A last minute cancellation by one of MyeongHee’s friends almost left us holding four dogs. She was going to take two pups and at 9 weeks they were more than ready to go.  I had been holding off on serious training as that’s really the new owner’s prerogative. But they needed training or they needed to go. I spent a lot of time over the weekend posting messages and photos on facebook and on UlsanOnline.com’s classifieds trying to get one or more of my many foreigner friends to adopt a dog.

On their last weekend together, the dogs sack out on the sofa together. From left are SaTang, Sparky, SaRang, and GaMyeon.

I found one friend, Dee, who was willing to take on a pup. Dee is a frequent rock climbing partner and serious doggie person. She is also sister to Fin, my partner on UlsanOnline.com.  She decided to take GaMyeon, who upon first introductions gave her lots of love and affection – she was supposed to -  I trained the pups hard on the “endear” command, just like other owners might teach their dog to “fetch” or “rollover.” It worked great and Dee and she hesitated only a little before calling back and taking her.

GaMyeon takes one last snooze in her bed before I carted her off to Dee’s house.

I had done some hard selling to my students, too, and SaRang is slated to go to set of brother and sister on Thursday or Friday this week. The kids’ mom came to see the pup Monday and will pick her up later after getting all the supplies and puppy-proofing their house.

After learning of the cancellation last week, I took drastic action and had MyeongHee take Sparky to the hairshop with her. She could get better training there than I could here since I no longer get a lunch break to take her out to pee.  She’s pretty cute and her hairshop customers all adore her.

Sparky

So this week, it’s been me and SaTang and SaRang. Being the only pup, she’s settled down and I’ve gotten more attached to her. I’ll miss her – but not that much.

3 Responses to “Almost Gone”

1. Peggy Heideman says:

   March 25, 2010 at 12:28 pm

   So cute. Sparky is adoreable. I dont think my computer at home will update this blog. I was on last nite and the last thing was the video of the pups ??
2. Marty says:

   March 25, 2010 at 11:50 pm

   you might have to force it to reload the page with reload (the circular arrows button)
3. Jessica Winter says:

   March 26, 2010 at 3:25 pm

   I love the picture of all three pups snoozing. How could you want to get rid of a face like that?