My parents took in a puppy from a neighbor's accidental litter about a year and a half before I was born. This was Dudley. He was a little bit of everything, the mutt of all mutts. There weren't a lot of kids in my neighborhood so Dudley was my best friend. He died at the ripe old age of 18 on my 16th birthday. My heart dog.
As an adult there was very little I wanted more than my own dog, but work hours and renting just made it unfair to any potential pup, so we waited and waited until the right time. We finally bought our own place, but were still gone at work from ~6 to 6 every day. Finally, both of us started working from home and I went on the search for a breeder and eventually ended up with Thor. He's the first in what I think will be a long life of labs. But I'm so glad we waited until we had the opportunity to really spend time at home raising a puppy. I'm sad I missed out on so many years of having a dog, but I couldn't imagine trying to raise a lab puppy while working that schedule!
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Originally Posted by MightyThor
My parents took in a puppy from a neighbor's accidental litter about a year and a half before I was born. This was Dudley. He was a little bit of everything, the mutt of all mutts. There weren't a lot of kids in my neighborhood so Dudley was my best friend. He died at the ripe old age of 18 on my 16th birthday. My heart dog.
