Adopting A Dog

I’m cheating today, it’s Sunday which means I don’t have to spend ages cooking… yeay.! \o/ So I’m just going to knock up a quick Cajun spiced linguine and put it with the spiced fishcakes I made two weeks ago that have been in the freezer since. Surprisingly, I remembered to take them out of the freezer last night. Go me.! So dinner is going to be quick and easy.

Bear’s on another late shift today, but he has tomorrow off. Woohoo.! 😀 Not that we’ll do much, unless I can drag him away from Twitter. I might just get him involved in making another quiche. I didn’t get to the kitchen cupboard doors yesterday, somehow I managed to forget that was what I was going to do… so I’ll try to remember to start them today.

I woke up this morning with a sore throat and a running nose, after spending a lot of the night coughing. Great… all I need.! Not. Gave it a blast of Ibuprofen, but other than the throbbing in my head that had started, disappearing, it hasn’t done a lot. I’ll blast it again in an hour or so. I will not be ill. Especially when once I am, I seem to be for months on end.

We’ve started looking into beginning the process of adopting a dog. Our local shelter train all their dogs so they are more likely to be adopted and train the adopters to help them integrate with the dog that’s been chosen for them. I like that they choose your dog, rather than you just go in and say I’ll take that one with no idea as to whether you’ll all get along. That way they know the dog will suit your needs, you will suit the dog’s needs and the dog won’t get dumped back at the shelter because you didn’t realise just how much work it was going to be.

They do an initial at home interview, so that they can see what size your home is, how cluttered, or not, it is and if you have kids, and/or other animals. They discuss what kind of dog you’re looking for and try to match you with a dog that could happily live in those conditions and will be happy with you. I know this won’t be easy for us, as my OCD and mobility issues mean Bear will be doing the majority of the walks.

He’s never had a dog before and I don’t want to get in the way of him not experiencing that kind of love and devotion because of my daft hang-ups. So I’m going to have to give full disclosure and see what they think, and see what kind of dog they think will suit us, if they have one. We’d like a Bassett Hound, but that’s just a pipe dream. Pure breeds have awful health issues and finding a Bassett Hound for sale is next to impossible.

I had a pure breed Beagle some years ago, she had heart, sight and hearing issues, poor girl and had to be put to sleep late last year after losing control of pretty much every bodily function. The vet felt it was the kindest thing to do for her. I miss that little girl. I’ve always had a pet of some sort; cats, dogs, rabbits, hamsters, gerbils, even a pet spider for a while. 🙂