So when we arrived at the breeder today, thrumming with excitement about bringing home our new puppy, it quickly became clear that:<\/p>\n
a) in the year and a half we’ve been on the waiting list, the breeder totally forgot who we were<\/p>\n
and<\/p>\n
b) as a result, she’d matched us with a puppy who was going to be temperamentally unsuited to our family. The puppy she’d picked out for us was much smaller than her littermates, and showed some tendencies toward shyness and anxiety. This is obviously a bad fit for a family with two active and exuberant little boys. To her credit, she realized the mistake immediately and was pretty up-front about it. But the end result is that we came home without a puppy.<\/p>\n
The next litter will be born in July, ready to come home in September. It’s definitely a disappointment. But the kids actually took the whole thing quite well. They seemed to feel that driving an hour and a half to play with a puppy for fifteen minutes, and then turning around and driving home, was a perfectly sensible use of a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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