Another Mouth To Feed

Allison had been talking about getting a second Labrador for the past few months. My standard response has always been “but you already have one”. But since I have multiple bikes (and a couple of under-used cars for that matter), I didn’t have much ground to stand on. So from the Labrador Rescuers (the same agency we got Juno from three years ago) comes Boomer.

 

A seven year-old, well-trained and overweight male. His previous owners abandoned him on USMC Camp Pendleton a few weeks ago. They had called the on-base animal shelter to surrender a seven year-old black Lab, but the shelter was full. He was found later the same night, wandering about on an airstrip. Thankfully a base fire chief is also a volunteer for the Lab Rescuers, he picked “Boomer” up and brought him home.

 Fast forward a few weeks and he’s now with us. At 105 lbs., he’s still a good 15-20 lbs. overweight, but with some activity, he should be in better shape within a few months. He’s very well-mannered and gets along just fine with Juno. We’ll see how he is in the long run, and if his “true” personality comes out like Juno’s did after a few months.

Dog on the Blog

Allie has been looking for a good, adoptable dog from the local Labrador rescue organization for the past few months. Well today we finally found "the one".

We went to a dog festival "Paws in the Park" in Solana Beach today as she had heard that a certain pup was going to be present.

Her name (at the moment at least) is Pebbles. She's about 4-5 years old, an almost-white yellow Lab female. And probably the fattest Lab I have ever seen.
She came to the rescue from a breeder and pushed out some puppies over the years. In fact, relatively recently as she's pretty droopy on her underside.
Weighing in at a whopping 125, our first goal is to get her weight down to about 100 or so. Then down even further if possible. She's on a prescription weight-loss dog food (can't wait to find out how much that costs) and with many walks planned by Allie, she should do alright.
She's a pretty mellow girl, reminding us a lot of the last Lab we rescued from a breeder - Nessie (R.I.P.). Her foster "parents" state that she's only barked once, loves tennis balls and swimming and is great around kids. She seemed pretty nice today even though there were hundreds of distracting dogs around.

Allie will pick her up sometime later in the week. It'll be great to have a doggie around the house again.
Oh, and name - right now we're leaning towards Juno. In Roman mythology Juno is protector and special counselor of the state. Also the sister (and oddly also the wife) to Jupiter.