The Search for a Pound Puppy

Now that Easter is behind us,  the search for a dog for Krissie has gone up a level.

For the last few months we have put the word out that we are looking for a pet dog - hoping that someone might know of anyone who can't look after their pet anymore,  maybe moving or going into a nursing home etc.  But, no pets came to us.  Then with Easter approaching and a trip to the east coast planned,  we stopped looking in March.

Once home from the east coast we had three weeks to find a dog before we leave for WA.    So I started ringing the RSPCA's in Launceston and Devonport and the Deloraine Dogs Home.

Deloraine didn't have anything other than a 3 month old puppy.   Devonport had an 8 yr old Jack Russell but they had not done a behaviour test on him yet.   Launceston said they had a little guy called Maxi who was 3 yrs old.
A couple of days later they put a photo of Maxi on the adopt.a.pet website.  He looked a nice little fella.

On the Saturday Krissie and I went to visit him. When we got there someone was out walking him.  We waited for him to come back and when he did, it was raining,  so we tried to get to know him inside and there were lots of other people around, Maxi was very shy and would only look at the lady who had taken him for a walk.   I wish they could have left us alone with him for a while.

Anyway, Krissie was not too sure.  So the next tuesday we went back to see him again.  This time we took him for some walks and he was lovely,  Krissie even had him 'sitting' and 'dancing' on command.  He also seemed very affectionate too.
We decided we would like to adopt him and as he still had some vets visits to go thru, we said we would come back on Saturday to pick him up.

Well, he has totally blended in with Krissie so completely.  He is the most perfect little pet you could ever wish to have.   He is gentle, quiet, affectionate, clean and well behaved.  He is totally awesome.   He sleeps inside with Krissie,  and he has got her out of bed early EVERY SINGLE MORNING and they go for walks,  she is going to get so fit!!   

He is so beautiful, Krissie says she can't imagine her life without him now.