Someday I'll get back to posting about serious things but it seems like animals and keep filling up my freethinking time. Over a week ago my wife found a dog online with the local group called "Last Hope animal shelter". We're thinking about a small dog instead of another cat. My 1st cat we had back before we got married didn't live to be 10. Macy was only 11 so were thinking maybe a small dog be a better choice. We filled out an application online and so far have not heard back. The dog my wife noticed was very mild-mannered, quiet and fairly small. This group had an adoption event for dogs at a local pet store on Saturday so we decided to go thinking maybe there was another dog there would work out. We got to meet a number of the staff and we took Atlas along and he made friends with each of the dogs there which I think surprise them. That is one of their big concerns is the ability for the pet to get along with existing pets. There were 3 pitbull mixes and Atlas made friends with each of them.
I am amazed how affectionate these pitbull mixes are. If I could live with a bigger dog I would happily adopt one. The most affectionate one was named Gemma. She jumped up on the arm of my chair to meet me and she is a sweetheart. She is not a young dog a would make a great addition to many people. One thing I did notice is that there descriptions of the website mentioned that most pitbull mixes shouldn't go to homes with cats. Cats must trigger some sort of negative behavior or aggressiveness. Atlas on the other hand loves everybody and everything.
We talked to one of the staff about our application and out we were interested in the little dog. It wasn't there and she said there was an adoption pending on it but she would check and see how that was going. I thought it was good that we met the staff because now they see my condition and that I need a companion type animal to replace Macy and that Atlas will get along with anything. She did mention a cat that they had gotten so who knows, maybe will end up with a cat. We did go over and look at the cats for adoption through the store and one of them was licking her paws. Matt tried to get her attention through the plastic and she just looked up at him like "what do you want, I'm kind of busy here". That attitude reminded me up Macy. We have Atlas still June so I'm not sure were in a hurry and animal before he's gone so that they can get used to each other. Maybe someday I'll get serious again but lately I have had a "I don't really care much" attitude. All in all I had a fairly quiet weekend and this was really the only outside of the home activity I had. I don't know if it's good or bad but I'm getting to where I don't really care if I ever leave the house. I am glad when I do when it's something activity-based but most of the time this is to go to the doctor. I'm pretty sick of doctors.
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