Milestones

Well, I still haven't gotten back into blogging as much as I'd like, but I hope that I can start posting more often soon :) For now, just a quick update! I forgot to blog about Dobby's two special days!

Dobby' birthday was September 1- he turned 4 years old! The evidence is in his increasingly gray beard :)

and!

Dobby's gotcha-day was October 13! I've had my little buddy for 3 years now. Time flies when you're having fun. This picture is from the first time I ever met him at his foster mom's house. It was about 2 weeks before I brought him home with me.


I don't think I took any special pictures of him on his special days, but he got extra love and treats. We need to go to the pet store some time this week anyway, so he will probably get some fancy cookies!

I also look forward to posting our annual Halloween photo shoot!!! This year I even remembered to take pictures when we went to pick out pumpkins, so I'll post about that soon, too.

Much love!
Sharon and Dobby

About us

(Our first playtime)

Dobby and I are happy to have such a public way to share his cute-ness and I promise to stay out of the way, but here is a little bit about me and how I came to have Dobbs.

I am a recent college graduate and decided in the summer of 2007 that I was ready for the responsibility of having a dog. My family had had a Toy Fox Terrier and I was absolutely enamored with her- dogs can truly light up your life. So I decided to shop around, and eventually was visiting http://petfinder.com and http://www.1-800-save-a-pet.com daily searching for new dogs. Everyone I talked to said that I would just know when I had found the right dog, so I was patient and waited for the right one to turn up.

Early in October, I found 'Squirt' on Petfinder. I knew he was the one, and I applied immediately! I had previously applied for a few other dogs and it had taken weeks for other rescues to process my application, so I was thrilled when Melanie, Squirt’s foster mom, called me that very afternoon. She sang his praises loudly, and I was hooked.

Squirt’s foster home was near Charlotte, NC, which was a good 2 hour drive for me, but I went to visit him that weekend. The drive was worth every minute, and I fell in love with his little wiggling, whining self as soon as I met him.

Shortly after my visit with him, he was scheduled to be neutered and microchipped, so on October 13th I finally brought him home with me. He slept on the passenger seat the whole way home like a perfect little angel. That afternoon, trusting in his socialization at the foster home and self-confident attitude, I took him out on a little adventure to PetCo so that he could try on collars and help me pick out some toys. We came home with his mossy green collar/leash set and a little terrycloth hippo. I debated for almost a week on what to change his name to (Squirt is so emasculating) and after noticing that at certain angles his ears were just like the Harry Potter character, I named him Dobby. The rest is history!