Reasons to adopt a dog

Life is full of choices...

Cereal or toast?

1 sugar or 2 in the morning coffee?

Daily newspaper or latest gossip mag?

Clean the house or watch Bold & the Beautiful?

Who am I kidding????

Those are the choices I use to make before Miss Twinkle Toes became part of my world!

It's now more like should we...

Play inside or outside?

Trash the lounge room or trash the bedroom?

Watch Play School or In the Night Garden?

People have often asked me If people were to ask me,

"Why should I adopt a dog?"

I would reply,

"This choice to adopt a dog can be made simply by reflecting on the following reasons."

See if one of these little paw padded puppies would suit your lifestyle.

If you want someone who will eat whatever you put in front of him and never say its not quite as good as his mother's...

Then adopt a dog.

If you want someone always willing to go out, at any hour, for as long and wherever you want ...

Then adopt a dog.

If you want someone who will never touch the remote, doesn't care about football, and can sit next to you as you watch romantic movies...

Then adopt a dog.

If you want someone who is content to get on your bed just to warm your feet and whom you can push off if he snores...

Then adopt a dog.

If you want someone who never criticizes what you do, doesn't care if you are pretty or ugly, fat or thin, young or old, who acts as if every word you say is especially worthy of listening to, and loves you unconditionally, perpetually ...

Then adopt a dog.

BUT..

On the other hand, if you want someone who will...

Never come when you call,

Ignores you totally when you come home,

Leaves hair all over the place,

Walks all over you,

Runs around all night and only comes home to eat and sleep,

AND

acts as if your entire existence is solely to ensure his happiness...

Then I'm sure you know what you have to do.

Do I really need to tell you?

You probably have it figured out by now...

You may even have one at home already...

Just save yourself the trouble and

adopt a cat!

And you thought I was going to say marry a man...

I can't take full credit for this, although I did find all of the gorgeous puppies and can endorse the reasons above as to why you should adopt a dog.

Magical Moments from the past

It is hard to start a blog about Ashlyn, Winston & Max when so many magical moments have already occured.

Like when Max first came home, only to get very sick with Parvo Virus. I honestly believe if he hadn't come into our home filled with love,met his big brother Winston and his new human mummy & daddy, then maybe he sadly wouldn't have been with us today.

Lucky for us he is a real fighter and made it through those tough early days.

When I was 9 months pregnant with Ashlyn and 10 days overdue, Winston cuddled up to my huge baby bump and showed me a love for his new little sister and a protective instinct that words can not describe.
He knew that she was soon to be here... maybe even before we did...

When bringing Ashlyn home, Angus & I had no fear about how Winston & Max would interact and accept her into our family.

We had made 'pack life' pretty cruisy for our two fur babies but there has always been a definite heirarchy and no discrepencies over the order of our pack. Angus made sure that as leader, the dogs knew that Ashlyn was above them.

Ashlyn bought new meaning to the dogs life. At first glance there were inquisitive eyes from all parties and then some accepting licks placed on Ashlyn's feet. It was then that our pack became five.

Ashlyn became of great importance to Winston & Max. They would watch over her like she was a puppy of their own and would soon learn that she would become a fantastic food source!

On the day that this photo was taken in December 2009, Winston, Ashlyn & Max were
discovering and taking joy in the most simple thing....

A blade of grass...just magic!

To describe each and every moment of interaction between these three beautiful friends and their lives so far would be far more difficult than you could possibly imagine.

I hope over time I can add in lots of details about their lives, how they happen to come into our lives and the journeys and adventures that each one has been on so far.

In the mean time, I am hoping pictures will speak volumes...