Puppy Power!!

We met our new doggie today! We found him posted earlier this week on Petfinder.com and arranged to drive up to North Ridgeville to meet him this morning. I was kinda nervous to meet him, but ready to love another furry thing besides my husband, so off we went.

He was found as a stray and has been fostered by a dog trainer for the last couple of weeks and it really showed! He was such a love-bug and a good boy. The trainer showed us how she has been working with him and he has learned a lot in a short amount of time! He is house-broken, crate trained and ready to please. He also has been socialized with the trainers other dogs and plays really well with them. He is about 4 1/2 to 5 months old and already 40 pounds! He is a mastiff/lab mix so he will be at least 80 pounds!! But what a cutie pie! He is light brown, kind of a brindle color with sweet brown eyes and gigantic webbed feet (he might be a swimmer!)

It really was not a hard decision to make; we all feel in love with him almost instantly. We made a list of the need to purchase items to prepare for his arrival next Saturday. The dog trainer will deliver him to us and provide an hour of training for us then - which is all included in the adoption fee. I am really impressed with the dog rescue organization (F.I.D.O.). The woman was really nice, did a thorough background check on us and they provide this training service for us in order to help the dog with his transition. They also recommended that we continue to have one or two more training sessions with her just to keep him on track. She even said I could train him to run with me. A running buddy!! They have been calling him Brando (for the last couple of weeks only), but they confirmed that it would be okay to change his name. So Mission One during lunch at Subway was to come up with a name so the trainer could start using it with him this week. After much discussion, we choose the name, "Henry". It just seemed to fit him, plus we wanted to stick with an "H" name in honor of our Homer Dog.

I'm excited for next Saturday so we can begin this next phase of our life with a puppy and all the adventures that will inevitably occur. Heck I might even have to start a new blog just for that!!