Meet Chicken, our Poodle Puppy!

(Fri Apr 02 2021)

Poodle?

A few years back browsing online, I saw these memes of dogs that also looked like fried chicken 🍗 and that’s how I got hooked with the poodle breed! (See:poodle or fried chicken)

Not to mention it perfectly fits my branding 🐣

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This was a part of our plan, but I didn't imagine it possible right now (same with building our dream house but ok AJ). We have a lot of bills to take care of monthly, plus we still have a long list of things to improve and buy for the house.

So this is another blog on how persistent AJ can be 🤗

I wasn't ready

Growing up I had a few dogs and I never learned how to take care of them after play time. My relatives still call me out every time my previous dogs become the topic 🙉.

The last one was Max (ok he was my sister’s dog). At first we were okay with him. But mama hated him and the smell so much, he ended up stuck in his tiny cage. Max didn’t like it so he started barking non stop, irritating mama more. It was so bad. We were so bad at this. We ended up giving him away ☹️.

So this why I know it will be a big responsibility to get another dog, despite all the fun. This is why I know I am not ready because I can't make those mistakes again, specially now that it's just AJ and me in the house with no help.

Story time

But AJ wanted one right now. And that’s really all it took 💁🏻‍♀️. He started joining Facebook groups all about dogs and browsed them every night. It wasn’t long before he found puppies we can get. Or before he found a lot of them.

I kept on reminding him why we should wait a little longer; our bills, the smell, the responsibility. He didn’t care, he just wanted a dog now 😂. He enjoys being productive and he runs out of things to do at night or during the weekends, and that's already with me not helping enough with our chores 😴. He liked the idea that a puppy will make him busy. Eventually I got excited too. We both know that at this stage, he just needs to get me to be impulsive, which wasn’t really that hard.

We started asking around because I wanted to know how much we should prepare. As it turns out the prices were 👀👀👀👀.

In the end the timing was perfect. We fell in love at first sight at this one puppy, he wasn't that far from us and it doesn't feel like a breeding place. I don't want to talk about the amount we paid but I am glad to say it wasn't anywhere near the first expensive ones we saw.

Meet Chicken 🐓, our baby boy!

And just like that, we're now a mom and dad 👪! I hope we get to do this right with Chicken and if we do, I think AJ and I can start talking about adopting one 🐶.

Check out his Instagram!