A New Dog

I got a new dog this afternoon. I had been thinking about getting a dog for a while and then yesterday I went to the Humane Society and looked at the dogs. My girlfriend immediately fell in love with this Beagle mix named Apollo. I however didn’t have the same feeling.

I don’t know if everyone knows that feeling I’m talking about, it’s that “double take” feeling when you walk by something, someone, perhaps a dog, and you have to turn around and look again. At that exact moment it’s like you eyes and emotions simultaneously connect and something draws you back. With a dog at a humane society, it’s that feeling I get and I just get that feeling in my head that says, “That right there, that’s my dog.”

It was 7 years ago when I last had that feeling at the St. Louis Humane Society. Except 7 years ago, I didn’t get the dog and was going to wait until the next week after my trip to Kansas City. Simply put, the dog was already gone when I came back. His name was Corky.

Back to the present, I got that feeling again today about the dog I picked up; I named him Brady.

He’s all white, if he were a girl I would have called her snow white. But then again, he is not a she so I guess Brady will have to do. For Christmas I’m thinking of getting a kids size Tom Brady Jersey for him to wear on Sundays. I’m not a big fan of the Patriots and really dislike clothes on dogs, but this would at least go.