Our New Addition...(sigh)

That's right, we have accepted another dog into our family (and let's say it was done somewhat reluctantly).

Here is the story: Last Tuesday this sweet little girl showed up in our neighborhood for the first time. It is a common occurrence to have random dogs visit us because some people in our area do not feel it necessary to fence their dogs. She had a collar on but no tags. The next morning she was right on our front porch waiting for us. She even brought us the neighbors news paper.

Dave was leaving for work early that morning so that he could return home mid afternoon to mow the lawn before our trip to Spokane (details to come). I had just gotten out of the shower and while still in my bathrobe, I went to peak outside at her. Dave was attempting to back out of the garage, but the dog was very interested in him and wouldn't move from behind his truck, so I called her to the front door. He made it about half way down the driveway when she began to jump up on our wood door. Not wanting the door to get scratched, I went inside figuring that Dave was far enough down the driveway that she wouldn't be a problem.

Then about a minute later I heard these horrible yelping sounds and ran outside to figure out what was going on. Dave had pulled back into the driveway and stepped out of his car. With somewhat of a pale face and shaky voice he said, "She just ran under my truck".

The dog had limped away into the bushes of our neighbors house. We had to coax her out to get a look at the damage. My initial thought was not good...I thought for sure her whole back end was crushed as her legs were just dangling there and bleeding. She had apparently followed Dave down the driveway. As he turned the corner down our street he didn't see her in his mirror anymore and figured she had stopped so he began to speed up. Just at that moment, she ran under the back of his truck tire.

We couldn't call animal control because we knew they would just euthanize her. So Dave took her into the vet who suggested that we try and find the owner before he do any extensive treatment. That evening after work we went from neighborhood to neighborhood and house to house looking for her owner only to come up empty handed. No one had ever seen the dog before and many shared stories of how people come and drop off dogs in our area all the time.

So $400 later, a small hip fracture, and with much reluctance, we are now the owners of a third dog (another sigh)....that is, unless you want to take her-haha! Now we have the task of naming this little girl. She is about 6 months old and looks like some sort of lab and basset hound mix (don't ask me how that worked out). Please vote in the poll (right hand column) or give us some suggestions for her name...