jesshartley

For a month or more now, we've been seriously considering adding another puppy to our family. We've been keeping an eye out because we really had a good idea what we wanted - a male, baby, shepherd mix. Basically, a little brother for Anubis.

The local shelters haven't had any puppies of late, and we really haven't had good luck with adopting teens, so we've just waited. Since we're out here in the boonies of Arizona, there's not a lot of shelters nearby and not a lot of animals moving through the shelters, but we were patient.

This morning, I saw a husky shepherd mix come up on Petfinder.com at the Ft. Huachuca Animal Control shelter, about 45 minutes away. They were only open from 10 to 2 today, and not on Sunday at all, so we headed over.

We found two adorable brothers... A friendly perky tan fellow that obviously looks husky shepherd, and then his chubby, slower little brother, who's black with white markings. The Valkyrie fell for the tan adventurous one right off... but the little black guy just looked so sad... and the shelter (bless its heart) was so icky and run down and...

Yeah, you see the end of the story coming already, don't you?

After a few calls to the Viking, and a two-for-the-price-of-one adoption fee offer from the shelter, we now have not one but two new family members. I don't know what the hell I was thinking, but... oh my gods they're adorable.

We're still looking for names. We'd prefer something related to one another, and "us" in nature... God names, historical figure names, city names, mythological creature names, etc... We're open to suggestions. I'm leaning towards Loki for the tan and Fenris for the black, but I'm getting shot down so far. (That's okay, we also shot down the Viking's suggestion of "Clatu" and "Verata". (Now, if they'd been triplets?...)

Anyway, welcome our new family members... The Puppies