Some of you may recall a thread I started a couple of months ago about my beautiful 11 yo SBT having cancer and having to go rainbow bridge.
It's been hard, I'm so lonely in the mornings, I always look for her, still talk to her, still go to put food in her bowl that isn't there anymore. I miss her so very much.
A very close friends family member has a 2 yo beautiful blue SBT who now needs a better home, the one she has is perfectly fine, but my friend thinks the dog will be much happier with me, get more exercise, attention, cuddles etc and also serve to fill the dog shaped hole that we all have in our lives. She's been brought up with babies, has already been spayed so they are clearly responsible owners and she sounds just lovely.
Were going to meet her on sunday, it took a while to get dp on board with it, unfortunately for him I wasn't going to let him "put his foot down" on this one and I ground him down eventually. He's gone from a very reluctant "right we'll go and meet her but I'm not promising anything" to discussing how he will handle any training issues such as off lead probs and where shell sleep, downstairs or on our bed 
For me this is perfect, a dog needs a home so I'm keeping her out of a rescue and won't be going to just anyone, she's over the torrid puppy gnawing/pin teeth/shitting everywhere phase, and most importantly the dog will have the best home ever for the rest of her life. I'm nervous as it does feel a bit soon after my dear dogs passing, god I miss her so much I can't breathe sometimes, but there again is this fate? And is it better to just get back on the horse before I decide to never get one again? Some sort of comfort maybe?
Keep em crossed for me that all goes well on Sunday. I'm very excited aswell and nervous. I hope she likes us :)
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MollyMooDog · 28/07/2017 07:45
Thank you 
I was a cat person, had 7 at one point who all lived very long lives, 5 were strays that I forced mum to take on 
but when Molly came along she changed me completely, still love cats, but I'm very much a dog mum now :)
Cheers bitey
To help her settle I was thinking about finding out everything I can about her creature comforts, so where does she sleep now, where does she like to be scratched, any noises she doesn't like, etc etc and then when/if we get her just sort of leaving her to snuffle about, almost ignoring her, to give her time to get used to the smells, sounds etc and then if she comes to us then make a fuss over her.
I'm so hopeful she will just do what Staffies do though and 'claim' us immediately as her forever humans
So the meet went really well, few issues, - very VERY excitable and pretty painful mouthing - probably down to pent up energy and just being a SBT not too fussed about either as we have more time to walk/play with her and the mouthing I think we can get out of her by distracting/yelping when she does it. But she was fab with the kids, as soon as one went near her she instantly calmed down and was very gentle. So the mouthing is the only real downside atm. Once she calmed down she was even more lovely.
Were bringing her back here on Thursday for a few days trial to check she likes us and that we can work with her to sort her out a bit, plus will give the current owner chance to check she's 100% about giving her up to us. She's beautiful, lovely blue/brindle type colour, lovely blue eyes, the small stature type staffy (so a 'proper' one) that I love and she has the most pretty face I've ever seen on a dog apart from Molly of course.
Question - if it turns out the owner can't find her microchip number is there any way of getting over this so we can register her to us? Ive had a quick look online but the info is a bit overwhelming and it looks like there are quite a few microchip companies. Worst case is the chip is registered to an older address so there's may be no way of the current owner even being able to give her details to all of the chip companies........surely this happens all the time e? (I'm being hypothetical here, I forgot to ask if the owner has the chip details and don't really want to bother her until Thursday but I'm a bit nervous that we won't, be able to register her to us, surely there's a way in these situations?)
Oh I'll be posting pics if I can get her to sit still long enough , shes stunning, not that Im interested in bloodlines but when the owner mentioned the parents I had heard of one of them from looking at Blue SBT breeders online, and she is a fabulous example of the breed. Not the long legged massive headed type you see that have been clearly crossbred with a horse at some point but the real short small stocky type, perfect for proper doggy rolling around with AND very cuddly and will fit nicely on my lap, well half on half off my lap anyway :)
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