We've got a new family Member!! Izzy joined our family yesterday! She's a beautiful Boxer puppy and I absolutely adore her! I'm so not a dog person. If you ask anyone that knows me well, they can tell you that me and dogs just don't mix. She was my brother's dog and he needed to find her a new home and was asking my mom to take her but she couldn't. I happened to be with my mom when he was trying to arrange it and I mentioned it was tempting. You see, we used to have a dog, actually my husband had a dog before we were married and once we were married we still had him. Eventually we had to let him go because he was so territorial he was biting me when he was under the bed and I would come into the bedroom. My husband is a truck driver and the dog was used to protecting him so I was like invading their space. There's a lot more to it but I won't get into it. Long story short, we surrendered the dog to the shelter. (He ended up in a good home and he's very happy, we've seen him tons of times!) Anyways, the point I'm getting at is that Bryan had it set in his mind that we wouldn't be getting a dog anytime soon, which is sad because he is a big time animal-lover-got-to-have-a-pet type of person, I'm not. But yesterday we went to Petco because he wanted to "look". I didn't want to come home with a stinky hamster, gerbil, noisy bird, or fish that die every couple of days so I kept saying no, but he didn't know I talked to my mom and arranged to be the one to take Izzy. So yesterday, my family was in shock when my brother showed up with our new dog. I think my hubby is still shocked. (He was upset for months after we had to let his other dog go). But she is so good! Very mellow. She loves to play but will snuggle too. She has to be trained still in some areas but she's very smart. I'm sure she'll get it. But at least she's housebroken!
