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So last year on February 24th, Amber and I met a little beagle that needed a home. Being soft hearted, we agreed to make this little guy part of our family. The next day we found out that we were not going to be getting the beagle puppy. The family that was housing him couldn’t let him go, so we weren’t going to force them to give him up. I was sulking around the house for a little while after getting that phone call.

Around 11 am, Amber asked if I wanted to go down to the local dog shelter. She knew that I was pretty upset about not getting a new dog. At first I said I didn’t want to look for another dog, but then I yelled out “we’ll leave in 25 minutes. No guarantees.”

We went to the Connecticut SPCA in Monroe, CT and didn’t really see any dogs that we fell in love with. We were told there were smaller dogs available, but they were shy. In a similar story to how I adopted Matty, we went upstairs and saw a few crates with quiet dogs. One was a blond lab and she was calmly asleep, the other was some kinda brown and black dog that couldn’t have been over 20 lbs. I thought that we should see the blond one, because she was sleeping and quiet (that’s my rule about adopting dogs: they have to be quiet and calm in the shelter).

We introduced her to Matty before we agreed. They took one look at each other and didn’t really move much. She walked over and gave him a little kiss on his nose and we knew right then and there this was our dog. On our way home, we renamed her Leeloo Dallas.

This is a photo of her from the first few hours we had her. She was timid, scared out of her mind and thirsty.

She’s our little lady and I cherish the year that we’ve had so far.