Your Guess - The New Addition Is?

Once again, I am grateful and humbled by your sharing the loss of Baloo both here and on Facebook. The sadness and being a bit on autopilot as the "what if's and maybe I should have..." have been repeating over and over in my mind for our beloved Baloo. It can be a bit consuming. And it happens every. single. time.... I will question all of it in the days ahead. It's just how I'm wired and what I do. And I do it pretty well I have to admit! But I cannot say "thank-you all" enough for your friendship and for your kind and caring comments and your support that truly makes a difference!

I never did mention it, but we were in the process of adopting Baloo. But we were never able to sign his adoption contract. Time simply ran out. However, the adoption coordinator made it official anyway, meaning that we posthumously adopted Baloo, making him ours. I thought that was such a nice gesture because it means, at least on paper, that he had found a new forever home. 


We all know, like it or not, and ready or not, life has a way of going on. Carl returned home late last evening and said this morning that it's easy to see the hole left in our household by Baloo. Each of our dogs truly have their own place.

~Alf is starting to look shaggier every day!~

Even with our bursting household, for the last few weeks for whatever reason, I felt like we were missing a dog. So much so, that more than once, I got up in the middle of the night to make sure all the dogs were inside. I'll confess that I even cruised the internet looking at dogs. Even with all that, I'd decided that I was doing it only because a friend has just gotten a new puppy. Which by the way is totally (!!!) out of the question for us. 

~Shaggy Todd will agree about our not getting a puppy!~

I kept trying to shake that feeling. Despite "that feeling" it was a bit unexpected when another foster-home-coordinator, that I never work with, asked me to consider a new addition. I was worried about Baloo, so I asked her to try and find another foster home for this particular dog. But whether we are able to foster or not for the rescue, foster homes always get a list of dogs needing a place to go, that includes their information and photos. When I'd seen the list a few days before being asked, one dog caught my eye. When I received another updated list a few days later, the same dog caught my eye again. And it was the one I was being asked to foster. So, when another foster home couldn't be found for this dog, and I was asked a 2nd time, I agreed.

Since this post is a little long (sorry about that!) I'll post the picture and ask YOU which one do you think caught my eye, and which one did we welcome this past Wednesday? I'll let you know tomorrow, who is our newest addition.

I have a feeling, you'll be able to easily guess...