Back up a few months.
Toby and I had been discussing getting another puppy off and on for a while. Toby really wanted to get another dog because he wanted the kids to grow up with a puppy. I was completely against it but told him if we did ever get another dog, I wanted a big dog. Like a Great Dane. Toby shot that down so I settled for a German Shepard. In college one of my roommates had a German Shepard and I loved him. But like I said, I did not want another dog. I wanted to wait until Herky died.
Going back to May
Toby asked if I was serious about going to look at the dog and I said, "sure, why not. Just because we are going to look at it doesn't mean we are going to get it." FAMOUS LAST WORDS. We told the kids to get their shoes on because we were going to look at a dog that needed a home. We told them that we were JUST LOOKING. Not to expect anything because the dog could be mean. Of course they were super excited anyway.
When we looked up the address we looked up the address for the Garland Adoption Center which was part of the shelter. We just assumed that's where the puppy was. We drove to the adoption site and decided it was best for Toby to get out first and go look because we didn't want to get kids hope up. Toby was gone for quite a while. When he finally came back he said the German Shepard wasn't there. I asked him what took him so long and he said he was talking to some people about a Rottweiler Mix puppy. I told him we were NOT adopting a Rottweiler but he convinced me to come look at her. We were led to a play yard in the back and introduced to a 4 month old Rottweiler puppy named Xena. X
Xena's previous owners had moved from Virgina to Texas and weren't able to keep her at the apartment they were living at. Toby actually met and talked to the owners. They told him that she was house trained, crate trained, could sit and shake on command and most importantly had lived with children ages 6 and 4. What are the odds that a puppy was already used to kids the exact same age as ours?! As we played with her one of the volunteers told us that she was a well behaved, gentle dog. She was at ease with our children and loved the attention. After some convincing on my part I agreed to consider adopting her. I only had one reservation. She had some kind of skin condition that I was scared was ring worm. I had a bad experience growing up when my family adopted a cat with ring worm and I did not want to go through with that. I said the only way I was adopting her was if I could take her to our vet to be checked out first. Amazingly the volunteered agreed and came with us! Long story short, Xena had the non contagious kind of mange. So yes, we adopted a mangy mutt.
Xena fit in with our family immediately. Her and Herky play for hours together. She has been good for Herky. He seems happier now that she is around. The kids adore her. Especially Cason. It can get awfully loud when Cason and the 2 dogs are playing together. Cason is also in charge of feeding the dogs each day.
So......HERE IS XENA!
She is a Rottweiler/Lab mix. She is sweet, loves to cuddle, loves to have her belly scratched, would play all day if she had someone to play with her, would sleep in our beds if we let her. She can be rambunctious and still has some manners to learn but we have never been more happy then to have her as part of our family!
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