Welcome Otis

Well, we did it. We got a dog. We weren’t planning on getting a dog anytime soon but then we saw this news clip. Emily and I saw the dog and decided to call and find out about him. We called the animal shelter and they weren’t open yet but told us it was first come first serve. So, Isaac and I jumped in the car and headed to Salt Lake.

As soon as the shelter opened I called them again and they took my name down to let others know we were on our way. When we go to the shelter there was another lady looking at Otis. When she was done they let Isaac and me look at him. We decided we liked him and went to the front desk and told them we wanted to adopt Otis. Well, just as I started filling out the paper work the other lady walked up to the front desk and said she wanted Otis. They told her that I was adopting him. The other lady went off on them saying how she was told it was first come first serve and that she was “getting screwed by them” and that they better change their policy before they “screw somebody else”.

It turns out that their first come first serve policy says that if someone from out of county calls and says they are on their way then they will be considered first. Since I was out of county I was considered the first.

Otis has now been with us for almost and week and we are getting used to having him around. The boys are excited to have a dog. He does like to run away sometimes which means we need to close off a hole between our fence and the neighbors fence.

Otis is a really mellow dog. Most of the day he lays around. He has only used our house as a bathroom twice and that was in the first couple of days. He is doing better now.

Otis does do one trick. He can stand on his hind legs. The picture above shows it put you can’t tell very well since I was getting him to stand and take the picture at the same time.