Obama Puppies!!!!

CNN has a fun iReport to help the Obama family select their long promised puppy. I'm sure they'll know their puppy when they see it. Sometimes puppies just come to you without even having to go looking for them! Which is what happened to me on Monday.

I almost ran over my puppy as she had escaped her previous humans and was frolicking in traffic when I spotted her. I circled back as she was headed out to the big 6 lane road and a lady pushing her two kids in a stroller helped me capture her. Turned out she knew where the puppy lived and I taxied her right home. The lovely older couple had been searching for her but she was long gone. They'd taken her from their son when he was no longer able to have her at his residence and I was quite surprised when Mr. Lost Puppy Owner asked me if I wanted her! SURE!! She was the right size and I'd been wanting a puppy but not a baby puppy really. This one was 8 months old he told me and I thought, "Good so she's all through her teething stage and probably house broken too"! She'd been well behaved in the car ride as well.

I picked her up the next day.... Election Day!!! So the Obama girls aren't the only ones getting a puppy on Election Day. Officially I named her Pearly Blue.... from a bluegrass song, but I call her Pearl mostly.

So far she's taken over my bed and been on her first shopping spree at PetCo. New bowls, food, treats, toys, leather collar with little flowers and a lovely sage green and brown quilted coat. Yes, that's right... the puppy got a coat! I could not believe I was buying a coat for my dog. She doesn't have much a coat really and it IS 28 degrees outside ..... and she was shivering out there! She needed the coat, okay. *blush*

Here's the old Flatt and Scruggs song "Down The Road" (about Pearly Blue!) done by the River City Dream Band at Portland's River City Fest in 2006. Fantastic lineup!



So far, Pearly Blue is just such a swearheart! Glad she found me ;-)