Ruby Lou

I should write about Ruby Lou since she's my little furry BFF and I love to show off photos of her!

Like before mentioned, I've always been a little obsessed with animals, though in the years leading up to getting serious and getting married, I never really thought I would get a puppy as a newly wed...that lasted about 3 months! Haha.

In October of 2015 I began to seriously want a puppy. I'm not sure what exactly possessed me to start those childhood dreams up again, but there they were. Josh humored me and let me show him puppy photo after puppy photo on my phone as we lay in bed falling asleep.

Then came October 24th. It was a Saturday and I decided that I would go get the phone number off of the bulletin board at the grocery store up the road from our house while on the way to Lagoon Valley to run with my mom. I had seen an add for Australian shepherd puppies there a week before and I had kept thinking about it. So after grabbing the phone number, I started texting with the breeder and she sent me a photo of the cutest little red-tri aussie females. I was hooked but decided that I wanted to check out the pound first before heading to Elk Grove since I like the idea of adopting a rescue animal and I still wasn't sure we actually should get a puppy.

I spent our whole run talking my mom's ear off about wanting a puppy and I stopped all the dog owners we passed and asked them about their dog experience. I happened to pass TWO Australian shepherds and that fanned my puppy fever flame!

Well later that morning I met Josh at the local SPCA and fell in love with a little female dachshund/german shepherd puppy mix. I cried when we decided to leave without her. Like seriously cried. It was sad! But we didn't feel right about her at the moment and decided to think on it more.

That evening we went to a friend's wedding with Josh's parents in Old Sacramento. The whole time i was so anxious thinking about the meeting we set up with the breeder in Elk Grove to come check out the litter after the wedding! Josh's parents, being dog owners themselves were super excited to drive us on our puppy crazed adventure. We arrived at the ranch around 9PM and were smitten with the 11 little Aussie pups staring back at us from their pen! (From that day on I've regretted not taking photos of them! We were just so overwhelmed!) The breeders, Lea and Heather brought them all out to the barn and we got to sit there in our dress clothes (haha!) and play with all the fluffy little pups! I had such a hard time choosing between our little Ruby Red-Tri and her cute Blue Merle chunky brother. They were both so cute! Josh and stepped off on our own, each of us holding a puppy and tried to decide... Josh wanted Ruby and though I was obsessed with the little merle boy, I'd wanted a female over a male so we decided! Ruby-Lou it was! We ran to the bank, withdrew $350 bucks cash and left with a tiny fuzz ball and a bag of her food! I was in shock and totally smitten.

Till this day (only 5 months later, mind you ;}) I've never once regretted adding Ruby to our family. She is fun, beautiful, soft, hilarious and super active and smart, not to mention loyal. We love her so much and can't wait to eventually teach her our future favorite trick, babysitting!