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Buying a Puppy

| Thursday, May 14, 2009

I've settled into my new apartment and have recently started a new job. The next thing on my to-do list was getting some company. This is my first time living alone ever and while I'm getting used to it (and frequently have friends over), I just couldn't resist the urge to get a dog.

I had considered many different breeds and did quite a bit of reading. In the end, I had narrowed it down to a few pure and "designer" breeds including pugs, puggle (pub x beagle), pugalier (pug x cavalier king charles), samoyed, labradors and golden retrievers. And yes, I know there is quite a variation between the beginning of that list and the end.

In the end, I saw a litter for sale of a combination just too good to refuse: a samoyed crossed with a gold retriever (a "samriever" if you like).

I put a deposit on "Tigger", a male samriever about 2 weeks ago. He's about 4 weeks old now, and he'll be coming to Melbourne in a couple of weeks. He's a picture I just got from the breader.


5 comments:

Mike Hansford said...

Tigger??? Oh come on!

Anonymous said...

Cute! So are you planning to bonsai it to keep it small?

Mike Hansford said...

Bonsai a dog?!?! Interesting...

David Malmberg said...

This is actually a picture of our pup Alexandra!. The breeder sent us this exact image.

She is very cute although mischievious!.

How is Tigger?

She must be Alexandra's sibling.

Scott Arbeitman said...

@David, you must be correct because Tigger wasn't so white.

As it turns out, I had to sell Tigger just a few days after I got him as I could not handle a new puppy, a new job, and studying several nights a week. I will try again when I have more time, which is likely to be in a couple of years.