pondering a pup

oh that didn't work.

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she actually just CHOSE to go sit in her crate like a good girl!

<3
she is gorgeous
how old is she?

7-8 monthsish.

thank you! she is sweeeet.

i'm so happy for you, what a great xmas gift.

thank you <3 it really is a great gift!

basil<3

great dog!

she is quite the tail wagger!

What a beauty! I love her white toes!

she is the cutest thing!! would just like to reiterate how insanely jealous i am!!

Aw, I know you will get yours soon!

Jaq, she also has the cutest little white stripe on top of her snout/nose <3

MORE PHOTOS!!!!!

lol it was hard to take good ones last night because my apt has lots of black furniture and low lighting and she is black!

she really loves the crate
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Omg I'm so in love with her

this is the 'god mom, stop taking pictures of me jeeeeze' face
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she really needs a bath but she was spayed on the 15th and i think the incision needs to stay dry at least 10 days. hmm.

god these images are hueg. sorry!

super cuet nose stripe!!!! What a love!

<3

it seems to me we should be getting regular basil updates, but instead we are not getting any.

sorry! we have been very busy going back and forth to my sister's house (45 min each way ugh). finally having a quiet day.

she wasn't really into running around sister's yard on christmas and instead sat nicely for me to take this picture!
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she is going to the vet on saturday to have her spaying stitches removed/examined. then i think she will be allowed to go to a dog park :)

she really loves her monkey (but she already killed the squeaker in his head)
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she lusted after the christmas roast for hours
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jaq, her pads are also really cool!
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i hope this overload satisfies your update needs, estela. i promise to do better in the future.

btw, that woman was STILL posting Riley on craigslist as of yesterday! wth?!?!

cute puppy

ty!

thank you t<3, early impressions are that she is top notch with a desirable element of disgraceful.

i love the black/white color combination, it's just like my disgraceful cat

Basil is cuter than the other dogs you posted so I'm glad you ended up with her!

^^^

i wanna play with her ears, which is probably rude

her ears are awesome and she doesn't mind them being petted but I dunno how much ridiculousness she would tolerate.

This is one lovely pup - is she part exuberant monster and part drowsy lovelorn beggar?

yes! she lovvves to run and would chase after every squirrel she saw if i would let her. she had a blast playing with my sister's dog today, and was definitely displaying some alpha traits. but she also has a habit of whimpering and looking at you really manipulatively when she wants something. sometimes she just follows me around the house, she lovvvves belly rubs and is currently on the couch next to me snoring away <3

<3
next we have to find a puppy for smoove and a cat for mookie.

Yes!!!

i have now been told by about 6 people that basil looks like a dog named finn, yet we have never encountered finn himself! He seems to be quite popular. Where is this infamous dog?

basil went to the vet today and she was very good and she loved the doctor! stitches out! but she does seem to be allergic to something (she's been sneezing and her paws show signs of licking). vet suggests trying new food as it could be chicken :(

wellness food has been great for harry's skin and paws, he gets a mix of wet and dry food and he loves it better than anything else ever.

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i love this pic but feel that i am being judged as wanting

probably fair

it's time for an update.

pupdate por favor

i don't wanna jinx it but.................

it's maybe gonna happen?!?! LL is def swaying towards saying yes. she called ytth at work and talked his ear off for over an hour - her main concern is that we won't be able to spend enough time with a dog (lol!!!), i thought she was gonna be freaked about the garden and the hardwood floors, and her crazy allergies, but she is an animal lover and just wants to make sure we are fully prepared for the commitment. but she LOVES ytth so much, and of course he had great responses to all her concerns. she is also worried that if she says yes to us, she'll have to see yes to our neighbours, who she doesn't really like and who asked for a dog when they moved in 8 years ago.

she is gonna "sleep on it for a few days" but she said that talking to ytth had def swayed her towards our side.

KEEP ALL YOUR FINGERS CROSSED FOR US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good luck!

i really really hope she says yes!

Everything crossed!!

Pupdate:
Basil is awesome and I love her so much! She started puppy class last week and she is the prettiest, most popular, best behaved girl in class. The other pup moms fawn over her. She learned shake and lay down really fast, but we are struggling a bit with the leash manners (she is easily distracted by squirrels, dogs, birds, buses, cars, people, etc. and pulllls a lot). She is also showing some weird behavior around s! She loves him but then sometimes she gets too excited and pees a tiny bit, usually when he first comes home. It is an excitement/submissive thing rather than a housebreaking thing...he needs to work on his approach to her maybe? I didn't even know this was a thing!

The other day we went for a meet and greet at the doggy daycare recommended by our new upstairs neighbor, who has a dog that basil gets along with like gangbusters. They only let her meet the other dogs for a few min and then they said she exhibited like every type of doggy behavior possible. Weird. Anyway, she is going on Thursday to see how it goes, and they have a webcam so I can check in on her. She loves the dog park and plays well with all the dogs there, from Rottweilers to pugs, so I don't know what was up with the amy are people. I think she just takes a few min to adjust to new environments and they didn't give her enough time? We'll see. I don't want them to reject her!

I have to go on a work trip next week and it's going to be so hard!

Also I think she is growing! It's hard to say bc I don't have a scale or measurements but she looks a little taller, and I think her face is starting to look a tiny bit re grown up? I could also be making it up.

*more grown up