I was at work the past two nights and sometime on monday night a little black puppy found it's way to my doorstep. He was rummaging through the bag of trash we had sitting on the front stairs looking for food.
TJ brought him in the house for a few hours and let him warm up because he was shivering and whimpering. Of course there's no tags on him or anything that identified him. Looks as though he was just dumped off in the neighborhood to fend for himself.
TJ picks me up from work that next morning and has the pup with him in the truck. He's all black and has a little white patch on the front of his chest. He has ears that remind me of a sheltie's ears... the kind that sort of stand up a little but then flip forward on the tips.
I think he's some kind of lab mix but doesn't have the coat of a lab at all. His coat is kinda thick and coarse and he's short haired. His paws are gigantic :yikes: I think he's gonna be a HUGE dog.
He seems real good natured and sweet but timid. He still has puppy breath, I'm guessing he's about 10 or 12 weeks old... not really sure. How old are they when they start to lose their puppy breath?
Part of me wants to keep him and give him a second chance at a good life with us because I know we'd take good care of him and love him. And then there's part of me that just wants to foster him until I can find him a permanent home. The thought of another puppy that needs to be trained just does not appeal to me. I still haven't got my 1 1/2 year old dog fully trained despite all the methods suggested for training her... I think she's just stubborn.
I'm torn... I just don't know what to do. I feel so bad for the puppy. He deserves a good life. I feel like I'd be just tossing him away hoping he'd be going to a good home... I just don't know what to do.
I guess I'm gonna sleep on it and think about it more when I get up. By then I'm sure TJ will have bonded even more with him. He's already calling him Boomer. I'm thinking we've just adopted a new puppy into our family I'm just aggrivated with the owner who just dumped him out in the cold... the poor baby... helpless and lost. Some people just suck!
TJ brought him in the house for a few hours and let him warm up because he was shivering and whimpering. Of course there's no tags on him or anything that identified him. Looks as though he was just dumped off in the neighborhood to fend for himself.
TJ picks me up from work that next morning and has the pup with him in the truck. He's all black and has a little white patch on the front of his chest. He has ears that remind me of a sheltie's ears... the kind that sort of stand up a little but then flip forward on the tips.
I think he's some kind of lab mix but doesn't have the coat of a lab at all. His coat is kinda thick and coarse and he's short haired. His paws are gigantic :yikes: I think he's gonna be a HUGE dog.
He seems real good natured and sweet but timid. He still has puppy breath, I'm guessing he's about 10 or 12 weeks old... not really sure. How old are they when they start to lose their puppy breath?
Part of me wants to keep him and give him a second chance at a good life with us because I know we'd take good care of him and love him. And then there's part of me that just wants to foster him until I can find him a permanent home. The thought of another puppy that needs to be trained just does not appeal to me. I still haven't got my 1 1/2 year old dog fully trained despite all the methods suggested for training her... I think she's just stubborn.
I'm torn... I just don't know what to do. I feel so bad for the puppy. He deserves a good life. I feel like I'd be just tossing him away hoping he'd be going to a good home... I just don't know what to do.
I guess I'm gonna sleep on it and think about it more when I get up. By then I'm sure TJ will have bonded even more with him. He's already calling him Boomer. I'm thinking we've just adopted a new puppy into our family I'm just aggrivated with the owner who just dumped him out in the cold... the poor baby... helpless and lost. Some people just suck!