Joelle and I have been talking about getting a dog for a while, and yesterday was the day Molly joined us in our family! She’s quickly adapted, even having a Facebook page already (really, a dogbook page, but same basic thing!)

We started our search at the Seattle Animal Shelter last weekend, but weren’t immediately drawn to any of their dogs. We quickly jumped on Petfinder.com (great resource by the way!) and did a search for other dogs available within a 3 hour radius; Joelle really wanted to find a dog from a rescue league or shelter rather and I agreed – adult dogs are much easier, plus it’s nice to be able to do a good deed by finding a dog who needs a home!

We were drawn to Molly immediately by her Petfinder posting (her old name was Mama, but that was only her name for 2 months), a rescue dog housed with the Washington German Shepard Rescue League (though she is not a German Shepard) and had a great series of back and forth emails last week with the League, the Foster Mom, and and the house-checker-outer, and last Tuesday, we drove up to Marysville to meet her; We were smitten right away by her looks, good behavior, and other temperance. She was going to be our dog!

Joelle had mistakenly called her Molly instead of Mama when we saw her, and was fixated on that name from then on. I really wanted a name with a Hebrew connection and sort of wanted a grandmother-esque name for some reason, so Molly works – while not the most Jewish name in the world, it at least tangentially comes from Hebrew – according to naming web-sites, it means wished-for child in Hebrew, so at least it is something!

Pictures obviously! Next post will be a write-up of our first day together… (Click on the picture for larger pictures)

Here are some pictures her foster mom (Kelly – thanks for everything!) had sent us of her playing with some other foster puppies on Friday:

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