Meet Stella!

Our next exciting addition is a four legged terrorist named Stella. Her nickname is a bit harsh, it depends on the day and how frustrated I am. Today is a frustration day. There is nothing better than eating your breakfast at the table and getting a whiff of something not so pleasant. I look around and find a pile of pooh in the corner of our living room on white carpet. Not to mention, last night....she normally sits on our front lawn for hours just looking around and chewing on a bone (which is very amazing for a puppy and she mislead us on how good she was). Last night, she was no longer on the front lawn, so I searched all around our house for her, yelling her name nicely. I wandered to our neighbors and I see this little apricot dog head peeped over their bushes with her face caked with dirt and mud. It was actually really funny, but I couldn't let her know that. She had dug a hole in our neighbors empty flower bed. I frantically grab her and quickly use my hands to fill their hole back up with dirt. After, I begin to tell her how bad she is and spank her butt, within a minute she is wanting to play and has forgotten the entire thing just happened. I hope the neighbors didn't see me out their window! :)




To back up a bit, I have been searching for a Labradoodle or Goldendoodle for months. After a bit of convincing J that a Doodle dog would be a good choice, he agreed that we could get one after our race in June. We had planned to pick one up in Idaho or Washington. Many breeders that I found were very expensive! I had also been looking at the local listings just to see what was out there. In the past 3 months of daily searches, I had never seen a Doodle listed in Anchorage. To my surprise, about 2 weeks ago I saw a posting for apricot Labradoodles that would be ready on June 1st and their price was the cheapest I found anywhere. The timing of this puppy could not be worse for Jason and I as we are leading up to our major race of the year, but how could we refuse! We went to Big Lake to pick out our puppy (which took awhile, it was a toss up between her and a boy....but she won us over on how sweet and calm she is). The breeder said that the puppies were no longer feeding from their mom and that we could take Stella home with us immediately. It was a quick decision, but we went for it.

It has been a bit of a chore trying to balance a puppy and training, but we are lucky that she really is good for 95% of the time. She rides around with Jason all day and hasn't destroyed anything major YET. She's also pretty independent so she will sleep alone and go outside by herself. If we could just change her 4-5AM wake up time!!! And her pooping on the white floor!!!!!!!!!!

We love her though, she's wrapped around Jason's finger!