Well in July our Family grew by one!
We'd been looking for a while and kept finding dog after dog and it never worked out. They were always adopted within the hour of me arriving at the shelter, or transferred, or rescued and we were about ready to just accept that this wasn't the time and go back to casual searching; you know, whatever fell in our lap. I went to the shelter that day to see two dogs. When I got there, one had been adopted, the other had been taken by a rescue. My heart sank and I just casually walked through to see the other dogs.... and then I saw her.
Bright eyed and bushy tailed she and her kennel-mate (a big black and white husky) were both very personable and very happy to have visitors (the shelter worker and myself). I found out that BOTH had adoption holds but I filled out the papers on her anyhow, just hoping I might have a chance.
Dog Rescue: The Adoption Wars began. The next morning I went back to the shelter and we were in luck, the family that was going to adopt both her and her kennel-mate had decided to just take her buddy (because they heard from the shelter how excited we were about adopting her and decided she would have a good life with us. To those lovely people, thank you so much for the gift of our beautiful girl.).
We knew before we ever met her what her name would be. If we adopted a boy it would be Han or Chewie and if it was a girl, Leia! Well, she's a girl and her name is Leia. The shelter was able to tell us that she was an owner surrender, about 1.5 years old, and that she was surrendered because her last owner/family had a medical issue and was no longer able to walk her. So they gave her up, hoping for a better life for her. Leia now gets 30 minute walks each morning, and sometimes we run on the tennis court or go for second and even third walks. To her original family we also thank you for allowing her to complete our family.
Leia has settled in well in her first few months. She now has a little buddy in the complex, a yorkie and get this, his name is Obi Wan! No joke!
So the Tale of Two Nerds expands to 3!
