Day 2305 Barking mad.

5th December 2023

Well we might have done something that would change our lives.

Kelli had found two free pieces of furniture but we had to travel to Allandale to collect them.

At least it was in a different place to the usual area of free stuff, Hudsonville.

It took just over half an hour to get there, the house was large and impressive, within an estate of equally impressive buildings.

The pieces were outside a barn a small distance away from the main house.

The furniture always looks smaller than you imagine, and as we wanted both, it was a puzzle trying to get them both to fit.

We had to bungee the back door, but everything was on board.

The drive back was uneventful, we offloaded the pieces in Kelli’s mum’s garage then headed home for some lunch.

This I stress was not the life changing event.

The next thing on our list was a visit to the Harbour humane society. We missed out on one foster, but we wanted to check out some others. This time we took our two with us, so there were quite a few whines from them as we traveled north towards Grand Haven.

Kelli was excited to meet another potential dog that we had seen the last time.

Amelia, yes that was her name, had a difficult life having a few failed adoptions behind her, and she was favourite.

Of course there were many in the kennels that would melt your heart, including a boxer mix that looked so cute. That was my choice as Boxers are my favourite, but we found out that she didn’t mix well with other dogs, and had even attacked a cow. We couldn’t imagine how something so small could tackle such a large animal.

So we chose Amelia, and introduced her to Dhama and Phoebe. There was a bit of growling mainly from Dhama the alpha, but on the whole the body language was positive, so we decided to foster her.

The society provided the cage, bedding and food and we would keep her until someone came along to adopt her.

The drive back home was particularly quiet, Amelia was in her cage in the back with our two on the rear seats.

Once we got back the fun started.

Amelia was hyper, Dhama almost choked on her own growls and Phoebe was standing her ground.

It was understandable that the new girl was in an unfamiliar environment, and even we were uneasy with the atmosphere. There were two “accidents” but once in her cage she settled down and whilst I was working in the same room she was okay.

The thought was how tomorrow might go, had we made a mistake? That was a question that would be asked at a different time.