You read that right. My family accidentally got a dog. Haha.
A little background, my husband has wanted a dog since we were married 17 years ago. I've never had a dog and I've never felt it was the right time. First, we both were in school and working full time and I didn't want to leave a pet at home all day. Then when kids started coming in the picture, I didn't want to deal with babies and diapers while also stressing about a dog.
But my baby just turned 6, so we're no longer in the baby stage. We've kicked the idea around, but haven't been serious about it yet because of upcoming vacations and an upcoming renovation.
So here's what happened. We were having a hot dog roast at my in-law's house when their neighbor's cocker spaniel puppies came over to play. My kids love playing with the puppies. We were talking about dogs and puppies and I pulled up Facebook marketplace to see what sorts of dogs were in our area and costs, and rescues, etc.
I looked for about 5 seconds, then put my phone down.
The next thing I knew, I was getting messages. The first one said:
“Yes, we have 1 puppy left.”
I realized… whoops! I accidentally hit the “Is this available?” button on one of the dogs I had just searched.
I was just going to ignore it and set my phone down again, but then I got another message with pictures:
“This is the puppy we have left.”
Then…
“Would you like to come by tonight and look at her?”
By this point, I realized I should probably respond and showed the messages to my husband, like haha look what I accidentally did!!
Straight faced, he looked at me and said, “let's go see her.”
The location was close to our house, so at 9pm Saturday night, we pulled up to this house and before we exited the car, my husband said “prepare yourself, because I'm not going to say no to getting a puppy."
And we fell in love.
Then of course, it was a mad dash to the grocery store to get some dog food and bowls, etc, but now we have a family dog!
Her name is Shadow and she's half Alaskan, half Siberian husky.