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Andi
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May 21st, 2009
This is my darling little Andi, my new little cockapoo puppy. She was born on February 9th, 2009 and when we adopted her on April 23rd, she weighed 4.5 pounds. Today
May 29th she weighs 8.7 pounds and she's happy and healthy and growing up so fast I can hardly believe it. And what a smart little girl! She uses the doggie door
everytime she needs to go potty (a HUGE milestone), and she can sit, lay down, stay, say please, give me her paw, give me high five and give me high ten. As you can
imagine, everyday is loaded with new fun things we do together.
Here's how we added Andi to our lives.
Bailey, my sweet almost-17-year-old cockapoo, had just died in my husband Bill's arms on Monday, April 20th, and I was totally devastated and still sobbing at my desk three days later. Bill thought that getting another dog right away was exactly what I needed to get over losing my little Bailey so he said Linda, let's just look at cockapoo
websites. I had a cockapoo website on my computer for years and I showed it to him through my tears and he asked where are these people? Well, they could have been in
Kansas for all I knew but I looked and unbelievably, there was a phone number with a local area code. Bill said, "Call them!" and I did and the lady said she
had two 10-week-old cockapoo puppies and we made an appointment to see them at 5 that evening. On the way there, I said to Bill we're only looking, ok? And he said ok.
But at
9 that evening, he wrote a check and signed the papers and we drove home with this puppy in my arms. I was numb. In my sleep-deprived, grief-impaired state of mind,
Bill and I had adopted an infant. Holding this little bundle of fur, Bill and I talked as we drove home but inside I kept asking myself, "What have we done? An
infant. I'm still heartbroken over my sweet little Bailey. How can I possibly love another dog... a puppy... that I don't even want?"
Well, love is an amazing thing. I found that you can love someone you have lost who owned your heart and soul for 17 years and cry until you think you have no more tears, while
at the same time you can love someone you have known for only hours... days... who makes you laugh at the same time you're crying. Love is an amazing thing. It hurts you at the same
time it heals you. And so I've moved on with Andi always at my side.
I'm so fortunate that I live in the digital camera age because I can take lots and lots of photos of Andi and put them on my website and you can see her grow up too.
Come back often, I'll be adding new photos every week.
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