Luckily, I made it back to dry land without getting pummeled. I made friends with this handsome beach hound and watched my cousins and Gove rip it up for the next hour. HUMBLED!
We parked the car in Ubud and started wandering around looking for a place to stay. While we were on the steps of a museum, this happy little stray puppy came over to say hi to us.
Wiggle wiggle! Her breath smelled awful. Leigh best described it as smelling like "when you skin your knee skateboarding and smell the wet bandage." Hahaha. Ewwwww.
Leigh was out of traveling when we got Maddy and we'd been sending her puppy pics while she was on the road. When she got back in town three weeks later, she was excited to meet the little bean.
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!
Our Stuytown apartment had so much open space that it was difficult to train Maddy to go to the bathroom on puppy pads. On Tuesday night, I ran out and bought one of those wooden gates so we could keep Maddy quarantined to the hallway while we were gone.
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.
See? It was so unbelievable. This photo looks totally staged with her little paw draped over my shoulder, but this was how she wanted to ride right from the get-go. It was about this time that we realized we'd gotten a weirdo.
As soon as we got her into the warmth of a cab, she stopped with all the strange mewling noises she was making and immediately settled down. We were trying to hold her on our laps, but she kept climbing up and wedging her self between our backs and the seat. It seemed like she really wanted to sit perched up on our shoulders.
She arrived wrapped in a blanket inside a tiny crate. We took her out and she was cold, shivering and making adorable "mewling" noises. We took her out of the crate and she was delighted to be with us immediately. We couldn't get over how cute she was.
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).
About an hour after we'd finished lunch, the rain finally stopped and we headed back out onto the beach where we made friends with a very friendly, albeit very bitey and very smelly beach puppy!
Sarah and Brandon had just gotten their dog, Monkey! They were both preoccupied so Meredith and I got to spend a lot of time babysitting her! Look at her chubby little pink puppy-belly!
