Neural Soup

Well I’m proud to say, it’s started!

Some of you may know already that one of the reasons I chose a golden retriever for my dog is so that one day I can play frisbee with her. (Frisbee is in fact the best way you can play catch, or throw.)

Anyway, Mindy and I were playing quite a bit over the weekend with her flying squirrel frisbee like toy, and twice she was able to jump up and catch it out of the air. We’ll be playing frisbee in no time! It was pretty exciting I must admit. (The other thing I must admit is that I think it has more to do with how good the throw is, than how good the catcher is. I’m going to get lots of practice!)

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Mindy Update:
She’s doing great! Was 52lbs last Monday! Can you believe that?
She got all her junk removed, and is now all healed up… I’ve been wanting to take her to the park and we haven’t been able to.

No new tricks or commands lately, we’ve been working hard on her recall (‘come’) and she’s pretty good with it. My next challenge is to really tackle ’stay’. She’s not 100% with it now…

She is definitely starting to look like a big dog!
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Today Mindy and I went to Balboa park for the first time. Yesterday, we went to the vet again, for her second round of shots and stuff. Mindy is now 19lbs! It really is amazing how fast they grow… it’s almost like if I watch hard enough I can see it happen right before my eyes.

Anyway, the Vet said she was comfortable with Mindy pretty much going anywhere now, so now I have some serious socialization to do with her. We started off by going to take some pictures of the roses in the Balboa Park Rose garden. Pretty fun stuff, it is fun to take her out to meet people.

I was dying when her reaction to the rose garden was to leave a big steamer right in the middle of the sidewalk. I turned around to take a picture, and I’m thinking, “man for a rose garden, it sure does smell shitty here.” Turn around and voila! So funny…!

But anyway, it was great fun… and she met a bunch of new people. I’m on a mission to find a horse for her to meet… I’m dying to get a picture of her nose to nose with a horse.

WOW! I must admit, this is alot of work! But there is nothing like having an oh-so-soft bubbly bundle of puppy to play with, and then later cuddle up next to you to take a nap. That first time that she stuck to my side looking to me for protection from the unfamiliar vet table, now that was about the most precious thing ever.

Anyway, I have been hoping to do more updates, but honestly, by the end of the day, I’m just exhausted and lying quietly in a chair sounds way better than sitting down to do some typing.
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I discovered tonight that Mindy means “Honey” with origins in Greek. That pretty much cinches it for me. What could be better for a honey colored, sweet Golden?

So, it’s settled… I’ll name my pup Mindy!

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Today I went to meet my puppy for the first time, and to pick between “Lady” and “Minnie”. Before we went there, we called Cheri (the breeder) and had her remove their collar ribbons so that I would choose the puppy that I really bonded with, instead of what my Mom and Cheri thought.

They were both really sweet and cute. Lady crawled into my lap almost immediately and promptly went to sleep Minnie was very curious and spunky. Eventually my Mom picked up Lady so we could see if Minnie would settle down in my lap too, and sure enough, she promptly cuddled up and went to sleep. In the end, I decided that Minnie was a better fit. Cheri thinks she’ll take after her mom more than her dad… which is good, because Jewel (the mom) is much more athletic, and likes to play catch. (You should have seen how easily she would grab a tennis ball outta mid air… no waiting for the bounce or roll for her.)

So… it was very exciting morning and I can’t wait until I can take her home with me. My Mom claims that she already looks like me.

Now it’s all about picking the name! At the moment, the names rolling around in my soup are:
Mindy, Genie, Sunshine (Sunny), and Maya… any suggestions?!