The aquarium is doing great! The plants are thriving and all the toxins appear to be gone. We still have one fish and plan to add two more next time we visit PetsMart.
To continue our dog saga....... (You can read the first part here http://kerrchristianacademy.blogspot.com/2013/03/skippy.html)
Skippy spent 3 weeks at our house. He loved the girls, liked to give Max a hard time, loved to bark at anything and everything and thought Tux, the cat, was great fun to torture. Unfortunately, he also to a decidedly dislike to Craig. This dislike started out with growling every time Craig walked into the room. By the end of the 1st weekend, Skippy was running at Craig and trying to attack his feet. It ended up with Skippy biting Craig on the hand and hanging on. Craig lifted his hand up and Skippy stayed attached. We called the vet, whom we had visited the week before, and were told that there shouldn't be any problems with rabies and to just watch Craig's hand for infection. We also called the rescue society and made arrangements for Skippy to go back. The risk is too great that he would eventually turn on Z or N.
So....... the idea of a new dog has been introduced. The rescue society was willing to work with us on getting another dog. Unfortunately, the dogs they felt would fit with a "wild" household" (the contact lady said that the problem wasn't the dog, it was too many children in the house) were either big dogs or dogs on the insurance no-insure or rate hike list. I'm not interested in keeping a potentially harmful dog. I just returned a dog for biting, why would I get a breed known for biting? Anyway, we left the adoption clinic without a new puppy and the mindset that we had just made a tax deductible donation to the rescue shelter.
Fast forward a few weeks.... We hadn't been back to Rockwall to look for any new dogs mainly because we were out of town for a few of those Saturday's. I have been searching the pet finder website for our local shelter. They had a few possibilities. Then, the e-trader came out with an ad for $20 adoptions at the local Cause for Paws. Their website said they had a few terriers and some other little dogs whose breeds are listed on the great family dogs list.
After violin today, we stopped on our way home and 2 of the several I had picked out online were in the store. Both of them responded well to the kids and one of them was very polite and sweet to me and N. So, for just $40, we came home with 2 little girls: Maranda, a black Pomeranian mix, 4 yrs old; and Jalen, a gray Schnauzer, 6 yrs old. They are slightly younger than Max (10 yrs), but older than Skippy (1 yr). So far, they have been friendly with both Max and Tux. Miranda has apparently had some training as she has spent the afternoon playing fetch with the kids. And both dogs greeted Craig with friendly sniffs and Jalen even tried to climb into his lap and given him kisses.
So far so good......
To continue our dog saga....... (You can read the first part here http://kerrchristianacademy.blogspot.com/2013/03/skippy.html)
Skippy spent 3 weeks at our house. He loved the girls, liked to give Max a hard time, loved to bark at anything and everything and thought Tux, the cat, was great fun to torture. Unfortunately, he also to a decidedly dislike to Craig. This dislike started out with growling every time Craig walked into the room. By the end of the 1st weekend, Skippy was running at Craig and trying to attack his feet. It ended up with Skippy biting Craig on the hand and hanging on. Craig lifted his hand up and Skippy stayed attached. We called the vet, whom we had visited the week before, and were told that there shouldn't be any problems with rabies and to just watch Craig's hand for infection. We also called the rescue society and made arrangements for Skippy to go back. The risk is too great that he would eventually turn on Z or N.
So....... the idea of a new dog has been introduced. The rescue society was willing to work with us on getting another dog. Unfortunately, the dogs they felt would fit with a "wild" household" (the contact lady said that the problem wasn't the dog, it was too many children in the house) were either big dogs or dogs on the insurance no-insure or rate hike list. I'm not interested in keeping a potentially harmful dog. I just returned a dog for biting, why would I get a breed known for biting? Anyway, we left the adoption clinic without a new puppy and the mindset that we had just made a tax deductible donation to the rescue shelter.
Fast forward a few weeks.... We hadn't been back to Rockwall to look for any new dogs mainly because we were out of town for a few of those Saturday's. I have been searching the pet finder website for our local shelter. They had a few possibilities. Then, the e-trader came out with an ad for $20 adoptions at the local Cause for Paws. Their website said they had a few terriers and some other little dogs whose breeds are listed on the great family dogs list.
After violin today, we stopped on our way home and 2 of the several I had picked out online were in the store. Both of them responded well to the kids and one of them was very polite and sweet to me and N. So, for just $40, we came home with 2 little girls: Maranda, a black Pomeranian mix, 4 yrs old; and Jalen, a gray Schnauzer, 6 yrs old. They are slightly younger than Max (10 yrs), but older than Skippy (1 yr). So far, they have been friendly with both Max and Tux. Miranda has apparently had some training as she has spent the afternoon playing fetch with the kids. And both dogs greeted Craig with friendly sniffs and Jalen even tried to climb into his lap and given him kisses.
So far so good......
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