Double Trouble

Oh my goodness we have puppies (Yes, more than one).  They are oh so very very cute. 

It has been 15 years since I have had a puppy and it is hard to remember how much time and energy they need.  But hopefully we will be able to put in the time (and energy) now, so they can turn out to be as good as our sweet boy Jake.  So…. what the heck were we thinking and why did we do this?

Our Lab Rescue Dog, Max has been having a great deal of difficulty for the past 6-9 months.  He had storm anxiety which was becoming worse and worse.  This week we had an incident where he got into a panicked state and ended up climbing on my 82 year old father-in-law (AKA Grandpa Bob) twice while the rest of us were out of the house.  He caused some (minor) injury to his arm and that made the decision for us.  We knew that despite our efforts to improve his behavior, it wasn’t getting better.  We had tried medication, behavioral training, aroma therapy (yes I had dog phernomes wafting through the house).  Not only had none of this worked but his anxieties were becoming worse and he was having these panic attacks even when there was no storm.  We made the very difficult decision that we had to relinquish him back to Lab Rescue.  It was a very hard and the kids were heartbroken but we did not want to take the chance that Max would hurt (inadvertently) one of the monkeys and now we had a real injury that couldn’t be ignored.  So we returned him with love and lots of tears, and a letter and the hopes that they can find him a home where he will not hurt anyone when he becomes panicked.

After a mere day in the house with no dog the house did not seem bearable, so, we set up some appointments for yesterday morning, and off we went. 

Well, we went to 2 places and we got two dogs, one from each place and cancelled our third appointment as we simply could not afford (or manage) a third.  They look like brothers but are actually 2 weeks apart.  We wanted brothers but they each had a sibling that looked different than they do and we liked their look so….

Anyway, the busy house just got busier and as for Grandpa Bob, he likes the new guys as well.