We Have a New Dog!

We have a new dog named Annie. She is a golden retriever who is four years old. We drove to Colorado Springs to meet Annie and see if she was the perfect fit for our family. She was the perfect fit so we decided to adopt her and bring her home. We got Annie from Retriever Rescue of Colorado, but she was staying with a nice foster family.

She has the same name as our old dog, but we did not name her. Her foster family picked that name and we thought it was great so we're keeping it.

September 7, 2007 - Riding on Air Scruffy

I was walking Scruffy and we were on the street to go home. And then he saw a bunny rabbit and he started running when I was talking to my Dad. I fell down but the first thing I said before I started crying was, “Get Scruffy!” And then I started crying and I was bleeding on my third finger, my wrist, and my elbow. I scraped a lot of skin off. Later that day his owners came home and got him.

September 2, 2007 - More About Scruffy

Scruffy wanted to go for a walk before we even had breakfast. And then we couldn’t take him for his evening walk because it was raining. We brushed him and gave him Cheerios because that's what makes him hold still. And then we gave him a bone. I read to him while he chewed his bone. I read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.

September 1, 2007 - Scruffy the Puppy

Today Scruffy was really like a puppy. He chewed up things and got things he wasn’t supposed to. He got dirt out of the tree in our house (editor’s note: fake moss in a fake plant). He got the newspaper and chewed it up. He got the poop bag when we were outside and ran around with it.

We took him for a walk in the morning and then we are going to take him for a walk after I get finished with this blog post.

Here is a picture of the three of us laying down in the yard.

August 31, 2007 - Taking Care of Scruffy

This is the weekend that I’m taking care of Scruffy. He gets to sleep in my bedroom. But first he has to be in the kennel – not all the time, but most of the time he’s in my room. Scruffy went to doggy day care today and then he gets to stay home on the weekend. He got a bath and something like a doggy ice cream treat. He didn’t like the hair dryer so he felt a little damp when I got home.

Here’s a picture of him in my room in his kennel.

Here is Scruffy in the yard.

Scruffy says, "Hi Cami. Hi Sawyer."

July 22, 2007

I already told you that my Mom’s working at my school this year. Here is a picture of her.

Scruffy came over yesterday for a couple of hours. Because we are going to be taking care of him probably for five days so he came over so that he could get used to the house and used to us. Here are some pictures.