Marley

Micali has been wanting a dog for a very long time. We are getting ready to move to a house with a nice fenced yard so we decided now was a good time. We checked around on craigslist and some online classifieds. We found a super cute picture of a six month old little puppy named Marley(now we know that picture was quite dated. he must have only been two months old in the picture we saw). We emailed the owner who told us Marley was a very loving puppy but she had just got a new job and he was staying in a cage all day. She said she would love to give him to our family. About a week later she decided she wanted to keep him instead. We were sad because we had shown Micali his picture and talked to her about getting him. So we started our search again. On Friday morning she emailed us again and decided that it wasn’t right for her dog to never get out of his cage. So, Kendra had called and talked about coming down to Moab to go hiking. I told her if she wanted to she could pick up this cute little pup for us and surprise Micali. Instead of all of us driving 5 hours to get him.

Well she agreed and went to pick up a HUGE  “puppy” who wasn’t trained at all and was jumping all over her and the car. She had to stop and get a kennel to put him in and a guy in the parking lot had to help her shove the crazy thing into it.

I was a little concerned of what kind of thing we were getting as she was telling me about it on the way down.

Now we have had him two days and he has chilled a lot. Amazing what exercise can do for a pup. He loves Luke and is learning to love the rest of us. Our awesome neighbors let us borrow a shock collar so we could jump start his training a little. It has worked really well for him and I think we will really enjoy having him around(OUTSIDE!).

We still think he is pretty stinking cute and love his coloring.