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Annabelle was planned. For about a year after my family's two other dogs died, Emma a black lab x husky and Sammy a cairn terrier, we decided life without dogs was unbearable. We looked for the perfect dog and decided on a pug. It was between a pug or a Westie. So we looked everywhere for a really good and safe looking pug breeder, and we finally found around Ventura, California.
Marta was planned, I really wanted a dog and my mom paid for half of her as an early 20th birthday gift. She is by far the best gift I have ever gotten! I really can't see myself without her.
Adele was planned too. Eric didn't wasn't crazy about a second dog, but we saw Adele on petfinder and fell in love! Hehee now she is Eric's "baby."
Vallis wasn't planned, of course we were fostering him and ended up adopting. The funny thing is though, we only fostered because we were buying some things at a local pet store that does rescues, and the owner asked what kind of dogs we had, and hearing we had a corgi, she said, "We're getting a corgi this weekend," so we filled out an app. for fostering, and got him on Sat, April 1st, and he's been here ever since!
Both of my dogs were planned. I went to the shelter and picked them out. Both times I went looking for a shepherd/collie mix, both times I came back without! :rolleyes: But my dogs are fine just the way they are. :)
Gonzo was not necessarily planned. We were planning on getting a GSD puppy from an awesome working breeder in Chico. I said I only wanted money for my B-day to pay for the puppy. We were waiting a few months for the pups to be old enough, and 2 weeks before we were supposed to pick out our pup, I heard about Gonzo. A friend from BC rescue heard we were getting a puppy, and she told us about a BC puppy that a rancher was dumping - BCRNC had rescued adults/pups from these people before. We just went to "look" and see if anyone we know might take him in, and we went home with him.
Fozzie was planned... in that we wanted another dog. Of course, we had a Cardigan Welsh Corgi puppy reserved from a breeder in Washington. Our puppy was reserved by the stud owner, and a few days after learning we had lost her, we found out about Fozzie, from a rescue in Redding. I'm very glad I got Fozzie instead of a Cardi, we're already very attached to him!
I PLANNED GETTING MY CHIHUAHUA "CHICA"!!!I RESEARCHED CHIHUAHUA'S/ NAMED HER BEFORE I GOT HER.I BOUGHT TOYS, BOWLS, WEE WEE PADS, doggie bed, and put gates up to block the kitchen entrances so I could keep the puppy in one area while I was gone from the house.This is Chica at 11 weeks old.
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I even took a week off from work to take care of my puppy!It's great having my "Chica"This is her now!
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Sassy was planned. We had been looking for a maltese for years.
Total impulse! The day I got her was the day I went out and bought everything for her, that's how unplanned she was. I am definatly a planner, so it was a bit of a shock I think, but I'm glad I did it!
Sadie was definately the most planned of our three. We heard about her and her littermates before our wedding. We both knew we wanted to get a dog after we got married, so after much discussion we went to visit ~ 2 weeks after our wedding. She was only 6 weeks old at that time, so we went home without her knowing 2 weeks later we would bring ohome our baby girl.
Cincy was semi-planned. We had been talking about getting Sadie a playmate, and one Saturday morning my mom called and asked if we wanted to see some lab mix puppies. We talked a bit, finally set up an appointment for the next day. We planned on leaving Cincy there 2 more weeks (she was only about 5 1/2 weeks at that time), but the puppies were left alone outide in a chicken coop, while mom was inside with the family. We ended up bring her home that day.
Spot was not planned. I had been playing around with the idea of getting a third dog, and was hoping for a male dal. Ralph wans't not there yet, and not sure he wanted three. When we heard about Spot, we had little time to talk . It was already 10 am, and if someone didn't claim him by 6 pm that night, he would be PTS. We said we would rescue him, and get him into a no-kill group here in Toledo. It was obvious very quickly however that he and the girls had other plans. He was here to stay!!
Boo boo was planned, our dog Allie (boo boo's older sister) was shot on accident by my older brother (he was target practicing and the bullet hit a tree then hit her) I was only about a year old, so I dont know the WHOLE story. But then my family heard that the same people they had got Alie from, had another litter, so they got Boo boo.
Maggie was a COMPLETE impulse. A lady at my school's dog Molly had a litter of puppies, and she brought them to school one day, so some of the people who had planned on getting one, could pick out the ones they wanted. She had bought something for Molly out of a magazine, and I went to go give it to her (in her office at school) and I saw the puppies there grunting and whinning on the floor and I HAD to have one. It turned out that my mom came to pick me up from school that day to bring me to a doctor's appt. so she looked at the puppy I had picked out (I had originally picked out a male, but my mom wouldn't let us get another male, beings Boo boo was territorial) so my sister brought Maggie home...ON THE BUS!! lol.
Autumn was sort of an in between. My dad is a landlord, and the people that we renting one of his houses had a dog, and we told them that they couldn't have one, so then the dog disappeared for about 2 weeks, and they said that they had DROPPED IT OFF! Then about 2 weeks later, it was back in their yard tied up. Me and my dad went over there, and told them that they could either get rid of the dog asap, and if they didn't have another home for it that we would take her and bring her to the Humane Society, OR find her a DIFFERENT home. Well, she ended up getting loose in there neighborhood, and couldn't "find" her. But me and my dad found her! And we didn't give her back either, we took her right home. The plan was to keep her for a week, nad if they found out we had her, that we would give her back, but after a week she was going straight to the HS, but she never did leave!! :p
Well, I have had a lot of dogs so I won't inflict you all with a barrage of tales (tails? :D)! But, our new Chihuahua puppy is being difficulty planned.
All of my dogs are planned. No matter what we will have some kindof "sport the dogs will do" So we try to plan on what breeds will be perfect for what we want them to do. I know I will probally make a mistake in the future and see a dog in a shelter and it will be impulse!!
Rupert was planned,we had gone to the dog shelter 7 or 8 times and we knew we were going to get him.
Max was an impulse ,we thought we were going to just go look at him but my family had to say yes,he is so sweet and his little brother Rupert luved him at first sight then he just fit in the family.
Very planned. In my family my parents are too strong to run on impulse.
Penny and Clover were planned we looked for months in rescues and shleters for them (Both were from oops litters in the end). Theodore (Chihuahua) was impulse bought. Elvis was planned, we knew about him 3-4 weeks before he was born.
Then Ms Tinny came along unexpectedly, and was only a foster.. well that lasted all of a day and we could not give her up (I did not try too hard to find her a home hehe, no one was ever good enough for her). If Tinny had not come aloog when she did i was going on a waiting list for a pup anyway ;).
I wouldn't say any of our dogs were on impulse, maybe not completely planned either though.
Reggie was a puppy from a litter my dad's co-worker's dog had. They had talked to us (my siblings and I, kids at the time) about getting one of the puppies but I don't think they ever actually said we were getting one. One day my dad took me for a ride in the car (he said we were going somewhere else but I don't remember where) and picked him up to take him home (he was the last pup in the litter and they hadn't been able to find him a home yet). It was my parents decision I don't think it was exactly an impulse.
With Nebo, I had been wanting a siberian husky my entire life and my parents finally said I could get one. We went to the wrong places looking for puppies (newspaper ads) and drove to a few different houses looking at husky puppies. They were all cute of course, but none of them seemed right. I wanted a black and white female, I wasn't even going to look at the 2 red males but decided to do it anyway. Obviously, I fell in love. :o I didn't bring him home that day though, I went home and thought about it, then went back to get him the next day. Best decision ever! :D So it was planned on getting a siberian husky, but maybe impulse on which one.
Sydney was my sisters dog, she bought her when she was a puppy. When my sister was pregnant with twins she was having a hard time so my mom offered to bring Sydney home for a while until she was doing better. Well she had the babies and after they acted like they didn't want her back, and we didn't want her to end up in a bad home...so she's still here. It was an impulse on my mom's part to bring her home in the first place, but we weren't intending to keep her...she's a sweetie though and we love her.