We got a dog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
His name is gatsby. He's so cute! He's a lab mixed with some sort of long, short hound. He's very affectionate. I really love cuddling with him. He loves to cuddle and to be petted. There's a chair in our house that he loves, and he just jumps up onto it and sits in it for hours. We call it the Gatsby chair. Whenever we go out and leave him at home he'll bark and bark and bark and scrape at the window. But when we get back he'll be so excited and jump up on us and make us pet him and rub his belly, and he loves it.
He loves to play, especially fetch. There's one toy in particular that he loves to play fetch with. It's a little blue rubber toy, and it's shaped like a dinosaur with no head. It bounces so he likes to try to push it down with his paw. He also loves tug-of-war. He's really strong. He'll pull and pull and pull until you have to let go.
I did a nose print of him where we put green food coloring on his nose, and we put a piece of paper on his nose. We had to do it a couple of times before I got a good one that wasn't smudged.
We're planning on getting another dog as a playmate for Gatsby because he loves to play with other dogs. The place where we got Gatsby from is a place where they go out to Georgia and take dogs from high-kill shelters there and bring them to stay in foster families in New York. We are going to get another dog from them, but we don't know what one yet. We asked about a dog named Snoopy, but they said he got along with other girl dogs, but not really with other boy dogs. So we might get a puppy from them because they have these tiny, tiny puppies. But we're not sure yet. And also DaeDae, my pretend big sister, is coming to stay with us for two months, and she has a dog.
I love Gatsby, and we're having a lot of fun with him. It's fun having a dog.
