(Submitted by friend of the blog, Kathleen Scott)
We’ve been talking about rescuing a small dog for about a year. Problem is, neither of us have dealt with a dog in an apartment or ever owned a small dog. Would we be able to deal with daily walking, greater need for attention, and all the other not-cat traits that come with dog ownership?
One day we were running errands, talking it over in the car. We decided that what we really needed was a test-dog but it had to be perfect – small, liked cats, house-trained, didn’t chew up the house, etc.
Got home that day to find a Facebook message from a friend. She’s going out of town and needed someone to watch her Pomeranian – who is small, sweet, likes cats, is house trained and doesn’t chew on things. We decide what we need, it happens!
(Although it must be said that we had been talking about rescuing a dog for a long time. We really want a dog in our house and the subject is raised weekly. It took an entire year before an ideal situation presented itself.)
[EDITOR: Personally I’m shocked at the odds of a small dog who’s house trained and doesn’t chew on things. I have enough gnaw marks around my house to be impressed by that one.]
