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Saturday, August 4, 2007

Welcome Home, Rumor!

Dylan and I made the trip to Mt. Gilead, OH yesterday to go get our new family member, Rumor! It was so fun to see 6 of the 8 pups at Linda's playing together... they are SO adorable! Field's new owner took him home while I was there - Linda gave me the opportunity to choose which pup I wanted between Forest, Stone and Meadow. They are all so fantastic and so great... a *very* tough decision.... but, in the end, I had to bring Forest home as my new baby boy. He has been my favorite since day one and he is such a love bug! I knew I would have been happy with any pup I took home, but I have a feeling Forest (now "Rumor") and I will become a good team.

Rumor was in a crate in my car next to Dylan for the whole ride.... I think Dylan was wondering who the little midget was... he's a bit confused about the whole situation. Rumor whined for about 20 or 30 min. after we left Linda's and then he passed out! What a fantastic traveler. I stopped periodically to let the boys potty and then he would whine for another 5 min before going back to sleep. I was quite pleased with our trip home... it went much better than I expected.
On the way home we stopped at Kelly's house so she could see my new kid -- she loves him! Rumor met Kelly along with 2 others... and we introduced him to 3 of her 5 dogs in a 1-on-1 basis... he was adjusting very well. We were there for about 5 hrs... Rumor would play, nap, potty, play, potty, nap and potty :) I figured that was quite a day for the little guy... so we went home and went directly to bed. Rumor cried for a bit, but then seemed to settle in... we got about 5 1/2 hrs of sleep before he started whining again -- so we went out, he pottied and we went back to bed after a little play session... it was fantastic!
Rumor has done well in the elevators as well as meeting 5 new 4-legged friends this morning... plus a little kid... so, he seems tuckered out right now and is taking a nap... Dylan and I had our time together outside without the new little creature :)

I could not be more pleased with my new little boy - I'm very excited for our future together!

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Oh Whitney, he looks so cute with his new bone! I haven't seen him since Wed. morning, I miss them!

Polly said...

Welcome home, Rumor! Can't wait to meet the little bugger!

Polly said...

Thanks for letting me stop by yesterday to meet the little kid. He sure is a cutie and seems to be adjusting to city life without a problem. I look forward to seeing him grow up to be the awesome dog he is destined to be!