Gracie's Story

I went back through my posts and realized that I never have mentioned Gracie or how we ended up with her. I mention in my first post that we have two dogs, and that's about it....Well, actually we have three dogs!

Our dog adventure started in 2007 with Bailey. About 10 months later we got Aspen to be a companion for Bailey. That was probably the best decision we ever made. Aspen brings such a calming influence to our wild and energetic Bailey. Aspen is also my baby. She is such a

mommy's girl.

Fast-forward to this summer. We knew that I would be going away for 6 months for my externships and that possibly I would also be going away for my residency and that I wanted to be able to bring Aspen with me. However, since Bailey has had the companionship of Aspen for 2 years now, she needs to have another dog around. She gets very anxious when she is by herself. So, we knew that in order for me to take Aspen with me, we'd have to get another dog. We hadn't started looking or anything when an opportunity arose.

A person was fired from the store that hubby used to work at before he went to bootcamp(he still works for Best Buy, just a different location) and they needed someone to work extra hours over there, so hubby volunteered. He was working with a guy from another store whom he(hubby) had trained back in 2006. Well, this guy asks hubby if we're interested in getting a puppy(!). Of course hubby said yes and come to find out it's a little girl, 7 weeks old, and a mix of a yorkie and a malti-poo. We talked about it and two days later we went a picked her up-a little black bundle of love-Gracie.

He(co-worker) had moved in with his girlfriend and both had dogs that were not fixed. Well, one thing led to another and Gracie and two other puppies were born. The co-worker and gf could not keep the puppies so they were giving them away(all we paid them for, was the vet care for Gracie)

The coolest part of the whole story is how Gracie got her name. She was the first puppy to be born. She was not breathing and did not have a heartbeat at birth. They thought she was stillborn. Co-worker decided he'd try to see if he could revive her so he started massaging her chest and eventually she started breathing. He said it was lucky that she lived and his mom said, Not luck, it was grace....so of COURSE she had to be named Gracie!

Now Gracie is 5 months old, 6 pounds and a wild licking maniac. She still loves to snuggle though and she and Bailey can play for hours and hours.