Day 27: Pets!

Those of you who know me at all or have ever visited this blog know that I have a dog. His name is Scout and he is my son. He is the first pet that I have actually owned, not just the family dog- Ryan and I picked him out after searching for days at local animal shelters. We had no idea what we wanted but we did know we wanted to rescue a dog. We had one dog picked out but I just wasn't sold- as cute as "8 ball" was (don't even get me started on the names that are assigned by animal shelters) he was very nervous and had quite a few accidents just in the short time we were trying to get to know him. I made a rash decision to stop by a smaller animal shelter before we chose 8-ball. We walked in and Scout was right next to the door in his cage. It was love at first site. The play area was next to his cage so we immediately opened the cage and he licked my face when I picked him up. We played with him for a few minutes and it already felt like he was ours. The shelter worker encouraged us to put him back and check-out the other animals to be sure he was what we wanted so we did so, we did bring this one other dog out to the play area- it was a girl which is what we originally wanted and she was cute but when we tried to play with her she also had a few accidents and the thing that really made our decision is that Scout cried the entire time we were looking at that other dog- after like 30 seconds of hearing him cry I said "take this dog away, i want the white one."
His name then was "Luther Van Dross"  then - really???

Luther and I have been best friends ever since- we swiftly changed his name to Scout and he is the sweetest, funniest dog ever! We celebrated his 2nd birthday yesterday, he was born on July 4th. Here he is after a long day of playing, swimming and being spoiled. He decided to take a nap with his Aunt Jess.

I LOVE YOU SCOUT JASPER!