You’ve got a friend in me.

Chewbacca has been an only dog for a while and Mr.B has been hounding me to get a puppy forever. My response was always the same “no puppy until we have a baby”. After 3 years of the same excuse I’m sure he’s been sick of hearing it. On top of that we think Chewbacca has separation anxiety. We can’t leave him alone in the house when we leave because he will either pee some where or try to dig himself out tearing up the carpet in the process. One time he even chewed through a door to get out. So I really do think that if he had a friend to keep him company he would calm down some, as we didn’t have this problem when we still had Phoenix (she got out of the yard and never came back).

So on Friday I gave in. When Mr.B got home from work I said “maybe Bacca could use a friend” and that’s all it took. We were off to the Humane Society to look at puppies. They had a few puppies that we thought were cute so we went to ask about them. Apparently puppies at the Humane Society are $200. A tad steep if you ask me. But we decided to fill out an application anyways. I couldn’t believe how indebt this application was, we even had to list references and our work schedule. Well Bacca isn’t fixed, which we didn’t think would be a problem since the girl pup was, but that made us ineligible to get a puppy from there. So we left with out a friend for Bacca.

We went home and I started looking on Craigslist to see what I could find. There were tons of puppies listed but none that really stood out to us. We finally found the cutest Husky with blue eyes but they wanted $300 for her. So we passed.

On Sunday I found an ad for a boy/girl Lab mix so we called them and left a message. But they never called back. On Monday I decided to look again and saw the ad for just the girl lab and emailed them. They emailed back and said we could come get her that night if we wanted. So when Mr.B got out of work he went and checked her out. He fell in love with her and decided she was our new baby.

So without further ado meet Mara:

She looks a little straggly here because she had just had a bath and we went outside where it was very humid. They said she is 8 weeks old which would put her birthday right around the first week of June, which I think is cool since my bday is June 2nd and Mr.B’s is June 4th. Guess she was meant to be part of our family. I just hope she doesn’t have the Gemini attitude to go with it.

I’m not sure Chewbacca is happy about her but I’m hoping he will get used to her. He has finally been playing with her some so I think that’s a good sign. She is really small, I mean really small. We got Chewbacca when he was 6 weeks old and I think he was 3x this size. So hopefully when she gets bigger he will enjoy playing with her. But right now she fits in his mouth, lol. Here are a couple shots I took this afternoon of them playing, you can really see the difference in their size.