Mark is my pound puppy. My now husband and I had just
started to date and he had to put his Boston Terrier down, so it was a tough
time. I was working at Starbucks and going to school and the one day a guy came
through the drive thru with the cutest puppy ever. Of course I asked him where
this cute puppy came from and he told me the local shelter. So since I knew
where to find really cute puppies, I got home and immediately told my now
husband that we must go see! He wasn’t too thrilled at the idea at first
because he missed Odie but he eventually took me.
So we went to the shelter that the guy at the drive thru
said he got his puppy from, but they didn’t have any more left. There was
another couple there that was looking for an older dog and overheard us talking
and told us that at another shelter down the road, where they just came from, had
a bunch of puppies. So off we went!
We got to the other shelter, and to this day, I 100% guarantee
I could never get there again. It was in a really odd place and I remember it
being in the middle of nowhere. But anyways, there is where we found Mark! He
was in a cage that had another cage on top of it. It was just him and his
brother, but his brother kept barking. Mark just sat there looking so cute and
not barking, crying, anything. I felt so bad for him though because he had some
poop on his head because his cage was not the cleanest, so I just had to take
him home and give him a bath. (Side note – we made sure his brother got
adopted!)
So we adopted Mark, which can I just tell you seems like
more paperwork than adopting a child, and my now husband named him Mark Eaton
after his favorite hockey player. Mark became an immediate addition to our still
fairly new relationship, but he also helped us grow closer. I honestly believe
that every couple should have to take care of a puppy before they have a child.
You really get to see how each other is going to be with taking care of
something else, especially something that poops, pees, cries, gets dirty, needs
attention and wants to play when all you want to do is sleep.
We all have had special pets, but Mark has beat out any
others that I have had (or have). Don’t get me wrong, I love Axel (our other
dog) but Mark is mine and he stole my heart the first time I saw the poop on
his head!
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