that dog!" I mumbled something like, "err okay zzz" while I lay in bed partially conscious. Later as we drove to a little farm in the rural high desert of Oregon, it hit me - why are we getting a third dog? I immediately envisioned insane amounts of yellow hair and a broken down pooper scooper. But oh how a puppy face and woo you.
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- April
- I am a RN & natural momma in the Pacific Northwest, married to a beautiful man I adore. Nature is my niche, animals get me. I read and I write, I hike and I love photography. Welcomed our daughter Hazel Annan earthside in February 2012 after three years of infertility & our second miracle daughter Juniper Louise in April 2014.
January 29, 2010 at 1:42 AM
I totally understand you... They're really high maintenance but we can only love them. I wish I had a dog now. I've had one all my life, but now, living in a flat in the city, it really isn't possible. He would be so miserable.
Hope Gus gets well soon. :) He's soooo cute.
January 30, 2010 at 7:36 AM
Our new addition, Penny was an impulse adoption, we love her to death, but she will most certainly be our "problem child". Tuesday I stayed home sick, she rolled in the mud and then came in the house and shaked out on the bed and let me know just how much fun she was having.
You labs are so cute. Where are pics of the mutt?? Hope Gus gets better soon!!
January 30, 2010 at 3:28 PM
aw ape! you love them all so much. poor gus. and yet I know you can't help but think "omg, two grand??!?" at least that's what I would be thinking. cause I freaked the one time I had to bring Bo to the vet for a shot to stop drooling. haha. but we do love them and in the end, spending the money is totally worth having them in your life :)