Gypsy Rose Lee

About a year and a half ago our family got a most wonderful addition.  As a graduation present my parents decided that I could get a dog.  Instead of supporting a puppy mill and paying an exorbitant (English 9 vocab word!) amount for a designer dog, we went looking around the nearby shelters.  After almost a week of searching, I found her at the SEAACA shelter in Downey CA.  She was not the prettiest of puppies, but there was something about her that I saw potential.  I mean, who couldn't love this face?

(This was the picture that they had of her on their website)

I'll be honest, at first I was not impressed and my mom was skeptic of the thing in the corner of her eye.  But, after spending some time with her, I knew that I wanted her.  Unfortunately the way that they operate is to hold the animals for a certain amount of time before you can adopt them.  If you come in and like an animal, you put your name in and they give you a number and a date to come back.  Number one has until 10am on that day to claim the dog.  If by 10am they are not there, it goes to number 2 or 3 and so forth.  Being number 2 I was very nervous and showed up so early that I had to sit there and wait for at least 45 min.  But, I lucked out and number one never showed up.  She was all mine!

That evening we picked her up and brought her home.  I was so excited that I had to take pictures, even though she was so out of it from her surgery.  She was so small!

This tiny little thing became an instant hit with me and my family.  Of course we took silly pictures of her and spoiled her rotten!

I named her Gypsy after a musical that I love, and it fits her very well!  Here she is in her pink bed with only a fraction of her toys.  A scraggly little thing only about three months old here.

She just has this way about her to make you feel happy, loved, needed, and playful all at the same time.  Whenever I come home, she is there to greet me with a ton of excitement!  There is just so much comfort coming from this dog and whenever I have a bad day, or am feeling blue, she cheers me up and gives me all of the hope that I need.  I cannot imagine my life without this dog and she has made the past year and a half incredibly wonderful.

I realize that she is just a dog, but she's here for me when I need her, especially when I just need someone to listen.

 
So if you have a dog, give them a big hug.  If not, then go get one and love it as much as you can!  And as always, HAVE FUN!