Jul 04 2006
One away.
Well, we finally moved one of our foster dogs last weekend. Lexy was causing too much havoc in our house in order to keep her, so the Kentuckiana Pug Rescue found another foster home for her a couple of hours away east of Lexington.
She kept sparring with one of our dogs, Spike, and sometimes it would get bloody. During one fight, my wife tried to break it up by picking up Spike, but she ended up picking up both dogs because Lexy was biting Spike’s ear. There were many times when neither Jene nor I could sit on the couch because Spike and Lexy would fight over who would sit in our laps.
She is a very sweet dog who loved nothing more than to sit in my lap, or lick my face. While she was with us I tried go teach her to catch a ball out of mid-air and it probably would have happenned if she were with us longer.
But she is now with another loving family who will take care of her and treat her like family; this is all we could ask for. The youngest son of the family really like Lexy a lot; once we showed him that she likes to play fetch his eyes lit up and he was throwing the ball for her.
And while part of me knows moving Lexy was the right choice, it’s still hard to not feel like we failed in some way. We always said our dogs would come first, and that’s the way it should be, but I’ll still miss her.
That’s rough. There are some animals though who need one-pet families. Be glad that she was with you and Jene and you took the time to figure her out.