Today was meet-those-mysterious-people-you-met-on the-Internet-day.
Last evening I had a message on my machine from a lady who had seen the pups' pictures on the PetFinder.com web site and she said she was interested in Baxter. I said I would be willing to bring him for a "visit". She lives about 1.5 hours away in Newark (DE not NJ) and said she would meet us half way - I suggested a Service area in the Interstate about 15 minutes from her home, and she agreed. (I can imagine a single Mom might be reluctant to give some disembodied male voice directions to her home and open the door with greetings.)
S Woody and I donned our gay PetFinder.com apparel (me in the purple seat shirt, he in his gray ball cap - well, actually my ball cap since Fletcher had snacked on his Saturday evening). With a sneaky plan in mind, I suggested we take Mom and both pups.
We rendezvoused relatively un-eventfully (we were in the same parking lot, but had trouble finding each others car - I got out of mine to get a better look and she said "I think I see you on the phone" - I waved, she waved, etc, etc.
We pulled up near her car and the Lady and her 4 year daughter, Hillary came trotting up to visit the dogs. Peggy went bounding out of the car on my side, Woody got Baxter out of the car on his side, and Benny jumped out on his own. Baxter promptly hid under the car while mangy ole Benny went bouncing over to see the new people. Peggy circled around and went and greeted everyone like the nice bitch lady she is. Baxter joined the party and there was lots of dog hugging and petting. Mom asked Hilary what she thought, I Hilary (Bless you child) said I want him, pointing at Benny!
Fine said Mom - I explained we needed to do a home visit to make sure they didn't serve puppy as cuisine and she invited us to follow (I even let the kid take Benny in the car with her!). We got to her apartment complex and I took Benny's food/water bowl and squeaky toy along for the trip upstairs. 30 minutes later I was on my way, application filled out, check in hand. Benny was learning how to jump off their couch and looking forward to spending bedtime with the family.
Sign...all in a day's work!
der Brucer
Note to self: "Buy cheaper leashes if you're going to leave them with the dog!"