Well I figured I should write a post for once. Some people may have already heard, but we got a puppy on Nov. 16th. Unfortunately the puppies that Jana blogged about earlier did not happen. We got an email that Bella lost her litter and we would have to wait until spring to get on another list for a puppy.
Feeling a little down about having to wait longer I decided to check out petfinder.com. To digress briefly, months ago Jana and I had decided when I got my hunting dog that we would name him Milo. We also had always envisioned a yellow lab. So back to petfinder. I filtered my search to labs, then males, then puppies and a number of puppies came up. Most were not purebred, but then one name popped out of the list, MILO. I opened the link and called upstairs for Jana to come down.
We both couldn't believe what we were reading. He was an 11 week old, purebred yellow lab, named Milo. We decided it had to be a sign so we filled out the adoption forms. The form asked for 2 references. Our friends across town, Jake and Lacy, work with foster animals and I ride to work with Jake daily, so they were an obvious choice. We let them know we had used them as a reference and come to find out one of Lacy's close friends is fostering Milo. That connection helped us speed up the process and 3 days later Milo was at our house for a home visit. Long story short he hasn't left since.
This is Milo on his 1st night at our house.
Feeling a little down about having to wait longer I decided to check out petfinder.com. To digress briefly, months ago Jana and I had decided when I got my hunting dog that we would name him Milo. We also had always envisioned a yellow lab. So back to petfinder. I filtered my search to labs, then males, then puppies and a number of puppies came up. Most were not purebred, but then one name popped out of the list, MILO. I opened the link and called upstairs for Jana to come down.
We both couldn't believe what we were reading. He was an 11 week old, purebred yellow lab, named Milo. We decided it had to be a sign so we filled out the adoption forms. The form asked for 2 references. Our friends across town, Jake and Lacy, work with foster animals and I ride to work with Jake daily, so they were an obvious choice. We let them know we had used them as a reference and come to find out one of Lacy's close friends is fostering Milo. That connection helped us speed up the process and 3 days later Milo was at our house for a home visit. Long story short he hasn't left since.
This is Milo on his 1st night at our house. 
Milo came to work with me the next day. He spent most of the day sleeping, judging by his choice of positions I guess he was fairly content. The last 3 weeks have been great and we think he is absolutely adorable, but they have also been challenging. Sera, our Yorkie, was not as welcoming of Milo as we were, but she is coming around. House training and obedience training had me about to snap this morning after our routine morning walk, but in the end he is so cute it's hard to be mad. One positive thing about house training Milo, we will be looking at finally replacing the ugly carpet in the living room once he is trained. 
So our house is turning into a zoo, but Jana and I couldn't be happier with Milo. Now he just needs to learn about pheasant hunting and what his true purpose in the family is. :)
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