Today marks 2 months since we adopted our puppy McCloud, nicknamed “MC” (left side of the photo). He’s now 4 months old. Our other dog Lotus is 2 years old.
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One part exhaustion, two parts joy
The title really says it all. And the photo. I took this picture in the car when we drove home from the shelter. With our new puppy! Isn’t he a cutie? he’s also the most tiring thing I’ve ever experienced. Right now I’m so worn out that I’m not sure I can write coherently. Anyways…
Continue readingHow I became a dog person after two decades of fear
If you saw me with my dog Lotus today, you would never guess that I used to be terrified of dogs.
Actually, terrified is an understatement. Ever since I can remember, I had a deep phobia of pretty much all animals. Cats freaked me out and rodents made me squirm. Birds and reptiles … forget it. Fish were the least offensive, but I still shied away at the thought of touching one.
Continue readingFrom the muddy mess of 2020: A Lotus blooms
More than anything, my boyfriend Sung wanted to get a dog. It was all he talked about at the beginning of the pandemic. Apparently shelters were set to run out of animals any moment because everyone wanted to shelter in place with a newly adopted pet.
“Later, later,” I kept telling him. Privately, I thought, “are you nuts? How can we be responsible for a dog when we barely know what we’re doing with our own lives?”
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