{"id":234,"date":"2015-04-04T03:04:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T09:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2020-09-24T14:16:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T20:16:57","slug":"my-perfect-puppy-the-arrival-of-lupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"My Perfect Puppy – The Arrival of Lupe"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a continuation of the previously published Dingo Tale post “How To Choose The Perfect Puppy<\/strong><\/a><\/span>“<\/em><\/p>\n

On the evening of February 11, 2011, my spouse arrived home with the puppy I didn’t want.\u00a0 I was still unhappy, and did not even go look at the puppy when I first heard it was here.\u00a0 After a while, I did go take a brief look at it.\u00a0 I had to admit that I really liked the looks of this puppy.\u00a0 My spouse had named it Lupe.<\/p>\n

Lupe\u00a0was\u00a0adorable – full of energy\u00a0with bright hopeful eyes, an inquisitive black nose, ears with tips that flopped over just a bit, little freckled paws, and a curly tail.\u00a0 She was friendly and wanted to lick me with her pink tongue.\u00a0\u00a0Lupe looked like\u00a0she would\u00a0only grow to be\u00a0a smallish medium-sized dog.\u00a0 I liked the notion that she wouldn’t be too big or too small.\u00a0 In fact, I liked everything about the puppy, but still spent only a\u00a0few minutes\u00a0with Lupe\u00a0before retreating back upstairs.<\/p>\n

\"Lupe<\/a>
Lupe & Mr. Woof<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The confrontation came later on that evening.\u00a0 It was time for bed.\u00a0 My spouse had locked Lupe in her transport cage for the night.\u00a0 The cage was downstairs\u00a0in the dark kitchen covered with a blanket.\u00a0 I went to bed.\u00a0 And then it began – the whimpering, pleading, begging, crying, sorrowful tiny\u00a0voice of the lonely, scared\u00a02-month old\u00a0puppy.\u00a0\u00a0Torn away for the first time ever just a few hours ago from\u00a0her mother, siblings, and the cats with which\u00a0she had lived outside enduring\u00a0the cold winter ever since being born in December, Lupe was suddenly now\u00a0confused, lost and alone.\u00a0\u00a0Worst of all she was trapped, a prisoner abandoned and forgotten in a strange dark cage.<\/p>\n

\"Young<\/a>
Young Lupe in February 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Soon I could not bear to hear Lupe crying.\u00a0 I wanted to go get her out of that cage and let her sleep with us.\u00a0 This was not permitted.\u00a0 My spouse had been reading books by famous professional\u00a0“dog whisperers”.\u00a0 The cage was Lupe’s “den”.\u00a0 She would\u00a0soon learn to feel safe and secure alone there.\u00a0 In the meantime, Lupe had to cry herself to sleep.\u00a0 Apparently all dog whisperers understand this is just a part of normal best practices\u00a0dog training.\u00a0 If I didn’t believe it, I could have a look at the books myself.<\/p>\n

I knew if I looked at those books, my spouse would be proven right.\u00a0 I did not avail myself of the opportunity.\u00a0 I am not a dog whisperer.\u00a0 Something in me rebelled at being told a cage was\u00a0the same thing as a safe, secure\u00a0den.\u00a0 I really didn’t care what the dog whisperers recommended.\u00a0 Mentally I speculated that if\u00a0I could throw the whole lot of\u00a0dog whisperers in jail every night, there might be some revised opinions on how wonderful it all was, although I didn’t dare voice such sentiments.\u00a0 But, right or wrong, I was going to set the sad puppy free!<\/p>\n

\"Young<\/a>
My precious little sweet, Lupe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And I did!\u00a0\u00a0Perhaps it was an evil thing to do, but I abandoned my spouse for the night and spent it in another room with the happiest, most grateful,\u00a0little puppy ever.\u00a0 Lupe licked me 10,000 times.\u00a0 Lupe was not sleepy.\u00a0 It was a long night of puppy love, if ever there was one.\u00a0 In one evening I had gone from a\u00a0sullen, resentful new\u00a0puppy owner to madly in love.\u00a0 From now on, it was Lupe and me against the world!<\/p>\n

The third post in this Dingo Tales series\u00a0 is Guilty As Charged!<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Want more Lupe adventures?\u00a0\u00a0Choose\u00a0from\u00a0Lupe’s Dingo Tales\u00a0Index<\/strong><\/span><\/a> or Master Adventure Index<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0Or subscribe free\u00a0to\u00a0new Lupe adventures<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a continuation of the previously published Dingo Tale post “How To Choose The Perfect Puppy“ On the evening of February 11, 2011, my spouse arrived home with the puppy I didn’t want.\u00a0 I was still unhappy, and did not even go look at the puppy when I first heard it was here.\u00a0 After … Continue reading My Perfect Puppy – The Arrival of Lupe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[105,106,50,104,1185,49],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dingo-tales","tag-american-dingo","tag-carolina-dog","tag-dingo-tales","tag-lupe","tag-perfect-puppy","tag-puppy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventuresoflupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Tiny-Lupe.jpg?fit=1065%2C798&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24511,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/24511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}