Our new doggy-Molly Girl!!!

On August 14th, Joey and I woke up and had ourselves an ordinary Saturday morning. We drank coffee, played sequence, and talked about what we were going to do that day. One of the things we needed to do was to take Duke to the vet for a check up on his sprained tail and get a shot. Dukes vet is at Petsmart and that Saturday the 2nd Chance Humane Society just happened to be there with adoptable dogs.

While we were waiting to see the doctor, Joey had to go to the bathroom and when he came back he was like you have to go look at a lab back there. So of course I did and we both got all excited and decided as soon as we were finished with the vet we would go back together and look.

When we went back to look, Joey had never seen the shiny black lab that I had my eye on. So we looked at the other lab he saw originally, but something kept bringing us back to the black lab they had named Lindey. So we asked if we could walk around with her and see how her and Duke got a long. Well we ended up spending 2.5 hours walking around with both dogs discussing what we should do. At one point we gave her back and said we needed more time to think about it, but for some reason unknown we could not leave the store or stop staring at her. In the end she won our hearts over and we went home that day with another dog.

We decided to change her name to Molly, since Lindey was a name that was just given to her when she was brought to the humane society and she did not respond to it at all. They said she was brought in by someone who found her on the side of the road and thought she was about 9-10 months old. Well, that night we found out she was a little younger than that because while we were watching the two dogs play we saw that Duke had blood on him. Once we realized he was fine and that the blood had come from Molly's mouth because she was still losing teeth, we realized that there was no way she could be older than about 6 months old! The vet agreed as well that she was about that age.

Molly is a completely different dog than Duke. One word to describe her would be "CRAZY". She is just a bundle of energy and we found ourselves comparing her to Duke constantly. They are just completely different dogs. Duke is totally a Daddy and Momma's dog, he likes to be with us, wants to please us, gets excited when he gets to go places with us, he is just such a good dog. Where Molly is completely opposite. Molly is a free soul, she likes to wander around, she is super stubborn, when she is up she is full of energy and can't sit still, and nothing really seems to phase her.

We found ourselves getting stressed out with her because she was so different. And it wasn't until someone finally said to us, "you know the dogs are going to be just like your kids will be, different from each other. Did you really expect to get another Duke?"

When we stopped and thought about that question we realized that, yeah we did expect to get another Duke. And then we realized how ridiculous we were for thinking that. Once we realized that and started to accept Molly for who Molly is, our stress level has gone down and we have begun to enjoy her much more. And realized she is just as great of a dog as Duke just in a different way!

Having Molly now for over 1.5 months, she has completely stolen not only our hearts but Duke's as well as they have become best friends. I honestly can't imagine life without Molly in it! She is our new addition!

But to all those out there wondering when we are going to stop with the dogs and have real kids.

(Mom this question is for you)

I did tell Joey that we can't get anymore dogs until we move to a bigger house with a bigger yard and mostly because I want a baby now!! So no more 4 legged friends for what I hope is a long while as we have our hands full with the two we have. Hopefully in the near future I will be blogging about a new addition that doesn't have four legs!!