impulse or planned out

[Jessika]

Jamie was definitely impulse. I'd wanted another dog, but not in our small apartment. I was told of a red merle puppy that an old coworker of mine had that needed to be adopted out. I was not even going to mention her to HJ because I KNEW he would say no. But just for the heck of it, I did.... he did not even hesitate to say yes!! I picked her up the next day!!

Charlie was planned out, but not by me! Charlie was an early Christmas present for me one year. He had planned it all and talked it out with my parents beforehand, so it was definitely not an impulse decision!

[wolfsoul]

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!

[Cincy'sMom]

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!!

[Toby's my baby]

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!!

[Sevaede]

Well, I have had a lot of dogs so I won't inflict you all with a barrage of tales (tails? )! But, our new Chihuahua puppy is being difficulty planned.

[Flatcoatluver]

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!!

[WarahGirl1995]

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.

[Suki Wingy]

Very planned. In my family my parents are too strong to run on impulse.

[wolf_Q]

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. 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! 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.

[.sarah]

Mandy - Kind of a mixture of both. We didn't want another dog but Buttons was so depressed after losing Retread that we decided to get another dog. We weren't really planning much because it had only been two weeks since Retread died and we were all grieving. We looked through the humane society and other rescue groups and didn't find anyone we "clicked" with. We really wanted an adult dog because we weren't ready for a puppy, but when we visited the shelter a little white ball of fluff was barking at us!

Nova - Impulse, for the most part. I was wanting a rescue Golden but parents said no, "we're enjoying having just one dog". Buttons was a lot of work in his last year or so because he had so many health problems, and they just wanted a break. But after about 3 months I really started wanting another dog and I was looking through rescues to find a young male Golden Retriever. The one I wanted ended up getting adopted before my parents said a firm "yes", so I kept searching. One day my friend came into work to tell me her friend's Lab had a litter of puppies. I didn't think I could handle a Lab's energy level and that's why I originally chose a Golden. But I went to look anyway and took my camera. Mom couldn't pass up the puppy flopping and drooping in my arms in the photos so we brought home Nova a few days later

Luka - Impulse. We went to a humane society fundraiser and she was there, and we fell in love. She came home 3 days later. It would have been sooner had my dad been in a good mood sooner Needless to say she is now my dad's "favorite", and he freely admits that.

Buck - Planned but he came along sooner than we were thinking. We were going to get another dog this summer, either a Lab or a Dane (probably Lab but I was working on getting my parents to accept a Dane). Things kind of fell into place with him, though.

[pnance]

I'd have to say somewhat of an impulse.

We were living in a rental and only had my small terrier. My roomates brother called and said a friend of a friend couldn't keep Savannah so she was headed to the pound. My roomate and her husband had about a day to make the decision and get clearance from our landlords, but it's been worth it.

Nikka belonged to our neighbor, she'd been offered to us before, but when we brought her over on a trial she was way to interested in the cats (she has a high prey drive), so we decided it wouldn't work. A couple of months later her owner hit her with his car "by accident???" and was going to put her down. We took her in paid her medical bills and never offered her back.

We had no intention of getting another dog but....Bear also belonged to the same neighbor. He was taking off to the desert for the July 4th weekend with his other dog, Roxy and leaving Bear behind, so we offered to watch him. He was filthy, his coat matted and his skin black with fleas. We shaved him and cleaned him up, and when the owner came back he didn't ask for Bear back initially. About 2 months later he showed up on our doorstep wanting him back (2 days before he went into drug rehab). Within a month we had both of the dogs at our house. Needless to say when the neighbor got back he asked us to keep both dogs while he settled back in. We had Roxy for abuot 5 months before he came and took her back permantely (he'd take her on weekends sometimes), Bear he left, I'm fairly certain as "payment" for taking care of Roxy.

Hunter was somewhat of an impulse. I'd been thinking about getting a puppy, but hadn't really looked hard because I was still debating. I went into petsmart and there was this litter of rescued pups, I couldn't resist. The foster was there and approved me immediately so I was able to take him home that day.

[animal_rescue]

Maggie Mae- semi planned. My dad was doing a tree job for someone that was breeding dobermans. Maggie was sorta payment to my dad for the tree job. He gave him Maggie and money. Ah well Maggie's my joy and I'm super glad that we got her!

Marty-semi impulse. We were visiting my adopted sister's dad(she's also my cousin, so the guy was my uncle) and he wanted to get her something special so they started looking through the classified ads. They were looking for poodles but could only find dashchunds. So my aunt(Savannah's step mom) and my mom went to go look and brought back Marty.

Alex-semi planned. We recieved a few puppy mill poodles from a closing puppy mill in town(a total of 60 poodles and one man caring for them). Well a couple of weeks before we got them my mom was saying how she wanted a poodle and the next one that we come across we were going to keep. LOL she spoke to soon. We got this sweet female poodle and Alex to foster and my aunt had about 4 that she was fostering down the street. We kept Alex, who was by far the most scarred, to this day he hates strangers and especially men. He's super protective of me and loves to follow me around. I call him my little stalker.

Roxabella- impulse. I was wanting a pit bull puppy and was hoping that I could get one this summer. Well last summer, before school started, I went on a mini vacation with my aunt and uncle. Well my aunt was looking through the classifieds and found a min pin for sale. We went to go look and I got her right on the spot. Roxie has definitely been a challenge. It took her nearly 9 months to potty train and I honestly thought it would never happen. She's doing so much better now! I love her and she's my baby girl. She is a total sweetheart and very hyper. A good ambassador of the min pin breed if you ask me.

[Kfamr]

You'd have to ask my dad on this one.

When we got Simba I had been wanting a dog of my own forEVER. I constantly watched the neighborhood dogs, walked them, bathed them, fed them, etc. I think my parents had it planned.

Nala and Kiara, well I had no clue that we were ever going to come home with another dog.. let alone have 3 dogs. They were found on one of our usual humane society visits. Each time when filling out adoptions papers my dad said "Mom is going to kill me."


So, in my heart, all three of them were planned because I've always wanted many dogs. But, in reality.. they were more-so impulse because it wasn't something we really talked about.

[Pam]

One planned and one not.

I was in the early stages of looking for a dog when I found Bella. Hubby had said "no more dogs" after our last dog went to the Bridge as the pain when they die is so bad. I started e-mailing him pictures of standard poodles maybe a month before getting Bella to sort of "wear him down." The day I got her I went to the breeder's just to *look.* HA! Just try leaving a breeder without a puppy! Well of course she was in the front seat of the car on the way back home.

Over the years, I have always had two dogs at a time, and about two years after getting Bella I was starting to have my eye out for a second dog. I sort of felt that I wanted to adopt from a shelter the next time although was having no luck finding a poodle. One day I happened to be at the shelter with my daughter as she was turning in *proof of spaying* of her kitty so that she could get a small reimbursement back from the state. Just by chance we decided to walk through the kennel area. There was my Ripley - dirty, matted and frightened. I asked for the shelter employee to let me into his cage and I sat down on the floor of the kennel to see what he would do. Ripley very timidly walked over to me and sat in my lap. I fell in love on the spot right there on the floor. After a 9 day waiting period to see if anyone claimed him (he was a stray) he was mine.

[luvofallhorses]

Rocky was planned. When Buddy (RB) was going down hill, my parents decided on a black lab puppy so we wouldn't grieve so much.

Ginger wasn't planned.. my mom inherited her from her mother when she passed away from cancer in 2003.

Buster wasn't planned. I was looking at the 'free to good home' classifieds when I was home sick from school one day.. I was supposed to get my best friends' doxie, but he already had a family for him.

Jenny -- I think my parents planned her. They got her when I 'graduated' the 7th grade. She has been the best thing that has ever happened to me!