Adopting a dog – Bringing Harmony home.

We visited the shelter on the Saturday, applied as we left and by Monday afternoon we had a call to say we had been successful and someone from the Waikato council would come round and check the place.
A note to remember when adopting a dog 99% of adoption centres will require you to to have a fenced in area.
By Thursday my fiancée was driving back up to Auckland to pick up our new dog. They de-sexed her that day so she was drugged and sleepy.

Within 4 days while working we had to run out the shops, 4 days before Christmas as well to add to it and get the basics for our new pup.
We knew we needed the essentials,

Leads
Collar
Crate

Food and water bowl
Toy.

We kept it simple for the start as it was hard to grab things in a rush and we didn’t know her personality yet.
We could not get dog food until we picked her up as we didn’t know what the shelter was feeding her. And a dog bed came the week after, but she was completely fine with her crate being from a shelter.
We didn’t splurge out on anything as we learnt that she drinks incredibly messily so we had to go and get her a new water bowl to cater that. We learnt that she didn’t fully know how to play with toys so we adapted what we bought her and taught her how to play slowly.

Her first couple of days she was unsure, sleepy, and cuddly as heck. Slowly we became a family as she learnt this was her new life. And for us being thrusted into this dog life meant there was no turning back. She was officially ours and I think the fact wed been talking about it for a while and thinking about it for years meant we didn’t second guess our option. There was no returning. She was ours to the end.