Big News: Shelley

Okay guys, we got a puppy.  For a number of quite legitimate reasons, I looked at petfinder.com and found the most adorable great dane/lab mix puppy.  She's 11 weeks old (we're going to call her birthday March 12).  She was left at a shelter in WV, after a family member of the mama dog's family was killed in Afghanistan.  They had to rush out of state to make funeral arrangements and left the puppies at the shelter.  Shelley was the last of the bunch.  It is a shelter that kills the animals after about 15 days, as they get so many animals and their facility is small.  In fact, when we arrived, it was a small cinderblock building, and looked about the size of a pig sty, rather than a county run animal shelter!  But there she was!  

She was marred by a pitbull (I don't know why they put a puppy with a pitbull!), and we're going to see Dr. Todd in an hour and see if she needs a stitch or two.  So the big gash in her cheek is, hopefully, temporary.

She has been AMAZING.  She is super scared, and hides in her crate and under the bed a lot of the time, but this morning (around 5 am) she whimpered in her crate, and when I let her out, she tackled me with kisses.  At 11 months, she can already tackle my face and paw my cheeks, she's so big!  

The biggest fear was how Mocha would take to her, and Mocha (praise Jesus!) has just LOVED her, which is a dag-on miracle.  She just runs around the house with her and they whimper for each other.  It's quite precious.  Here are the pictures!

I know it seems kind of silly to praise God for this puppy -- but when I adopted Mocha, I swear, it was like she was MEANT for me.  She