Our first baby

Technically, our first baby is Duke. The dog that nobody wanted.

After my dog, Ada, passed, I thought it would take a long time to welcome another dog into our home.  After about 3 weeks, I missed having a dog companion, so I looked into fostering a dog.  I found a local shelter that needed foster homes, as they were bursting at the rims with dogs in needs of home.  


Duke was one of those dogs.  He was transferred from a high kill shelter to this no-kill shelter as a puppy. There he stayed for all 10 months of his life. Nobody ever called about him or came to look at him, until me. I asked the shelter who needed the most love and they directed me to this big black dog.

Technically, I was fostering him, but as we drove away from the shelter, I was already in love with this big dog with those funny ears. Three weeks after that, we adopted Duke and made him an official part of our family.