Lost My Mind

Hello Everyone.  Hope the weekend is going great for all of you.

Well I have lost my mind!  Yep! I made a big decision based on my heart and not my mind.  My mind lost and my heart won.

As many of you know that follow my blog we lost  our beautiful rescue Cooper a few years ago to cancer.  Oh how we loved that guy.  He blessed us in so many ways.

Then we took the plunge again and adopted Peggy another rescue basset hound.  Her story was a little different than Coopers.  

We got her and found out she was starving with having so many bad teeth and infections in her mouth.  So we did the surgeries to correct her bad teeth and heavy antibiotics followed to clear up the massive infection. 

Peggy began to eat again and gain some weight.  Shortly after all her surgeries we began to see she was exhibiting a lot of anxiety and separation issues from me.  We tried everything with her and nothing worked for months.  It was heart wrenching to come home from just going to the grocery store for an hour to find her worn out from pacing and throwing up and panting from anxiety attacks.  So the next step would have been to drug her and I did not want to do that to her. 

  So what to do?!!!

My smart and wonderful Vet said since she came from only knowing  being in a pack of dogs she probably was missing being with a pack to feel secure.  She made me her pack leader and since there were no other pack animals beside me home with her she would freak out with anxiety.

So the Vet suggested finding her a home where there were more kids and family members so she could find a pack again.

I thought long and hard on this and finally thought as hard as it was going to be to give her up and how heart broken I was over this I wanted her to have a good life.

So we found through divine intervention a wonderful home where there were three kids and a mom and dad home with her.  She is thriving now.  No anxiety and she loves this family especially the kids.  Her new pack.  

With all of this said Terry and I still missed her and having a dog.  We have had dogs all our married life.  So it just did not feel right in our home about not having a dog.

We told ourselves we would take a break with all the other things going on in our lives to maybe again some day dream of having another sweet fur angel in our lives.

  We would see people walking their dogs and just sigh and say someday, someday soon.  For now we need to be strong and be patient.

Then I get an email from Coop's rescue saying they were in desperate need of fosters.  They wanted me to take on a foster or two!!!!

I said I will have to think about it.  I knew if I fostered I could never give up the dog when they found a home.

Ok finally after that long read this is where I have lost my mind.  Gone off the rails and over the edge!!!

 I would like to introduce you to Buddy our newest little family member.

This is Buddy when we got him on Friday from the breeder fostering him.

He is a 6 month old dachshund pup.  Isn't he beautiful.  I have never seen a cream dachshund before.

This is my daughters little doxie Snickers.  She is a mini and what is called a reverse dapple.  Her markings are rare in the dachshund world. She is so tiny compared to the regular size doxie like Buddy.

So now Buddy will have a new playmate with Snickers already in our family.

He is giving you a profile shot here.  Did you notice that someone is taking over my lounge chair!!!  Hmmmm just sayin!!!!

So far he has been a great little boy.  It is a training session for both him and us with him being a puppy.  Patience is the name of the game.  Patience is not my best suit,  but I am trying!

Ok get this fun fact!  Beauty Rest make dog beds.  We got this one from Home Goods for Buddy.  He loves it. 

I have to say I laid in it in the Home Goods to check it out and it is pretty comfy. 

Yep! I laid right down in this in the middle of the doggie section of Home Goods.  I figured if I love it he would too!

So our new little man will be training Terry and I !!! and becoming a great little addition to our family.

I wanted to wait to do something like this again but is there really ever a good time to add a new member to your family?  We are always busy with our lives and he is just going to help us to slow life down some.

So you might see  Buddy showing up in some future posts.

Terry is almost done with the Murphy Bed.  It is not a hard project just time consuming.  We have had a lot of interruptions too.

Hoping to have that post up this week for you.
Hugs,
Kris