These stories are all so sweet and loving. Mine isn't really in the same ballpark, but if you knew my husband - this qualifies.
Three years ago, my cat had to be put down after getting really sick. We had her for 12 years (she was a stray when I took her in). This was two weeks after being asked to leave a job (first time ever, VERY long story). I started talking immediately about getting another pet, but we also have an Eskimo spitz and at the time my daughter was still living here with her Ragdoll cat. We have white hair flying everywhere - all the time!!!
Anyhow, I agreed to wait until my daughter moved out with her cat (to whom I became very attached). I had lots of time during those two years to decide what I really wanted. I thought it was going to be another cat, but after much soul searching and because I'm home much of the time now, I decided I wanted a "lap" animal on my terms. Since I've never known a cat to cooperate, I started looking at very small breed dogs. I just love the Yorkie coloring, that they look like puppies always, that they don't shed, etc. So that is where my decision rested. I began to look for breeders and a price that I could afford. I was going to get a Yorktese from a breeder in Ohio and had a deposit on a puppy due to be born in a few months. I was going with the Yorktese cause hubby didn't want something so tiny or the $ of an all Yorkie. The pups were born premature and all died. I got my deposit back because I didn't want to wait another year to get a pup. I told my hubby that I really wanted a Yorkie and I wanted a tinier one and as this pup was going to be with me for a looooong time (God willing), I wanted what I wanted.
He actually began to search and found a few breeders. I fell in love with a picture and although several months earlier than planned, got Sissy. Well, HE PAID FOR HER as a Valentine's Gift, even though she came in November.
So not necessarily the most romantic story, but it worked for me (and NO, he doesn't spend anywhere near that amount for any occasion)!!
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