New Little Poopies!

 

Looks as if I’m kissing my commitment issues goodbye these days- first marriage, then two new poopies…errr puppies.

Bilingual phonics lesson: In Spanish, there is no short “u” sound (uh, uh, umbrella). Therefore, it’s hard to get through Latino minds that a “u” isn’t always pronounced like “oo” in root.  Hence… I laugh every time Albin or someone says, “The poopies are so cute!”

Anyway, we got two little cachorritos (puppies) on Saturday. We’ve been talking about it for a while, but I didn’t want to make the commitment.  I finally gave in (Albin is quite persuasive) and we went to get ONE puppy at the local pound on Saturday. We come upon this cage and there were four tiny little balls of fur staring back at us. Albin is overcome with emotion and says that he is going to take all four of them. Call me heartless, but even as they stared at me with those pleading eyes and the señora behind me kept trying to convince me, I could not justify taking four dogs.

So we compromised. We brought home a boy and a girl. We named the girl “Luna,” which means “moon” in Spanish because she is white with grey spots and it looks like the pattern on the moon. The boy is named “Rocky” because he always picks fights with Luna…which is comical, because she’s a little bigger and she just sits on him. They’re zaguates (mutts), so it will be a surprise to see what breeds they actually have in them. Rumor has it, there is some wiener dog in them lol. The workers at the pound told us that they will be small, but I’m fairly certain that they would have told us the puppies would turn into cats when they got older just so we would take them. They’re so little that it’s hard to tell. Watch them be like Great Danes or something.

I guess you could say we’re muy feliz with our decision. Minus the fact that they haven’t stopped leaving us piles of caquita every time we look away. Oh and that they wake us up at 4 a.m.  with that “let’s play for two hours” look in their eyes.  Besides that, they’re pretty great and we love them.