@amn I just adopted a little puppy girl who is 13 weeks old, she came home with me this past Sunday.
I have a second job working janitorial shifts at a dog kennel/daycare, and the business sometimes fosters rescue dogs. Well one day in September two foster dogs come in, they had been tied up to a post early one morning at a dog park. They were a breeding pair of Jack Russell mixes (maybe some Rat Terrier or even Chihuahua in the girl), and she was quite pregnant. So they came to live at the kennel, they had a huge room all to themselves, and eventually a play pen and whelping box. I work overnight so I gave them breakfast and hung out with them on my break, they are super sweet pups. She gave birth on October 2nd to five puppies who are all super cute and unique and healthy (one of them might have mega-esophagus, but is managing great). They all had cute color patterns and looked more like Dad, except the last one born who came out white and looked more like Mom. She also was the first to open her eyes and over time her light brown coloring over her eyes and ears started coming in (and a brown dot right in the center of her head). She was a total clone of her mother, and just super sweet and funny.
So I kind of had an in with the rescue since I've been helping take care of them since birth, and she is currently on my lap snoozing. She's 13 weeks and I fear I missed some socializing time because the rescue was trying to avoid the puppies becoming Christmas gifts and waited to process applications, but she's here now and it's been less chaotic than I thought! I'm waiting for the shoe to drop though lol
Mom and Dad are getting adopted together soon and her siblings probably soon after, they've been pretty popular online so I'm glad I had a direct line to the rescue owners.
Puppy Tax
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Adoption fee is $375, and they're suggesting I do a Facebook fundraiser and whatever I raise can go to the adoption fee. That comes with all vaccinations, spaying eventually. They also gave me a big bag and cans of the food she's been eating, a gift certificate to get a months supply of that same food, some treats, a puppy sweater and jacket, a blanket, a personalized bandana with her shelter name on it, a leash, collar and harness, some puppy pads, and a heartbeat stuffed dog that's got the scent of her litter mates and parents on it.