Guess who followed me home this weeked???



I've been researching, studying, and absorbing as much information as I can for several months now...before making this commitment. And once my husband and the whole family were entirely on board, it was finally time to begin the search for just the right puppy for our family.

Just as I was beginning to despair of finding the right dog within the right time window (lots of different factors coming into play in our lives right now)...this past Thursday night, all of a sudden all the pieces of the puzzle fell into place at once.

There's no doubt in my mind that God was in control the whole time and had this very puppy picked out for us.

She's a red dobmerman (female...just in case someone didn't pick up the pronouns), AKC registered. Her dam and granddam are both Search & Rescue and Human Remains Recovery dogs.

She's nine weeks old. Was the only pup available in her litter...in fact, the entire litter was already spoken for and paid for as soon as they were born, including this little angel...but the woman who had put the deposit down on this one came into some financial issues and could not follow through...so she became available.

The breeder lives in the D/FW area, where all my family are, which made the trip (about a 300 mile drive each way) to go visit and see the puppy very joyful for all.

And there were many other little pieces of this puzzle falling into place that are of little interest to anyone outside our own family...suffice it to say that it was a perfect fit all the way around for many, many different reasons. And the cherry on the top of the sundae.....the breeder had used a "theme" to give all the puppies in the litter their temporary names until they went to permanent homes....the theme was Snakes!

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She doesn't have a permanent name yet. Her temporary name was Timber...which is really neat...but doesn't seem to fit. "Angel" is my first choice for her right now...it automatically leaps to my tongue every time I look at her and interact with her. But the rest of the family think its a sappy name. I'm open to suggestions from those who are clever at coming up with unique, meaningful names.