Little Bauer on his Way!

After a lot of contemplation (on my parents part), we decided to get a dog. We miss having one in the house, so went on a search to adopt a dog. On Sunday, we went to the Singapore SPCA and saw a dog that we fell in love with. She was a one year old husky (I know...a little weird), but there was already a family trying to get her. A volunteer there told us to put our name on the list just incase, so we did. Unfortunatly, on Wednesday, they called and said she had been adopted. We were intending to go back to the SPCA, as there were a few dogs we also liked. But before we went, I decided to see what other places you could adopt dogs in Singapore and I found a program called Action for Singapore Dogs (ASD). On Thursday we lookd on the website and us kids wrote down the names of our top 3 choices. (With this program you look at the dogs on the website and then call and arrange for a bonding session. This is because they do not have one central place, but the dogs are at foster homes, or where we went, they had the back block of a kennel). Mom called and a few minutes later they returned the phone call. Our first choice (a puppy named Yo Yo) was already adopted. Our second choice (a one year old shy dog named Sweetie) was still too afraid of humans. But our third choice, a 7 month old named Survivor (he was thrown to the ground and tied to a tree in the heat when he was young) was available. We arranged to meet at 10:30 on Friday.



To get to the place it took 30 minutes, and it was way out in the farm land. When we got there, we saw and met Survivor, but had some concerns. His eyes were cloudy and almost always shut. Although he was very sweet, we decided to look at the 4 puppies that were there. The pups had been born at a fish farm, but the owner had a lot of dogs and could not properly care for them. He was going to have the mother and puppies put to sleep, but someone took the mom and the puppies were sent the ASD. They are brown and plain, but very cute. One of them we ruled out becuase she apparently was the one who started all the fights, because she loves the attention. We ruled out another because she was very afraid and just sat under the chairs and tables and hid. She looked a lot like a smaller version of Navio in my opinion. The other two were the two boys. We liked them both, but could only have one. Troupy was the biggest one and had some black on his back and tail. He would jump on you or sit at your feet so you would pet him, but got a little squirmy when he was held. The other boy was Snoopy. He was very curious and played, but when you picked him up he cuddled right in and settled down. We chose Snoopy (to be renamed Bauer. He is going to a little bit smaller than Copper, and for those of you who knew my godparents dog, he will be about the size of Sadie. Right now he is 2 months old, and we are going to get him when we return from Bali, a week from Tuesday. I took pictures, but I don't think I have the cord that plugs into the computer, but if I find it I will post some. If not, we will take some pictures of him with Evan's camera when he comes to our house.

We are all really excited and can't wait for his arrival.

That's all for now. I miss everyone.
~Jane~