Doggie update

So, here's the scoop. The rescue organization (Golden Retriever Rescue of the Rockies, aka GRRR) could never get their s*&$ together enough to respond to my inquiry and application. No email saying they'd received the application, no phone call in response to my calls following up with them, nothing, nada, zilch. I was so frustrated! When I started giving up, after a couple weeks of silence, I found a few poodles and mixes in various shelters / rescues across the country. We applied for a puffy fluffy white poodle named PJ in Wisconsin, and within a couple hours had received a response telling me he'd just been adopted. Did you hear that? Within a couple HOURS I'd heard from them, much better than the couple weeks it took for GRRR to NOT respond. Shaking my head. We applied for a labradoodle in Oregon, but he'd just been adopted. (Again, immediate response, at least within a day.) Applied for a standard schnoodle in Missouri but they would only let us take him if we drove 20 hours to St. Louis to get him, no airplanes allowed. Applied for a standard poodle in Washington state, but he'd been adopted barely too. Applied for a standard poodle in Oklahoma but she was sick with a cold or the flu and couldn't be adopted just then. Just our luck! This was all this weekend while my mom was here visiting, most of the applications submitted Thursday, hearing from all the shelters by Friday! This is when I finally gave up on Cooper - if I could hear back from no less than seven (7) shelters in two days, but couldn't hear back from the one in approx three weeks, it wasn't going to happen. :( But then........

Thursday, I did another quick search on petfinder.com to see if any new poodles or mixes had been added, so as to hopefully be the first applicant if one had been added. I entered "standard poodle" in the query, and the first dog that came up was a Giant Schnoodle (I laugh every time I say that, try it, just say it out loud as you read this!), a mix of a Giant Schnauzer and a Standard Poodle. He is so cute! I emailed and called the shelter fifteen minutes later, and got a response that night asking me to call again for an interview. Friday night, I called and spoke with the shelter, with a nice woman who loved to talk about Jean Luc! In the call, she told me more than I told her, and she was supposed to be interviewing me, grin. It was awesome, I learned that he loves to chew on his pink slipper that squeaks, he's still a puppy (1 1/2 years old) so sometimes just gallops around the house with his ball, loves to play, is a big couch potato sometimes too, and so on. After about an hour, we'd been approved for the dog, and we are just so excited!

Jean Luc is in Orland, CA, about two hours north of Sacramento. So, we did some number crunching, and figured out it would be cheaper to drive than fly, since tickets to Sacramento and San Francisco are pretty pricey relatively speaking (about $250 - $300 a person, plus we would have to buy a crate for him immediately, and not all the airlines allow dogs. If they do, it's $100 or more for him! To ride in the cargo hold!!! So, Brad decided to drive out, I wouldn't go because I had to work at the Mustang restaurant Saturday, and Summit County Friday. :( Then, I went to work at the restaurant, was telling my boss about our dog, and he asked "Your boyfriend is going out to pick him up by himself? Why aren't you going?" To which I responded "I have to work here Saturday." To which he stroked his chin and said "Ask Bill (the owner) if he can go with 5 servers Saturday and maybe we can get you the day off." Grin, Bill made my day 5 minutes later when he cut me Saturday!

Sigh, long story. Sorry! Anyway, I am going to trade my Friday at Summit County (we work 5 days one week, 4 days the next, and this week is my 5 day week) for next Friday so I can go on this trip.....spend some time with my sister Katrina in Santa Rosa (north of San Francisco) and see my nieces! Then go pick up our dog Saturday, and drive back! Yippee!


Jean Luc from the front, look at those feet! That's what made Brad fall for him, the fact that he's got snowshoes for feet! He'll be great in the snow. love skiing with us. Grin.


Isn't that a cute face? He's got the poodle hair, so won't shed, and I'll have to brush him all the time.


Here he is from the back, still has his tail! I don't like it when dogs are cropped and / or docked. It looks like a wire rope. Grin.