puppies!
Yeah, so I haven't posted at all about the new addition to the family this summer, Lady the Boston Terrier.
Background: for Christmas last year, we got my grandfather a Boston Terrier puppy. He named her Bitsy, and she was quite possibly the best dog there ever was, positively oozing personality. My grandfather loved that dog like it was his child. Calling her the light of his life would not be an exaggeration. The whole family was really attached to her. Unfortunately, she got run over the Tuesday before Fathers Day, by my grandfather's best friend coming to join him for breakfast no less. At first it looked like she might make it, though she'd have to have a leg amputated, but then he found out that she'd probably lose an eye, too, and might have brain damage, so he had to get her put to sleep.
For a while he was thinking about waiting until this fall to get a new puppy from the same breeder and hopefully same parents, but he came across an ad for some Bostons for sale in Griffin and decided to go ahead and get one. And so Booger came to join the family (so called because of a bit of pink flesh on the edge of her otherwise black nose, which has since either faded away or moved to inside her nostril). But that's not the end of the story. My stepdad, after seeing how attached my mom had been to Bitsy, had already decided he was going to get my mom a Boston for Christmas, but he decided instead to go get one of Booger's siblings. He came back on June 28th with a Boston puppy as a surprise for my mom. My mom named her Lady.
Lady and Booger are wonderful! My mom and stepdad are planning to breed Lady, and I've already been promised one of the first round of puppies. I can't wait.
The girls are just over five months old now, and they're growing fast. Lady is super smart, and I swear she understands English. Booger isn't quite as disciplined, so it's sometimes hard to tell how smart she is, but she's been maturing a good bit over the last few months and is seeming less and less different from her predecessor Bitsy.
Here are some pictures of the girls, from when they first arrived till now:
Lady (aka Ladybug)
Booger (aka Boogie - my mom and aunts refuse to call her Booger)
Lady and Booger together (with Will, my cousin Jerrell, and my uncle Joe)
Background: for Christmas last year, we got my grandfather a Boston Terrier puppy. He named her Bitsy, and she was quite possibly the best dog there ever was, positively oozing personality. My grandfather loved that dog like it was his child. Calling her the light of his life would not be an exaggeration. The whole family was really attached to her. Unfortunately, she got run over the Tuesday before Fathers Day, by my grandfather's best friend coming to join him for breakfast no less. At first it looked like she might make it, though she'd have to have a leg amputated, but then he found out that she'd probably lose an eye, too, and might have brain damage, so he had to get her put to sleep.
For a while he was thinking about waiting until this fall to get a new puppy from the same breeder and hopefully same parents, but he came across an ad for some Bostons for sale in Griffin and decided to go ahead and get one. And so Booger came to join the family (so called because of a bit of pink flesh on the edge of her otherwise black nose, which has since either faded away or moved to inside her nostril). But that's not the end of the story. My stepdad, after seeing how attached my mom had been to Bitsy, had already decided he was going to get my mom a Boston for Christmas, but he decided instead to go get one of Booger's siblings. He came back on June 28th with a Boston puppy as a surprise for my mom. My mom named her Lady.
Lady and Booger are wonderful! My mom and stepdad are planning to breed Lady, and I've already been promised one of the first round of puppies. I can't wait.
The girls are just over five months old now, and they're growing fast. Lady is super smart, and I swear she understands English. Booger isn't quite as disciplined, so it's sometimes hard to tell how smart she is, but she's been maturing a good bit over the last few months and is seeming less and less different from her predecessor Bitsy.
Here are some pictures of the girls, from when they first arrived till now:
Lady (aka Ladybug)
Booger (aka Boogie - my mom and aunts refuse to call her Booger)
Lady and Booger together (with Will, my cousin Jerrell, and my uncle Joe)
