I love these two little rugrats. It’s kind of sad just how much.
I’ve had little Charlie for 4 and a half years. I got her when I was 18 and living alone. She’s been with me through so many different living arrangements, through heartache, and happiness. She has quite the little attitude, but her cuteness and companionship beyond makes up for it.
I officially adopt Belle Monday. I’ve been having her for a little over 3 weeks. She’s pretty bad in the puppy mischief sort of way. She has fulfilled a long time dream of mine to have a dog that I can take running amd swimming etc. She’s super smart amd it is awesome to see her learn more and more each day.
Having belle has been tough. She requires about 2 hours of exercise each day and she was sick when I got her and has since gotten Charlie sick. She’s still doing very poorly. But in a way I think these dogs are taking the place of my baby fever. I may never have children. And I’m 100% that I won’t in the foreseeable future. I love nurturing and taking care of them and teaching them and watching them grow. I love how happy they are to see me. I love sacrificing time and money for their wants and needs. I’m not sure if this makes me the weird dog lady but this is just how I see it.
![This cute, cuddly, innocent little puppy scared the shit out of me today. I’m sitting in traffic [about 4 cars from the light at the corner of riverside and 35 feeter rd for austinites] It’s about 5:45 so tons of traffic. I hear the bus behind me honk the horn, I look in my mirror and there’s a dog on the side of the road and I say oh wow there’s a dog right there. This was quickly followed by a double take to my back seat, realizing Belle is gone, trying to figure out how she got out, then realizing I have to get her right now. I freaked. There’s nowhere to pull off and in my panic I couldn’t find my hazard lights so I just got out and she started running forward and people were honking. So I got in my car drove up just a little then got out and ran again. At this point I could give a shit less that my car is blocking traffic and that I look like an idiot running through traffic panicking. It didnt take long for her to come to me, but it felt like forever.
How the hell did she get from the safety of my backseat to running through 3 lanes of traffic and an intersection? Well today I decided Charlie [my little pup] would come to Belle’s daily dog park visit. Charlie has a tendency to jump on the window buttons and she had done it as soon as we left and i just put it back up. It’s always the back right one that she steps on. Well apparently she did it again and I hadn’t realized. Belle just jumped out! She did this once when i first got her [in the parking lot of my apartment not in traffic] but I attributed it to being scared of the car. My heart was beating so fast. This single mom cannot take both pups out at once.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvg9u9d6OW1qbcq5oo1_500.jpg)
