This is Bonnie (Raitt)! We finally decided it was time for a puppy after losing 3 older pups in a year.

I lost my oldest pup in 2022 when she was just a couple months shy of her 20th birthday.

This past year we lost the remaining three from that original “pack”: February we lost our our 14 year old Rhodesian mix on the way to the emergency vet to an abscessed tooth that went undiagnosed (after several vet visits), in December we lost our Lab mix passed peacefully at home at 19 years old, and our sweet 13 year old Fox Hound couldn’t take his nasal cancer symptoms anymore and decided it was time.

All of the above were “rescues” so I knew that’s how we’d eventually get our next one but always felt guilty of the idea of getting a puppy from the shelter because they have a better chance of getting picked up.

But after a year of loss and old age struggles I thought we have earned a time with a puppy. She was the last of her litter but at 11 weeks she has been an angel and we couldn’t have asked for a better pick me up!

(Sorry for any errors I can’t see what I’m typing as I type it for some reason)