Jake.

-Meet JAKE-

(our new one year old, terrier mix)

 We have been talking about getting a dog for a few months now. Occasionally we have looked around, but never found one that we really loved. That was until this week. We had gone to the shelter last week but only had a few minutes to look around before they closed, and there were a TON of dogs there. So on a random day off this week I decided to just go look, not really expecting to find anything but checking just in case. The first section of dogs had two that I knew Jeff would just love. The first one was a beagle, he was older and had been trained, totally ideal. Then there was "Mango" this little guy that looked like he could be a little monster but adorable at the same time. I took the Beagle out for a walk and to play first, he was HORRIBLE! barked at anything that moved, peed on everything he saw, and didn't even want to play. So not in love. Then I took out "Mango", worried about how it might go after the other dog. I LOVED HIM! Called Jeff and said, "This dog is such a lover! He loves everyone! He is perfect!" I took the dog back to his cage and picked Jeff up to come meet the dog. He loved him too, right away! We just knew he was the one.

 We picked "Mango" up the next day and the first thing we did was change his name to something normal! Jake just fit him so well so that's what we stuck with. The first night with him was SUPER ROUGH, and had us thinking, "OMG what have we done!?" But the poor guy had a crazy day and was just wound up. Right when we picked him up from the shelter we drove to pick up Rikelle from Warped Tour, and then drove for a couple hours before we got to take him home. So he was groggy from his surgery still and had this big plastic cone on his head, and was so happy to be with us, he COULD NOT SLEEP!

 All night he wanted to play and when we wouldn't play he would try whine or whack his cone into the bed, it was horrible. Because of the cone he doesn't fit in his kennel so for the next day while we were at work we put a gate up in the kitchen. He did good staying in there for the morning, we were super impressed! Then a couple hours later when we got home we found out he can jump higher than the gate, so he let himself out of the kitchen a was roaming all over the house all day. We were so happy that we couldn't even be mad that he got out, because there were no messes anywhere! He has turned into a dream dog. He still loves everyone, dogs or people, doesn't bark and is trained. We took him to his first vet visit today and he is happy & healthy, we couldn't be happier! Until we get this stupid cone off his head and can get him groomed, only a couple more days!!