A New Addition

No, not that kind! A puppy! Last Monday I stumbled on an ad on Craigslist for some Blue Heeler cross puppies. Jeff went out and picked up the last available puppy that night. Of all the puppies in the litter we ended up with the only black one. The rest were all blue merle. The mother is a blue heeler that is apparently a great herding dog and the dad could be one of two dogs, the neighbor jack russel terrier or the neighbor black lab. I think our puppy has webbed toes, but I'm not certain. And she's got some pretty decent sized paws so I'm putting my money on the black lab. Rumor has it, the black lab is out of Raven from KARE11. So in the end she has some good breeding (even if she is a lab).

She's staying in our shop for the week until we deliver her to the farm on the weekend. She's a surprise for the family and so far they are doing everything in their power to mess up our plans ;) There's some talk of Jeff's parents going to Colorado this weekend. We haven't spilled the beans yet, we're waiting to hear what's going on.

She's quite the handfull, this little girl puppy. The first night we had her home she was scared and quiet. She played a little bit but was pretty mellow. The next day after work she was a ball of energy. Barking, running around, jumping and hopping, walking on her back legs, whining, and chewing on everything. Since then we've tried to wear her out by playing for several hours after work and as long as we can before work. She seems to do well over night but she gets pretty bored and riled up during the day.

We haven't thought of a name for her yet. The only thing that comes to mind is "little s**t" which while it's applicable, is probably not the best name. And I think we have to give her a name better than "black puppy" (similar to all the cat's names). We're hoping she'll be a good herding dog. She seems to show some heeling instinct. Jeff is hoping she'll want to swim at the lake with his friends and their dogs (since she's part lab after all). I'm hoping she'll stop trying to walk under my feet.

FYI I'm going to schedule this to post after we've supposedly made our puppy delivery to avoid ruining the surprise.