puppy approved!

so last night i was a busy girl. before our yummy dinner at sanafir, i had to be at home for a 5:30 appointment with a PADS representative. i had applied to become a puppy-sitter and i was having my home interview to ensure that the environment was puppy-friendly. i have a few things to pick up off the ground still, but other than that i was given four paws up!

unfortunately the next couple of weeks aren't exactly the best puppy-weekends, and i've told them of my next available weekend, so hopefully i'll be able to bring a puppy home sooner rather than later. they just received 2 puppies today and 3 more arrive tomorrow.

so what happens, you ask? well, during the week i'll receive a call to see if i can take a puppy over the weekend. if i can't, then obviously nothing happens. if i can, on fridays after work i'll take my car out to the PADS kennel, and pick up my puppy and all of his/her belongings. then we go home, get settled, and then it's up to our imagination at that point. the puppy will go everywhere with me. i'm not sure what kind of impact this will have on my social life yet :P so i won't be offended if i'm not invited out anywhere. however, it is imperative that these puppies get exposed to the great big world out there. hopefully i'll even be able to take him/her to a hockey game one day :-) so we'll be out in the lower mainland checking things out, and i'll be armed w/my 10-15 commands for him/her. once the weekend is over, then i return the puppy to the kennel on monday morning before i go to work.

now, this is all easy in theory, so we'll see what happens when i'm put to the test :-)

also, just to show ppl what a big commitment it is, i just came home from attending a puppy class. now, when you get any large group of animals together, you're just asking for trouble! but i'm sure when they're out by themselves getting 1:1 attention, then they're much better behaved. you're actually supposed to attend 2 puppy classes, but since i'm a superstar cuddler already, they've told me i only need one. but i'll still go again next week, and just brush up on the technique and commands.

and that's it! sounds easy, hunh? keep an eye on my blog in the next 3-4 weeks.....we'll see what happens :-)