Hi everyone, I guess its time to give an update.
We have been Skyping with the new puppy every couple days and checking in on her. She's been doing great. We think we might name her Molly Boo (after Malibu) or Sugar, but we want to see her personality first and what fits her best. I've been talking with a friend in the military there and he is going to take her to the vet for us in two weeks. We decided to have her stay there longer to make sure that all of her vet checks go ok. We got the address to her location and now I'm searching for vets nearby.
We weren't able to find a puppy nanny and me traveling to Korea still seems to be a sore topic. Luckily the friend we have taking her to the vet is moving to Ohio this summer to get his PhD and he volunteered to fly with her if we paid for his flight to the states. It kind of works out for both of us because he will get to go look at housing before his actual move. We also have a mutual friend whose girlfriend is stationed there and she volunteered to fly with Molly to LAX if we paid for her flight here, and that might be cheaper for us.
I did end up finding a boy we may buy. He's from a breeder I contacted a while back who didn't have any pups available at the time but she emailed a few days ago saying she had a boy that was born. She sent photos and he's only two weeks old, so we will be waiting about four months or so before we can pick him up. We asked the breeder if we can fly out in the next two weeks to meet with her and the pup and we're waiting for a response. I won't name the breeder or their location on here, but I found her through this forum and she had positive things written about her from members who have met her so she's on the top of my list for our pup. Her pup is about $4,500 so he's just slightly under what we paid for Molly Boo.
We are set up for Molly's arrival but I'm having some difficulty choosing a bed for her. I originally wanted to build her a little tee-pee with a round bed inside but I'm not sure if little dogs like that sort of thing and if it would be warm enough. I built one for my aunt's cats and they never leave it, but cat's love anything they can hide in so that doesn't tell me much. I found a snuggle wrap on Etsy that looks comfy, and I found a bed in TJMaxx for only $10 that seems pretty similar. Do you think this kind of bed would be a good idea? It looks like a bed with a blanket on top which seems really cozy to me, but I don't know if little dogs would bother trying to snuggle inside of it. My last dog was a s**tzu-poodle and he just liked the plain old little dog beds with no top and my german shepherd used to steal it and try to squeeze into a ball on top of it. Thoughts? |