A New Addition?

We've been weighing the pros and cons of getting a puppy or young dog for a while now. Today we started out at the animal shelter, which I have to say, was actually quite stressful once we were there. The tiny room was full of very large pit bulls and they were barking so loudly and jumping at the cage walls like they wanted to eat me. The woman reassured us that they were all very nice, but they just get worked up. Either way, we couldn't stay in the room for more than 30 seconds before leaving. Way too intense!

After that, we went to an adoption event at Petco because I found the cutest puppy on Petfinder. He was equally cute in person!! Petco was also really loud because some of the dogs did not stop barking the enter time. There were probably 15-20 dogs at the event. It was good to see which dogs barked the whole time and which ones were nice and calm. We applied to adopt Ralphie, the dog that I had found online. Lots of people had the same idea though, and they said there were already 10-15 applications for him. We had to fill out a two page application, talk briefly with one of the shelter workers and then she told us if our application was selected, we would have to do a home visit. We will see what happens.

Here's a picture of the cute little guy as posted on Petfinder: