She Has Arrived

My pup has been born! I got a phone call from the breeder yesterday informing me that he had a female pup for the taking and that he had sent me pictures of her so I could take a look and see if we were interested. I immediately went out and checked my email to take a peek at the pup affectionately dubbed, "Lorna." Yes, her name will change ASAP, and that will be addressed later in this blog entry. After viewing the sweet little puppy pictures below, I called the breeder back to ask what number she was in the litter, hoping she was the runt, but alas, she was born right in the middle. I had hoped for the runt because they are usually the smartest and snuggliest dogs, but the fact that she is not the runt can be got over. Maggie is the runt in her litter, and I picked her out when she was only 3 weeks old. The thing that is funny to me is that the new pup looks the same size at a few days old as Maggie did at 3 weeks.

Now the moment you've been waiting for, pictures of the new pup:

I love the fact that her white collar doesn't go all of the way around her neck. Maggie's doesn't either. I also love the fact that this pup's white socks go all of the way up her arms. In many ways this pup reminds me of Maggie's half sister, Roo.

Can you believe that they come so small?!

She almost looks like a little guinea pig. What a sweet baby.

Now for the naming. I know that my poll showed the favorite name for the new pup was Molly, and we had every intention of naming her Molly, but have decided against it for a couple of reasons; the first being whenever I thought of the new pup, I kept thinking of her as Sadie. The second reason is that we thought Molly might be too phonetically close to Maggie, and the dogs would get confused. Hubs doesn't care for the name Sadie, and truth be told, I don't like where I got the name.

I will post the full story tomorrow in a post completely dedicated to my first Border Collie, Roo, who was a very, very special pooch. But to keep from going into a long story now, I got the name Sadie from the day that Roo died. I was sitting in the vets office just after I had let her go, and the nurse came in with a book of options so I could choose what I wanted to do with Roo's body. I chose cremation so that I could always keep her with me, and in this book was a page where I could pick the box I wanted to have her put into. The name on the box in the picture was "Sadie." I really like the name Sadie, but I am afraid it will always remind me of the day the Roo died. Hubs and my little brother both voted against Sadie for that reason, which leaves us with Sidney.

Now I turn to my blog friends and readers again. I know you have all already voted on the puppy's name, but I hope you all understand the reason for putting the name to a vote again. This time there are only two options that are not phonetically close in sound to Maggie, and they are Sadie and Sidney. I am torn because I really like the name Sadie, and I like it better than Sidney, but I am afraid it will remind me of the day Roo died. So please take a moment and hit the poll one last time to help me make the final name decision.