Joy, Joy, Joy!!!

This is a picture of our new baby Joy. As you can tell by the cat to the right of her Petey, was not thrilled to have her in our home! LOL I adopted her yesterday. I've been on the look out for another dog, but all the ones I've seen or been offered it just didn't seem right. While in Petsmart yesterday afternoon I happened upon one of the local animal shelters, Friend's of the Animals. They take animals out of the shelters and place them in foster homes until they are adopted out. The little dogs loved me, and if you know me I'm soooo not a little dog person!! But this fuzzy beast just laid at the back of the room with her foster Mom and watched all that was going on. I was instantly drawn to her. We hit it off and it was love! Joy is 6 months old, she weighs 65 lbs! Joy's Mom is a chow/wolf mix and her Dad is a Great Pyrenese, the mother is 75 lbs and the father is 150lbs!! I think she will be a pony, not a dog! LOL She loves to watch the rabbits, but doesn't bother them, though she is still separated from them as it will take a while for me to trust her with them. She was highly confused with the guinea pigs. She couldn't see into their cage but could hear them so I took out the calm one, Sophia, and held her while Joy looked on. Joy looked at the GP, turned her head and looked at the rabbit cage, looked back at the GP, back the rabbit cage. She couldn't figure it out but her curiosity has been satisfied for now.

Joy isn't so sure about Alan. When he got home from work this morning, she and I met him in the driveway and she was okay, but after we got in the house she growled and barked at him!!!! She did this allot through out the day but it slowly tapered off and now she seems okay with him. We'll have to see how tomorrow goes. Joy likes Daniel, or should I say his Yoda! While I was home alone with her last night, before Daniel got home, she'd been exploring the house and she brought me Yoda out of Dan's room! Needless to say, he wasn't happy to find out there was puppy slobber on his stuffed animal! LOL But he likes her and just won't admit it. I'll hear him softly calling her name and she goes right to him.

I think Joy is a mothering type, she wanted to mother Yoda, one of my shoes, a slipper, and a tiny stuffed elephant I gave her. I can't even begin to tell anyone how much better I feel just having her in the house. I feel like I have a reason to get up in the mornings again. After Rocky left I really didn't have any reason to stay up after Daniel went to school or stay up after supper. Now I have to stay up to make sure Joy's needs are met, and so that she gets out to potty before bedtime (she's crate trained so she goes "night night" in the crate, at least until she doesn't chew anymore!). It also might keep strange men out of my bedroom!! Long story, I'll tell about it at a later time.