4 Ring Circus: And then we got a dog.

We've been thinking about a dog for a while now. About 5 years really. It was Christmas and Charlie was 2 and he was opening a small box that held Mac the Truck from Cars. I hear him whisper "please be a dog". That's when the conversation first started.

I needed a few more years to birth his sister, and then get them old enough to be able to use the bathroom on their own and dress themselves. So now that they can do all that we decided it was time to take on a new challenge.

Friends Brenda and Danielle (both dog lovers) were here for a weekend so we decided to drag them along to a pet fair in Idaho at a car dealership of all places. Several pet rescues from around the region were there with their dogs, probably about 20 in all.

We got to walk around and see if any of them spoke to us. I was drawn to the little dogs, Annie was drawn to the kitties, Charlie couldn't focus - there were just too many to choose from, Danielle found a basset hound with the same name as her boyfriend (Gunner), Brenda made friends with all of them, and Matt found Trapper.

We thought we should maybe go out to lunch and talk about Trapper before committing to adopting her. As we're trying to make a plan another couple comes up and starts asking Trapper's handler all these questions, they looked super interested in taking her home.

So I motion to Matt from across the room, giving him the now or never signal, he says now and I interrupt the nice couple and say 'stop asking questions, we saw her first'. That's basically how I remember it going down.

She jumped up on my lap on the way home. Freaky for the driver.

Then she jumped back to Brenda and Danielle.

Finally home.

Escaped from her kennel when we went out to dinner, chewed all sorts of important things. We're learning (how to pick stuff up and how to latch the kennel properly).