Dexter & stuff

Normally if Petsmart is doing and adoption outside their store, I hold my hands to the side of my face and look straight ahead so I can't see all the cute dogs that need homes. A couple of weeks ago I ran over to Petsmart by my work to grab some food for Chewy, and there he was. A little, tiny Dachshund in one of the cages. Against my better judgement I went over for a closer look and saw that he was emaciated and shaking, and my heart just broke. Again, against my better judgement I asked one of the women outside who was with the shelter that brought the dogs about the little doxie. She said he was an owner surrender and that he's refused to eat and been really depressed since being in the shelter. She dumped him because he liked to chase her cats. My heart broke a little more.

After buying Chewy's food I got in the car and called Scott...and now he's home with us. Our brains told us no, our hearts wouldn't hear of it. Turns out the little guy was not only way too skinny, but had an upper respiratory infection. But now he's neutered, over his infection, and slowly starting to fatten up. We adore him. Chewy adores him. My parents adore him. We wanted to name him Han Solo, but he already answered to Dexter and we didn't want to confuse him. But he's still the Han Solo to our Chewy :)

Our adoption benefit went SO amazingly well. We were completely blown away by the love and support we received. We thought we'd be lucky to get $300; we would have been ecstatic to get $500. We were totally overwhelmed when the tally reached a little over $1700!!! That's a little over half of what we needed for a birth mom so we're thrilled.

Next up in the process is meeting with our assigned case worker, where we smile and nod and try to exude confidence that we will be okay parents. Wish us luck!!