Meet Shadow and Tiger. I’ll let you figure out which is which. We were only planning on looking around (famous last words)… But we found the whole process of adoption or rescue to be quite daunting when we looked into it… Fill out an application, wait several days for an approval or rejection, and that’s just to SEE a puppy you might be interested in. Then the agency has to investigate and see if you’re the right fit for the adoption, there could be several applicants for a single dog, etc., etc.,  It’s crazy. So, with this in mind, we were driving down 30th avenue the other day and saw a hand-painted sign that said “Chihuahua Puppies” along with a phone number. Clearly (and literally) this was a sign.

Again, being aware of the whole process of adoption, this looked to be much easier. But there just HAD to be a catch. Sandy called and got some details. The family had a litter of 4 puppies and their mother, and we’re selling the puppies. One was already sold, a female.  This seemed like a very nice family with several young children who just love and adore Chihuahuas.

There was one that was mostly black who looks a lot like Socks did as a puppy, and the others were mostly brown with black stripes (kind of like a tiger). So two males and two females. We couldn’t wait to take a look, so we arranged a visit the same day. They were such a great family (the dogs AND the people), and thinking of breaking them up was a bid sad in itself. Plus, Kevin liked the tiger-striped one best but I liked the black one more. So I decided maybe it wouldn’t be so hard on the puppies if we took both of the males with us.  Sandy and I discussed this, mulling over whether just one dog would be very lonely, especially when we can’t always be there at home with him all the time, or if it would be better to have two so they have each other to play with and learn from. 

We knew this didn’t work out so well when we had Peanut and Socks, but that situation was a lot different than this one–Peanut and Socks weren’t littermates, they had a big age difference, and Socks was neutered while Peanut wasn’t.  So, ruling that out, everything just seemed so right, the puppies looked so healthy and happy, and we didn’t want to take the chance of losing this opportunity by someone else taking them before we made a decision, so here we go.

Our new toddlers are getting used to their new home now. We’re looking forward to a million new experiences and double the fun.