in celebration of our anniversary, my dear sweet hubby gave me an amazingly awesome gift...his name is zeke :) and was a complete surprise.
my hubby, daisy, and i were on our way to spend the weekend with some dear friends (well daisy was going to be staying with hubby's parentals, but she was with us at the time). hubby decided to take the backroads because of traffic. i was somewhat familiar with where we were. but we turned around. then awesome hubby found some "old" directions in his pocket to a "church" he had visited recently...then we turned around again and hubby declared "i think we're lost." now im not super familiar with the town we were in...but i knew that indeed we were not lost, so i started to believe something was "up" so i slipped my shoes back on. we pulled up to a cute house is a small neighborhood and hubby said, "if you dont like it you have to tell me now." boy was i confused.
we were met at the door by this super awesome young lady who said "he's not ready yet" and then said, "well come on back to the bedroom i don't think he is coming out and by the way im probably going to cry." i told her i had no clue what was happening but i was probably going to cry too. when we walked into the bedroom zeke was just waking up from what seemed to be a nice nap. he looked at us like "whoa..who are you and what are you doing in my house?" apparently zeke was now mine!!
daisy had also come in to meet zeke and to make sure they would get along, and boy did they. they cultivated the mess out of the awesome young woman's yard (which by the way made it perfect for planting a garden :P ) while the pups played we talked and discussed zeke and his future. his owners had done an amazing job taking care of him and keeping him healthy! after about 15 mins of talking and getting to know zeke and his owner, zeke was mine!!
i never imagined i would own another dog like my sweet abbi that passed away several years ago, but zeke looks amazingly like abbi! he is stubborn like she was too!
we have now had zeke for three weeks now, and he has gotten pretty acclimated to us and us to him. here is what i've learned about our zeke...
:: zeke is a year and a half year old great dane puppy ::
:: he already weighs 100 lbs and will get up to around 140 ::
:: daisy is his best friend...he protects her greatly...like to the point of biting my father-in-law greatly ::
:: zeke is a bigger bed hog then me (is that really possible?) ::
:: zeke likes popsicles after runs ::
:: he drinks about a gallon of water a day ::
:: bird baths make the perfect outside water bowls for him ::
:: he will play with a ball/rope/stick if daisy is ::
:: zeke is scared of EVERYTHING...even the wind (and his wind too) ::
:: his nickname is buddy :) ::
:: his middle name is onyx ::
:: he bites his nails ::
:: he sheds as much/more than daisy ::
:: he can reach our bar-height table with great ease ::
:: he has to go outside at 5:30 every morning...i mean EVERY morning ::
:: when he needs to go out he hits the door with his paw...he doesnt scratch it, but literally hits it with the side of his paw ::
:: zeke has puppy acne on his chin...im not supposed to pop it...i really want to pop it ::
:: he loves loves LOVES the hose ::
:: zeke refuses to be still for pictures ::
:: he sounds like a horse when running ::
:: it takes 3 1/2 towels to dry zeke after a bath ::
:: he loves me ::
:: he loves face rubs...like to the point of pushing your hand out of your pocket and sticking his face under your hand ::
:: he likes to run ::
:: he likes to sit on feet ::
:: he thinks he can fit in a one foot gap on the couch...and will wiggle and turn until he does...though his wiggling and turning actually moves us over :P ::
:: we cant take him fishing under the bridge...the cars crossing the bridge scares the mess out of him and he tries to hide...but...he cant ::
:: he squats to go to the bathroom ::
:: if we are petting daisy we must be petting zeke too (we will "errr" at us if we dont) and vise versa ::
:: it took zeke over a week to learn that he cannot sleep on our bed with us at night...there just isnt enough room ::
:: he "erred" at us many nights to try to convince us to let him on the bed ::
:: we lost a LOT of sleep to his "erring"...but he sleeps on the floor now...well at least until i leave for work ::
:: zeke and daisy's favorite place to play is in our bed...zeke lays down and daisy stands while they try to put each others face in their mouth and wrestle ::
:: zeke is calmer then daisy ::
:: puppy love is so sweet ::
:: who needs kids when you can have super awesome dogs like daisy and zeke ?(did i really just say that?!?!?)...oops... ::
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