Welcome Peanut!

Our cats were 17 and 19 years old when they died this year. After they were gone, we thought we would take a break for a while, but it felt very odd to be pet-free. We are pet people.

We thought a lot about what we wanted to do. We decided that a dog would be our next pet. It was important for us to get a rescue or shelter dog. We started looking, and found our Peanut!

She is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. She is absolutely the sweetest thing. We had met Peanut right after she was rescued, but it was a few weeks before she joined our family. We kept her arrival a secret from the girls! Here Jia is coming home from school to the surprise:


Peanut was rescued from a puppy mill a few weeks ago. She spent her entire life confined there - as a breeding dog. Since her rescue, she has had good medical care (which included having five teeth pulled - poor thing! - and treating an infection), and been spayed.

She is doing surprisingly well given the conditions in which she was raised.



We've done a lot of research on puppy mill dogs. They can be very needy (she has been at my side all day), but she is already getting more comfortable.

She has never been on a leash. This will take some time. For now, she's happy to run around the back yard in a blur!


She is settling in. (Other than climbing down the stairs. She's scared of them! So we are carrying her for now.)

She turns six years old in two days! Happy birthday Peanut!