A New Addition to Our Family!!

No, we aren't having a baby. BUT as of this evening, we are new parents to a 12 week old puppy we have named Scruffy!!

Since we arrived in the Philippines we have known that we wanted to get a puppy. We weren't allowed to have one at our first apartment. Now that we live at the condos we are able to have a precious pet!

SO, over the last few weeks we have been on the puppy search. We were excited to learn about an animal shelter they have here named PAWS (Philippine Animal Welfare Society.) Unfortunately, when we went to visit, hoping to rescue a sweet puppy, they only had bigger dogs, and none of them were truly puppies. Also, most of these "native dogs" (mutts) of the Philippines are medium to large size. We hoped to find a small one, but we haven't been able to find any at all.

Next, we began the pet shop search. This has been, if we are near a pet shop we go in it. All of the dogs in the petshops are pure bred dogs. Not at all a requirement or desire for us. We have visited a few, but none were in our price range of what we were willing to pay. UNTIL, on our way home from work today we stopped at a small pet shop in a mall close to our house. They were able to give us a great deal on our priceless bundle of fluff! (who happens to be a shitzu)

Here I am with Scruffy right after we left the petshop!!