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If you were to ask me one thing my parents did right in raising me as a child, my answer would be an immediate "They raised me with pets!" Most of my happy childhood memories involved me with a whole buncha dogs, two cats, a few lovebirds, and some fishies. But my favorite was always a Collie dog I grew up with (just picture an overweight Lassie because he had a Filipino diet). Whenever I was scared, he was there to comfort me. When my parents were tired from work and wanted to watch TV, I would just go to the backyard and my fat dog would greet me and play with me. One day I was curious about what it would feel like to be bit by a dog so I stepped on him on purpose and cried when he bit me real hard...lol. After he died of worms, I had a couple of other dogs: a mutt, a shih tzu, a blind AND deaf poodle, a lab retriever....It wasn't until my parents divorced when I was 7 that I wasn't allowed to have pets anymore. So I've suppressed this longing for a dog until I got married.....AND NOW IT'S OUT, FULL FORCE!!!!!!! MAN I LOVE DOGS!!!!!! Here are a thousand photos of our first pet as a married couple: 


This is a picture of our dog Dipper when we first brought him home. He was scared and always stayed in corners away from us.

Here is Kevin trying to show Dipper his crate, but you can tell that he's still scared and unfamiliar with his new home.
It took Dipper like 10 minutes before he even took a small bite of his first meal with us. We got him when he was 10 weeks old.
Dipper taking his first few sips of water.




Here's Dipper with me outside as we tried to potty train him. He's obviously a lot more comfortable now!



Kevin was not amused by Dipper's lack of cooperation with leash training. Haha!!!
In order to keep him from running around the house, we actually place him onto our sofas to sit and chill with us.
Here is Dipper asleep on the couch. He reminds me of Mr.Tumnus from Chronicles of Narnia lol

This is Dipper next to me RIGHT NOW as I type this blog...he's way bigger, napping again, and somehow wrapped his tail around his toy ball! His head is also just hanging off the sofa.




And to save the best for last....

Bye bye! Hope you enjoyed this blog full of photos of our pup!!!!







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