at the beginning of july, we had newton (yellow lab) in our home for a week, and gabe LOVED it! he would "walk" the dog, lie on the dog, pull his tail, screech and shout at him, and in general, just had a riot with newton. when i got home from returning newton at PADS, gabe was looking all over the house for him. and he'd look back at me, say "ma?" and hold his arms as if to question me "where's the dog?". i felt so bad for my buddy...he tried so hard to find the dog.
and then i got the call to bring home another dog, tango (black lab). of course, i jumped at the chance to dogsit for 2 weeks, and brought him home last sunday afternoon. by sunday night the dog's fate was sealed and he was on a return trip to PADS on monday. where newton was an uber-tolerant dog, the same was thought of tango. unfortunately he didn't take so kindly to having a toddler leaning/lying on him. so after a brief warning growl, and not enough quick action on my part, tango snapped and tried to bite gabe. fortunately gabe was moving away from the dog anyways, and only got a cheekful of dog slobber, but had he been a second slower, there definitely would've been more serious repercussions.
our dogless days didn't last long though! we brought acadia (black lab) into our home a few days later. i jumped at the chance to have her...she was actually raised by the family that adopted nugget and raised his sister (diamond). they have 3 kids in their household, so i knew she`d be fine with gabe. unfortunately at some point over the weekend she got into one of our garbage bins and threw up last night at her new sitters' house :( it was the first time a dog (of any age) has gone through my bins. mental note...close the bathroom doors and cover the bins!
and today i got another call from PADS, and we'll have paige (chocolate lab) with us in mid-August for a few days. i LOVE my volunteer work :-)
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