Dog update

July 19, 2006

Several people have asked what's going on with our dog adoption. Here's the latest: we finally got approved (!) at the SPCA and all four of us went there last week to "visit" a dog - after the visit we found out that the dog we had picked (I call her Blackie, though no one else likes that name) was already being considered by someone else and we would have to wait and see what they did (the staff weren't supposed to let us visit Blackie b/c of her "hold" status, but they just overlooked the paperwork in her file). In the meantime we answered a local ad for a dog "free to a good home" b/c the owner is moving to NYC and can't take the dog with him. Meeko is a shepard mix. We're in the process of arranging to meet her (and her owner). Then, the SPCA calls and says that "our" dog was NOT adopted and is available. Yikes! We told the SPCA to take the hold off that dog (so that someone else can adopt her if they want) while we sort things out with Meeko. So it's sort of raining dogs right now. Everything is still up in the air, so we'll let you know how it all turns out.