Every once in a while your heart cannot help but to fall in love, become attached and be ready for a life time commitment. As soon as I picked him up – as soon as I held him close and as soon as I looked into his eyes – we were one. His sweet kisses, the way he nuzzled my neck and when he fell asleep in my arms – Yeah, I knew…he was mine. Pure, unconditional love comes in a few different forms – this one is the best of the best as I know he will never judge me for the way I look – how annoying I can be or even how much money I have. All he’ll care about is my love, affection and attention. Of course food, water, treats, a roof over his head and a walk for exercise will be much appreciated. We took only a week to pick out a name for our cute, new, little PUPPY!!!!!

We were going over names like Rocco – but that reminded Scott of a cartoon kangaroo. Scott’s doggie who passed away last summer was named after a national park up in Canada – so Tom, Scott’s brother, brought up a few of the other national parks in that area. They all sounded pretty good – but a painful reminder of who we lost no too long ago (Jasper). Like I said before we are not replacing him – we could never do that – we are only adding onto our family. The Canadian national park name idea made it seem like we were replacing him… (they were cool names though!) Scott’s mother and I were chatting on AIM one evening and going over names – kinda being silly about them. She said, “Nothing too tough – you want him to be kind and gentle around Sam.”

So then names like Tinker-Bell and Snookums came up – she said gentle not lame. SO, then she wrote, “No, something like Baxter would be cute.” That was it! As soon as I read it off the screen I knew that was the name for our new little guy!!! I began to yell the name out loud – to tell Scott and to hear myself say it. Scott’s response was, “Yeah, that sounds like a good one.” Over the rest of the week we talked about it – but I truly think the fact that my mother hates the name so much made Scott really think about it – and then love it.

Yesterday (Friday) when we went to visit our little fella – it was the true name test – if it didn’t fit, we were going to have to rethink “Baxter” for his name. Oh my gosh! as soon as we saw him – we knew it was the right choice! He looks like a Baxter. YAY!

Baxter Schrantz was born on February 6, 2006 to a Corgi mommy named Annie and a Border Collie daddy – gigolo (this guy not only knocked up Annie – but her sister Corgi as well. The two bitches gave birth 9 hours apart!) On February 24, 2006 Baxter was adopted by US! We just cannot wait to take him home! At the end of April – after we come back from our spring break vacation to Southern California – we’ll go get our little guy! Ebony will get to meet him in two weeks! That’ll be exciting – I know she’ll love him, take him under her wing and teach him all her bad habits (not too many – she’s a good girl). We love our animals so much and we know they love us just for who we are – animals are the BEST! Welcome to our family Baxter!

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