Leigh's building has a lot of stairs. The dogs can climb UP stairs, but they have trouble descending steep stairs and need to be carried down them (because of their midgety legs and long wienery bodies). Turns out that the easiest way to get both dogs downstairs for a walk is TO STACK THEM!
On Thursday night after work, we loaded this critter into her crate (Maddy HATE a crate!) and headed to Penn Station to catch the NJ Transit train to spend the holiday weekend with my family!
On my way out the apartment on Monday morning I walked into the living room and these two were just sitting on the couch like this side by side. Total buds.
It took her all of about 10 minutes to use her razor sharp puppy teeth (and tiny puppy raptor claws!) to create a puppy-sized hole in the gate's mesh that she could easily wriggle her way through! Most adorable jailbreak ever!
On Sunday afternoon, Scott brought Edie over to our apartment so she could meet Maddy. Maddy was as interested as she was concerned and kept getting chased in worried circles by Edie. Look at her eyes in this photo. Haha.
Aw, seriously? I called Roxane (the breeder) that day and confirmed that we wanted her. (Here's a link to Roxane's Daschunds if anyone is interested! She's was great and we highly recommend her!)
As soon as I saw this photo, I was like "THAT'S OUR DOG." Meredith was excited and was like "YES!" (Later, Meredith told me that she didn't think the dog was all that cute but she trusted my judgement. Haha).
One morning in early February, I mentioned to Meredith that her birthday was coming up and asked her if there was anything in particular she wanted. She turned to me and said, "You know, I don't know how much longer I can go without owning a dog. Can we get a dog already?" We'd been talking about doing it for years and it finally seemed like the right time! After falling in love with Leigh's dog Edie, I told Meredith that I really wanted to get a dappled miniature daschund.
After looking around locally for a couple of weeks without any luck, I finally found a daschund breeder in Kentucky with a dame that birth to a litter of dappled pups! After corresponding with her for a couple days, she sent us photos on Valentine's Day. Aww.
