Delta Dog Days Day 1

Back story:   I lost my beagle Lucy a year ago.   With all that happened I stepped back and did not decide to get another dog right away.   Well, about a month ago my son Andrew found the perfect adoptable dog on a rescue called "Almost Home".  She was about a year old and had 7 puppies.  The owner did not want to deal with this and fostered them to a wonderful family with 5 children (4 boys) and I applied.  I hit the jackpot but had about a month to wait for "Kiki" to wean the puppies.  Well......it happened 2 weeks before we had planned.  So....Thursday (after a trip to Traverse City for the weekend) we picked up Kiki.  This beagle "lamb" is about 15 months old and just barely stopped nursing her puppies and had to leave her Foster family.   So....she was so nervous.  Spent the day scouting our house, not eating, not drinking, barely walking on leash but.....started to settle.  Put crate in kitchen with her blanket and her bed in kitchen and tried to leave the room.  She cried and barked if she could not see me.  Bedtime.  Otto sat with her until about midnight and then went to bed.  She cried and howled so I slept on the couch with he bed next to me all night.  Day 1

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