Jess' New Family!
Well, the good news just keeps on coming. Liz Kracht from Amigos de los Animales forwarded an email to me from Jess' new family in Washington state. It sounds like patience definitely paid off for this boy and that he's in the perfect situation for him. Here are some excerpts from the email:
Hello Elizabeth! First and foremost, THANK YOU FOR SAVING JESS!!!!!!! I know this sounds selfish, but I'm glad that people were afraid of his "star" as my boys call it. He was meant to be our dog from the beginning! So again, thank you thank you! Our first week with Jess has been so full of love and excitement. Jess has quickly become a celebrity in our community here in Bellevue/Kirkland Washington. During the adoption process, the kids were going to school everyday, telling the kids there, about their new dog that was going to fly here from another country. They shared every icky detail and let me tell you. He has made friends with the neighborhood dogs. No more growling and barking just to get a sniff. They all get their sniffs in at the fountain (our neighborhood has a fountain where all the morning runners and walkers
stop for and drink from the fountain. Dogs too.) He has been to the baseball park 2 times now and doesn't quite understand why he can't throw a mit on and play too, but loves the attention he gets from everyone there.
I get cold nose on my face (just jumps right up on the bed) around 6:30 a.m. I get up, put my runners on and off we go. Then it's time for morning loves and snuggles as we wake up the grumpy guts (boys). It's been so much easier to get the boys to get up in the morning. Jess has become a pro at licking them to pieces to get them up. He gets a treat for each kid he wakes
up. So far, he is on the average of 2. Just my middle son he has yet to break!
It was hilarious the first day we dropped the boys at school. He was so mad at me! I thought
he was going to jump out the window after his boys. (They have fully become his boys too) He sat on the couch all day. Didn't want to play ball, go for a walk and getting him in the car to go get them was a chore. But as soon as he saw the boys getting into the car, tail was wagging and tounge was licking. Now, he still doesn't like dropping them off, but he knows when we are going to get them. Tail doesn't stop the entire ride there.
My husband Jason and Jess go for mini hikes through the woods and on Sunday, in the rain, went to hit golf balls. Jay loved that he didn't have to go pick one ball up. Jess brought them all back to him. I just wish he'd do that for me. He makes me run over to him to get the ball. He's telling me to stop being lazy and if I make him run after the ball, he'll make me run after it too!
Jess is staring to make peace with our kitty Gomez. Gomez is not a Jess fan yet, but is slowly realizing that Jess just wants to play. Jess is such a kisser. He loves to kiss n nip at ears. Any ear will do for him. He takes his stuffed toys, (any that the boys have) and will bring it up on the
couch and "nurse" on it until he falls asleep. It is so precious and almost heartbreaking at the same time.
I really think he feels so loved. There really hasn't been a moment that he has been alone. We left him for an hour an half last night to go to dinner and he did great. The neighbors said they could hear nothing so we assume he didn't have any barking fits. WE ARE SO PROUD OF JESS!!!!!!
I just keep telling Jess, "this is Jess' home, this is home".
Hello Elizabeth! First and foremost, THANK YOU FOR SAVING JESS!!!!!!! I know this sounds selfish, but I'm glad that people were afraid of his "star" as my boys call it. He was meant to be our dog from the beginning! So again, thank you thank you! Our first week with Jess has been so full of love and excitement. Jess has quickly become a celebrity in our community here in Bellevue/Kirkland Washington. During the adoption process, the kids were going to school everyday, telling the kids there, about their new dog that was going to fly here from another country. They shared every icky detail and let me tell you. He has made friends with the neighborhood dogs. No more growling and barking just to get a sniff. They all get their sniffs in at the fountain (our neighborhood has a fountain where all the morning runners and walkers
stop for and drink from the fountain. Dogs too.) He has been to the baseball park 2 times now and doesn't quite understand why he can't throw a mit on and play too, but loves the attention he gets from everyone there.
I get cold nose on my face (just jumps right up on the bed) around 6:30 a.m. I get up, put my runners on and off we go. Then it's time for morning loves and snuggles as we wake up the grumpy guts (boys). It's been so much easier to get the boys to get up in the morning. Jess has become a pro at licking them to pieces to get them up. He gets a treat for each kid he wakes
up. So far, he is on the average of 2. Just my middle son he has yet to break!
It was hilarious the first day we dropped the boys at school. He was so mad at me! I thought
he was going to jump out the window after his boys. (They have fully become his boys too) He sat on the couch all day. Didn't want to play ball, go for a walk and getting him in the car to go get them was a chore. But as soon as he saw the boys getting into the car, tail was wagging and tounge was licking. Now, he still doesn't like dropping them off, but he knows when we are going to get them. Tail doesn't stop the entire ride there.
My husband Jason and Jess go for mini hikes through the woods and on Sunday, in the rain, went to hit golf balls. Jay loved that he didn't have to go pick one ball up. Jess brought them all back to him. I just wish he'd do that for me. He makes me run over to him to get the ball. He's telling me to stop being lazy and if I make him run after the ball, he'll make me run after it too!
Jess is staring to make peace with our kitty Gomez. Gomez is not a Jess fan yet, but is slowly realizing that Jess just wants to play. Jess is such a kisser. He loves to kiss n nip at ears. Any ear will do for him. He takes his stuffed toys, (any that the boys have) and will bring it up on the
couch and "nurse" on it until he falls asleep. It is so precious and almost heartbreaking at the same time.
I really think he feels so loved. There really hasn't been a moment that he has been alone. We left him for an hour an half last night to go to dinner and he did great. The neighbors said they could hear nothing so we assume he didn't have any barking fits. WE ARE SO PROUD OF JESS!!!!!!
I just keep telling Jess, "this is Jess' home, this is home".
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