An Answer to a Prayer...

Last week, I had e-mailed the woman who runs the rural Missouri rescue facility from which we adopted Gordon. I know that she takes an active interest in where and how her dogs end up, so I wanted to let her know about everything. I hadn't heard anything back right away.

Over the weekend, on a whim, I decided to check Petfinder.com to see if maybe - just maybe - one of the two female pups that were left of the litter when we adopted Gordon were still in need of a home.

I was surprised to find that there was a new listing at the same rescue for a puggle litter of 4 males and 3 females, born on Feb. 3. I didn't want to get my hopes up, but they are such a rarity to find in rescues, especially at this one in the middle of nowhere. Just the idea that these could possibly be Gordon's siblings was enough to pull me out of the sadness of the first few days.

I finally heard from the rescue owner yesterday, who was of course very sorry to hear about what had happened. She has been in contact with the owners of the other pups from his litter and all of them are excellent. She went on to tell me about the new litter. While they have a different pug dad, they are indeed from Gordon's mom!!

We had wanted to wait awhile to recover, but we both agree that Louie needs a companion sooner rather than later. Moreover, if we were to add another member to the family eventually, we would definitely want it to be from a rescue. Finally, Gordon is absolutely irreplaceable, but if given the choice, wouldn't we rather have a pup related to him than any other?

As these puppies are only 7 or so weeks old, and our schedules are too busy right now to consider throwing a puppy who needs 24/7 care into the mix, we'll take some time to make a decision and then go see them maybe by next weekend. In the meantime, she will be holding at least one of the males for us until we can make it out there :)

I'll keep you all posted...