Meet Sophie

The story behind our newest addition:

My friend Heather was looking through craigslist.com for people who might want her kittens and she came across an ad for a soft coated wheaten terrier. She knew I had wanted one since before we even had Tatum. I would take the kids I used to nanny for to the mall and we would go to the pet store and I would always find a soft coated wheaten terrier sitting in his/her square box hoping for someone to adopt them. The thing is, we've always been Boxer lovers, but I've always wanted a soft coated wheaten terrier. She is 15 months, spayed, shots current, micro-chipped and supposedly house trained. The family who adopted her from the pet store (yes, the pet store ugh) have pretty much kept her in a crate because they were afraid she would hurt the kids and didn't want to take the time to train her. She just had another new baby, so that's when she told her husband they had to get rid of her. She's really sweet, but pretty pathetic due to the fact that she acts just like a new puppy. We are definitely looking into getting her properly trained due to the fact that she likes to knock down the kids and doesn't even know how to sit. She also will run if she is in the front yard off of a leash (which Bailey never did). She has already tried to chew a few books and a binky or two, so this will take some work. Once she's properly trained, she will be an excellent dog. I'm just glad we could take her away from the situation she was in (not to mention she was on a pretty crappy brand of dog food). Our kids are pretty terrified of dogs because we haven't had any in the house for so long, so we knew it was time to add one to our family. It just worked out perfectly! There was a $200 re-homing fee for her to weed out people who would resell her to make a profit (she's hard to find since people don't breed her type in Arizona..more like Idaho or a colder state). They just wanted her to find a really good home. We are trying to teach her about the doggie door and she still doesn't understand it (we've only had her since last night). She is not a small dog..more of a medium dog. Daryl weighed her and she's about 25 lbs. The one good thing about the family whom we bought her from is that they kept all of her paperwork, like her papers, her micro-chip transfer info, shot records, etc..etc...She did take her to the groomers about every 2-3 wks too (I don't think we will be able to afford that, but we will keep up on brushing her and bathing her in between groomer visits). We locked her in the kitchen last night with her new bed (which she didn't sleep on) and her food and she did pretty well. The owner said that she will pee on the carpet if she went on it (she hasn't so far). Well the majority of our house is carpet, so good thing we dog proofed our house back when we had our boxers. She had one pee accident last night on the tile and she's knocked Corbin down a couple of times this morning already. We did pull an Angelina Jolie and changed her name to Sophie from Dugan since we just didn't like that name for a little girl. Oh, and did I mention she doesn't shed!