“Something I am grateful for is that I got a new dog this week!”

Something I am grateful for is that I got a new dog this week! I was at work, and I work kind of near an animal shelter. So pretty frequently, we'll see, during work meetings, the volunteers walking dogs around our building. And for some reason this dog really caught my eye, it was - it looked like a lab, but it was really tall. So I wasn't sure what kind of dog it was, but I assumed it was maybe a lab or a golden mixed with something else. So I went over to the animal shelter and, originally, I was just interested in looking at the cats, maybe petting some dogs. But I started to think about it more seriously, so I put my name in and they don't hold dogs for anyone, but they told me that this dog would be available on a certain day. So when dogs are brought in by Animal Control, there's a period of time that they're kept at the shelter, just in case the owners show up. They obviously check for a chip right away and if they're able to contact someone they will, but otherwise they just keep them for a while waiting for the owners, possibly. And this dog seemed really taken care - well taken care of. It was neutered and has some training at least, so they were pretty surprised when no one came to get it. Shortly after we adopted, we looked all over Michigan on different websites to see if somebody had lost the dog, but we weren't able to find anything. But anyway, I saw this dog, was interested, filled out the paperwork. Eventually, when the dog became available, I brought my partner over there and he was interested in getting a second dog, but feeling a little bit cautious because our first dog is really reactive. She will play with other dogs and it's okay, but she has to know them pretty well. The first, you know, few minutes of her meeting a dog are scary enough that it's not something we do super often. She's never actually like bitten a dog or anything, but she really snarls and with smaller dogs it's worse, so we just try to avoid that altogether. But larger dogs, it tends to be okay. So we were hopeful that they would get along, and after maybe five…

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