New User - Story and Picts
Hello. I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Renee. I live with my boyfriend on his family’s farm in New Jersey. We have about 30 cows, two goats, two indoor cats and a dog. I have been looking at this site for about a month now and I love it. I really like the dog pictures. They are all so cute. I have found the discussions helpful and posted to a few of them.
I guess I’ll start at the beginning. Kevin (my boyfriend) and I were given a beagle/Basset hound mix. We named her Keystone, she was our first dog. We were so much in love with her. She was about 5 months old when she died. my mom and I were walking her at our local park when we were attacked by two dogs. My mom and I rushed her to the emergency vet hospital where she died later that day. The vet said her chest cavity was crushed in the fight. They said they put her in an oxygen room and the vet was holding her when she took her last breath. She was just a baby, we were so devastated. It took a long time for the wounds in out heart to heal.
About two years later, we decided we were ready to try this dog thing again. I knew this time I wanted a rescue dog. After a few months of looking on Petfinder.org, I came across a picture of a pointer mix puppy. I fell in love. Kevin and I made the three hour drive to upstate New York. They brought us into a room and brought in a little black and white puppy. She looked like one of our cows. We fell in love and brought her home that day. We decided to call her Bella because she was so beautiful. Now, two years later she has made herself at home. We took her through 3 levels of obedience classes and a beginning agility class. She has the rule of the farm and the house. She loves going for long walks across the fields. I am still so grateful to have such a wonderful baby. I hope you don't mind the pictures, I couldn't pick just one to post.
This was the picture posted on Petfinder.org.
http://www.blast.net/renmig/pets/a0009.jpg
This was taken the day after we brought her home.
http://www.blast.net/renmig/pets/a0010.jpg
This was taken at my mom's house the first week.
http://www.blast.net/renmig/pets/a0011.jpg
This is me and Bella at a local shelter's dog walk.
http://www.blast.net/renmig/pets/A0012.jpg
This is a picture of Bella at her first christmas.
http://www.blast.net/renmig/pets/A0013.jpg
Baby face.
http://www.blast.net/renmig/pets/A0015.jpg
This was taken last summer.
http://www.blast.net/renmig/pets/A0014.jpg
