The great puppy wait is almost over! We go north this weekend to meet the puppies and pick out which little guy will be moving in with us. We won't get to bring him home yet, but he'll be here around December 10.
We've started stocking up on doggie stuff, with more yet to come. We bought pretty dark green bowls and we've got a start on the toy box. My goal is to have enough chew toys that the puppy never has to look far for a toy to chew on. "Hmm, no toy within six feet. This table leg will do! Yummy!" No thank you. Chew toys are my friends. Until they get all drooled on and slimy. Then they're Adam's friends.
Somehow, though, we've stalled on the two biggest items: crate and bed-roll. [In my head, that was a really hilarious play on the name of the store Crate and Barrell, which is where we registered when we got married, and I thought it would be funny to mention it in reference to dog stuff, which we thought about registering for via Amazon wishlist, you know, because registering + dog stuff + clever word play = Mel is a big fat dork.]
The great crate debate [dork dork dork] centered on plastic versus metal, and was settled mostly by the question: Are we ever actually going to put the dog on an airplane? In other words, do we really need a plastic crate that is air travel certified? Pretty much no. So, we're probably going to get the wire crate. Of course, then I start looking at what you can do with them, and I totally want the one that folds up and has two doors and cleans itself and teaches your dog how to knit while you're not home. Hope you all like dog hair scarves.
Then we come to the bed issue, which culminated in, "Ooh, look at this one. It's nice and firm. Look, it's made out of recycled fleece from clothing factories. Hey, and it's totally machine washable. Where's the...it's how much?!" And when two DIY-ers start saying that, you know what the next phrase is about to be: "We could make one for less than that!" So, stand by for the greatest dog bed that Adam and I have ever made, kids. It's gonna be *awesome*. Until it gets all drooled on and slimy.
2 comments:
yeah, sorry, that delete was me, wanted to edit the post and deleted it instead. me dork. you word dork, me dork dork. puppy not dork. puppy drool. cool.
yeeps. this is worse than the last one. why am i still awake? could it be due to the five+ cups of jasmine or earl grey tea i consumed during the day? why, yes. that would be it. BUGGER.
anyway, enough whining, puppy drool is totally cool and can't wait to see the puppy in his awesome homemade machine washable comfy fleece bed. dude.
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