UPDATE: My friend Teresa adopted the white puppy, and one of my co-workers is adopting the brown puppy. I'm so relieved that both dogs are going to good homes (and we didn't have to take that dreaded trip to the shelter)!
Someone dumped these sweet babies in my yard on Saturday.
Chelley and Triple were down for the weekend, and of course the first thing we did when they got here was go to Walmart.
(What? Isn't that what you do when your friends from out of town come to visit? Compare Walmarts?)
When we got back home, Triple noticed we had a couple of puppies in our shrubs out front and said, "Did you forget to tell us that you got two dogs?"
Yeah right. As both Triple and Chelley know well, I am not, as they say, a dog person. (They know this well because - long story short - Mark brought one home when they were visiting a couple years ago and pert near ruined his 30th birthday.)
But how could I resist those adorable little baby pups?
I can, don't you worry, but it is hard! I am upset, though. Who dumps two baby puppies when there are these things called shelters that exist solely for the purpose of taking in unwanted animals?!
At first it didn't even dawn on me that they'd been dumped. They had leashes on, so I assumed they'd escaped their home and some loving owner was franically searching for them. But Triple pointed out that they don't have tags, and the likely explanation is that someone just decided they didn't want them.
And apparently, our house looked like as good a place as any to leave them.
Actually, it is a pretty good spot. All of our neighbors already have dogs - we're a real doggy neighborhood. Dogs bark so often around here that I almost don't even hear them anymore.
Almost.
Tomorrow morning, Mark will take the puppies to the shelter. They're super cute, friendly and young enough that I'm sure they'll be adopted into good homes (or maybe even one home - they really love each other, these babies) quickly.
But still, even though I am not a dog person and I do not want a dog and we absolutely canNOT keep these puppies or get a dog of our own anytime soon...it just breaks my heart a little bit. How could someone look into those faces and just push them out of the car? I hope they at least slowed down. Jerks.
What about you? Are you a dog person? What kind of pets do you have?
