Two weeks ago we decided that now is a good time to rescue a dog because Christine is not yet working and has time to help out. We initially went to a shelter looking for a lab puppy that was advertised on their website but instead we fell in love with this face:

She is a yellow Labrador Retriever mix of some sort and approximately 6 months old and 35 pounds. She was perfect! We were told that we would be second on the waiting list for her and to come the very next day at 10am and if the other family wasn’t there on time, that she would be ours. We came back the next day and she was ours, but we had to wait a few days for her to get spayed and checked out by the vet. We spent the rest of the weekend running around town buying things we would need for the new member of the family.

We nervously waited the next few days until we could go pick her up and bring her home with us. With such a sweet face and mellow disposition, we decided to call her Lucy since we didn’t know her first name. When we brought her home the first night, we slept on the floor with her in the living room since the crate we bought for her wasn’t quite big enough. After the first day she did not seem like she was feeling too well and began to exhibit some strange behaviors, namely deep sleeping and shallow breathing, and a terrible runny nose and cough. We took her to an emergency vet and they told us that we was running a high fever and had a sinus infection, pneumonia, and possible complications with her spay surgery. Yikes!

They admitted her to the animal hospital and kept her for the Labor Day weekend and put her on an IV for antibiotics to help with her infections. She came home Tuesday evening and looked a lot better but still had the runny nose, but a much wagglier tail. She has been a pretty good dog so far, she loves her new people and has learned a lot already. We think that she has had some training because she is housebroken and understands some basic commands. She hates her new, larger crate and cries and barks when we put her in it for the night. She is still adjusting to being home we think and has some separation anxiety when she is left alone.

She is learning how to play with her various toys, it seems like her previous owner did not play with her much at all. She is learning how to be a Labrador and is catching on to playing fetch and tug-o-war nicely. Soon we hope to be able to work up to frisbee.

We are very excited about having her in the family and we hope you can all meet her “in the fur” sometime soon!