Gasp! It's me!
But there's the real Dru!
Well done
Melissa asked on the comments of one of my previous vlogs this month,
if I've told the story of Dru, how I got Dru. And I probably have but it doesn't
hurt to tell it again.
It was August 2004. It had been a little while since I lost my
previous dog to heartworm disease.
I was missing having a dog in my life so I started looking on various pet
adoption websites and craigslist and I checked in with my girlfriend at the time,
Carrie, with photos of the dogs that I liked and she liked a few of them but
then I send her a photo of this dog,
this one, and Carrie said, "Oh! This,
this is the one. You should get this dog!" The photo came from a craigslist ad. A couple
had found this dog in Druid Hill Park, a part of Baltimore. She was tied to a post
covered in cuts and bruises and they were doing interviews with people who
are interested in adopting her.
They already had a few dogs, which is why they couldn't keep her for themselves. They had
her set up in the kitchen and were interviewing people.
Apparently, most of the people who had come to check Dru out had been met with
growls and snaps and just general disapproval from Dru.
But when I came in and I sat down and I just waited, she came over to me and was
very friendly with me! She had been named Druidzilla, the monster of Druid Hill Park,
but to me she was always just Dru.
I feel like the fact that of all the people came to interview to adopt her,
she came to me and was friendly with me, means she kind of chose me instead of the
other way around.
When I adopted her the vets suspected that she was about a year old.
She had not been spayed yet, so that was the first thing that we did. The life expectancy
for a dog like Dru is probably about 10 years, so I've been very lucky and i hope
that i keep on being lucky for a while.
I've already won!
Dru!
[laughter!]
so that's my vlog for today, all about Dru, today. Even have a shirt with Dru
on.. on it!
Leave me some comments about my adopting Dru story down below or tell me
anything that matters to you, because I want to know what matters to you.
Thank you for watching my dog vlog today, here at the end of the video is where I
always say:
Tomorrow
will be even better!