Naming a pup

I had to put Tressy down on Friday, August 24, 2007. It was a heart breaking experience and I spent the day in tears. I had so many close friends telling me I needed to get a new pup as soon as possible. For some reason they seemed concerned that I would do something crazy, which is far from the truth. I've had a lot happen to me in the last few months. I rush job transfer and move from California to Colorado, losing my job due to the branch being closed down within a month after moving, and then the loss of my 4 legged best friend.

Friends were doing searches and I started looking on craigs list as well as checking out animal shelters, pup adoptions programs here in Denver area, etc. My roommate and I had plans to go looking at Petsmart this Saturday if the pups shown online Friday were something I was interested in. I was really considering getting a lab and not another doberman. However, my best human friend, who was in love with Tressy, told me I should really stick with a dobie since I was so familiar and comfortable with them. He suggested adopting a young rescued dobie and I found a male that was 1 yr old and a female about 2. The shelter never responded to my emails or phone calls. In the mean time, another friend found 2 ads in the Tulsa OK newspaper and gave me the information.

I'm guessing someone above must have been directing this or my guardian angels were helping me out. I called both numbers and spoke to one of the sellers. He said he wanted $1000 for his females and $850 for males. I thanked him but said due to unemployment and the death of Tressy I couldn't afford to buy one of his dogs. He said he'd still like to meet with me on Tuesday and let me look at the pups he had with him. It turns out he and his wife had been in Southern California with one of his Blue male studs and also had a litter of pups he was selling. He'd sold several and was taking them to their new owners. He ended up calling me 5 times on Tuesday and finally made a good deal for me. He dropped the price of the black male dobie pup to $550, said he'd take $200 in cash and give me 30 days to pay the balance. If I didn't have a new job in 30 days he'd let me make $50 a month payments. I haven't named him yet. I keep waiting to see what name fits his personality. Everyone I talk to so far suggests calling him Apollo or Zeus. I laugh and say no.. one of my favorite old TV programs was Magnum PI and therew were 2 male dobermans on the program named Apollo and Zeus. So for now, this cute pup is nameless.