Amy decided she wanted to have a second doggo, we thought about getting another corgi, but they are just so expensive, so we broadened our search and found a pure bread black lab pup.
Meet Archie:
Unfortunately we did not know that male corgi’s are quite territorial, so at least for now Archie cant live out the back with Bilbo, not quite sure what we are going to do about that just yet.
Here he is helping build his pen:
We got Bilbo at just 8 weeks old.
Today he turns 1 year old, and still cute!
.... also still an arsehole!
I need to start here with some history, Amy and I always planned to get a puppy after we got married, it was originally going to be her first 'valentines day as my wife' present, but unfortunately things just didn't work out in a way that could allow that to happen, originally I had intended to have a small house built on our block for us to move into, but the issue after issue we experienced with the subdivision wiped that option off the board, so we ended up renting, and not able to afford much we ended up in a little unit on Wilmot St in Port Sorell, and have since moved to a slightly larger, much newer, but still a unit, next door. Neither place, being rentals, allowed pets, and weren't big enough for the pet Amy wanted (a Golden Retriever) and so we had given the idea away for the time being.
But then the unit we are in went up for sale...
Initially I was very annoyed about that, we had gone to the trouble to move next door because it was a little bigger and alot newer and we thought we'd be more comfortable there, having resigned to the fact we would be renting for probably the next couple of years. But God is good, and he has been looking after our best interests even though we didn't know it. Amy's parents bought it! Which means we can basically do whatever we want, the rent has gone down, and because the Real Estate Lease has been dissolved and because there is a small back yard here we can get a pet! Obviously we couldn't get a dog as big as a Golden Retriever, so we went googling and settled on a Corgi.
Meet Bilbo, and yes that’s Bilbo as in Bilbo Baggins.
He is a male, Welsh Cardigan Corgi. He was pretty shy when we first got him
Unfortunately only a week after we got him he got very sick, we had to take him to the vet, he was there for several days, on a drip, when he came back he was a completely different puppy, which leads us to believe that he was unwell when we first got him.
He is now healthy, and a very lively little puppy.
He is really cute running in slow motion: https://vimeo.com/199427049
Something cool, we picked Bilbo up on the 10th of December. Thats significant because 10 is our number (and it was not intentionally so). We started dating on 10th March, I proposed on the 10th Feb (this one was not planned), our engagement party was on the 10th July (also not planned), and we got married on 10th January (this one was planned), and now the next significant event in our lives has happened on the 10th.
Thats pretty cool.
Live Long and Prosper.