a fairy tale come true!

My husband and I lost our female golden retriever to cancer a couple of years ago. She was definitely Daddy's little girl and he missed her a lot. We both do volunteer work for local shelters and Rainbow Animal Rescue and were considering the idea of adopting another female dog but had not found the "right" one. 

Since we camp a lot we wanted to try and find a smaller dog this time but one that our other "kids" got along with. We have two other dogs, Rayven a chow/lab mix and Buster Brown a Chocolate lab. Both have lots of energy, love to play and are very affectionate. 

We arrived at the Greenbrier PetsMart adoption in Oct of 2006 to work with Rainbow, and my husband saw this pretty little girl with her "fairy" costume on. Her name was Pearl and she was a Basset mix. At first I was very hesitant, a basset? I've always had big dogs that loved to run and play. I always thought bassets were lazy loveable dogs, but would she really fit in to our pack? 

We talked it over and decided to fill out the application. She was the girl my husband had been searching for! The day the foster brought her over you would have thought Pearl had lived there all along. All three dogs immediately started playing and loving each other. 

Now Pearl (renamed Bristol) is the princess of the house. Rayven (at left) is her protector and Buster (the lab) loves to wrestle with her. We have to be careful of course because she is fragile and Buster is a big boy but he listens well and knows when to stop. She even has her own life jacket to wear while she watches her brothers swim in the lake. 

Bristol has her own "stoop" if you will. She has taken over the chair ottoman and will sit there and "talk" to you. If you don't talk back, she talks more. I hate to say it, but I think she has become Mommy's little girl. Yeah she loves her Dad, but she follows Mom everywhere!