Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Maggie's change of Status
We got a call from the pet adoption agency last night. Here's the email Nora put out describing developments:
Hello. Unfortunately, we found out last night that we're not going to be getting Maggie after all.
At the time that we saw her, she was very mellow. Her foster mom had her for 3 weeks and said she never chewed furniture, jumped on you or acted extremely high energy. That sounded perfect to us, since we both work full-time and have small children. So we decided to adopt her. Last night we found out she is starting to exhibit these behaviors. The person from HAHS says she thinks Maggie was so mellow before because she was depressed or mourning not being with her former owner, and now she's starting to come out of that and her true personality is showing through. She's 67 lbs and we can't have that large of a dog jumping on our kids, so we are back at the drawing board, searching for the right dog for our family. I'm sure it's for the best. This way Maggie can find a home more conducive to her temperament.
Needless to say we're disappointed. We haven't really broken the news to Pierce and Anna yet (fortunately they can't yet read this blog). I suspect we'll conveniently "forget" Maggie was supposed to come home with us.
-Eric (Dad)
Hello. Unfortunately, we found out last night that we're not going to be getting Maggie after all.
At the time that we saw her, she was very mellow. Her foster mom had her for 3 weeks and said she never chewed furniture, jumped on you or acted extremely high energy. That sounded perfect to us, since we both work full-time and have small children. So we decided to adopt her. Last night we found out she is starting to exhibit these behaviors. The person from HAHS says she thinks Maggie was so mellow before because she was depressed or mourning not being with her former owner, and now she's starting to come out of that and her true personality is showing through. She's 67 lbs and we can't have that large of a dog jumping on our kids, so we are back at the drawing board, searching for the right dog for our family. I'm sure it's for the best. This way Maggie can find a home more conducive to her temperament.
Needless to say we're disappointed. We haven't really broken the news to Pierce and Anna yet (fortunately they can't yet read this blog). I suspect we'll conveniently "forget" Maggie was supposed to come home with us.
-Eric (Dad)
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