My New Dog...

I got a dog last night, and to be honest I'm terrified!!! He is about the cutest dog I have ever seen but I have a feeling he might stress me out. The lady I got him from found him running through a field at her house took him in and then shipped him off to my house. He is a black lab mixed with something else (I'm not sure what that something else is) he is all black except all four of his paws are white, he has a white spot on his nose, and some white on his chest. He is only three months old, so he is still pretty small. His name is Claxton.

I named him Claxton because that is what I wanted to name my first born son but I decided that any respectable woman would never let me name her first born son Claxton...So I named my dog that instead. There is a bluegrass bar in Nashville that I used to go to occasionally and on the wall they had a pencil etching of Roy Acuff's head stone. It turns out that Roy's middle name was Claxton, I liked the name and had been in search of something to name after him since that day. If you didn't know Roy Acuff is a famous bluegrass fiddler. (After a quick google search I discovered that there is a town in Georgia named Claxton and also a law firm somewhere named Claxton & Claxton I bet they are cool guys).

I have been reading up on how to train a puppy and discovered that most people recommend buying a training crate to keep your puppy in at night so he doesn't run all over, and apparently its easier to house train him that way. So I went out and bought one last night and Claxton was pretty calm when I put him in it so I went to bed. I thought it was odd that he didn't make a noise all night. I had a nightmare that I didn't close his crate and he broke out, destroyed my house, went to the bath room everywhere and then came in my room to kill me. Well when I woke up I discovered that my nightmare turned out to be true (except for the killing and destruction part)! He broke out of his cage somehow and when I looked for him I found him sleeping on the couch.

I'll post a picture of him soon. I have a feeling that my mother and my brother are not going to be to happy about my new addition. Oh well! I'm also extremely concerned about having to take care of him for a long time. I told Jennifer that this is my test to see if I should ever have children. I hope I pass.