for the last year i have been going to petfinder.com to locate various dogs i might be interested in adopting.  i haven’t gotten too serious, except i did send an application in for a dog named cowboy, but he got adopted while my application was in transit.

he was very cool looking.  he had the holstein hide of a cow, with a corgi head stuck to the top of it and all of it was in the shape of a corgi body.  it was hysterical.

i was sad for a little while, but happy that cowboy had a home.  i was ambivalent about getting another dog while still in this upstairs apartment, with only a partially fenced yard out back.  i have really been waiting until i get my house and have a six foot wooden fence put  up.

so, since i’m almost there in terms of the house, i have been trolling the petfinder again.

only this time i decided to deviate from the corgi.

several years ago, when emily and i still lived in albuquerque, we dogsat for her mother’s dog for a few days.  this dog was rather small and white.  it was a mix of poodle and terrier. her name was “pooh” but we called her mrs. farnsworthy.  she and hamlet really hit it off. they played so much together that they were often found frothing at the mouth with delirious happiness.  if i knew how to post a photo on this site, i would post the one emily took.  it’s a classic shot of mrs. farnsworthy wrestling with hamlet, but actually it looks like she’s just laying on top of him.  my dog isn’t that big, but he looks huge with the tiny mrs. f.  spread out on top.  she probably doesn’t weigh more than 8 pounds.  hamlet was very gentle with her because of her size, but she was plenty feisty.  i’ve never seen him so happy.

i’m not a fan of poodles, but mrs. farnsworthy was special cause she was a mix, and her personality won me over.  i’m not going to look for a poodle but rather a bichon frise, which means curly-haired pet in french.  it’s a small white dog with a pleasant playful personality.  i’ve seen one on the website which is a mix with poodle.  that would be perfect.

it’s kinda sad, cause there are really a lot of them available.  many have been rescued from the puppy mills.  i’ll be adopting an adult female, since hamlet is now an older gentleman, and needs a girlfriend around his age.

i’ll have to wait until after i get the house and move into it.  wouldn’t want to traumatize the new family member.  but i really can’t wait.