Spike.

We have a puppy! A few weeks ago Mel, Micah, Levi, Sirjen and I were driving into Dehradun to run a couple of errands. The boys were getting kind of restless in the car and so Mel made up a game. She told them to count all the animals that we passed. So, because of this, we were all looking for animals. A couple minutes later she and I saw a cute little black puppy on the side of the road. No words were exchanged, but somehow we just both kind of knew what the other was thinking. And we were thinking the same thing. She pulled over and I jumped out, asked the monks (we found Spike in front of the monastery :)) if it was ok if we took him or if he already had a home (he clearly didn’t), grabbed the dog and jumped back in. After about two minutes had gone by and the realization that we just picked up a puppy that is now a responsibility to take care of forever set in, there were a few "why did we just do that??"('s) voiced. But we all knew we wanted to keep him. Micah called Dave to get the final ok and the conversation went like this. "Hey papa, guess what? We caught a puppy! Can we keep him?" Dave said yes, so after our errand we grabbed some puppy food and headed home. Micah affectionately named him Spike.

Upon returning home we discovered that the mystery bugs crawling ALL over him the entire time I held him on my lap in the car, were lice. Literally hundreds and hundreds of them. The poor little guy was covered in them. Lovely. So needless to say, we very quickly put him in a bucket and bathed him. Then treated him for his nasty lice, which I'm so thankful I didn’t get. I think one of the only things worse then getting lice, would be getting lice from a dog :) Gross.

For the 1st 6 or 7 hours we thought maybe he was the perfect puppy. He didn’t poop or pee inside at all, didn't whine, didn't chew stuff up etc. He was great and pretty stinkin' cute.

Then came night. A howling, whimpering puppy in your bathroom (that’s full of poop and pee) at 2am when you're trying to sleep isn't quite as cute all of a sudden. He is now an outside dog. Both during the day, AND at night. He got himself kicked out to the front porch pretty quick. All in all he's a good little puppy though, and he entertains Micah and Levi for hours during the day. They love playing with him.

So anyway, Spike the puppy now has a safe, warm home full of lots of rough little boy love. I’d say he’s pretty content here with us.


isn't he cute?