I don’t remember if I ever wrote about Bear on the blog.
On June 18th, we won Bear at an auction for my mom’s cousin’s daughter (What’s the term for that haha, second cousin?)
Anyways, Bear was purchased with the intent of giving him to our neighbor who was looking for a dog at the time. Well after one look I was in love with the 9 week old puppy, I mean just look at how cute he was!
The girls absolutely adored him, well I should say Olivia absolutely adored him, Jillian could take him or leave him. Those first two weeks were like a dream, he slept all day with the occasional waking to play, eat, and poop. Some nights were good, other nights he whined… he was definitely our third child. He was slowly getting the hang of potty training and we were excited how quickly he was learning.
Then July came around and I started teaching at UCI with the young writers program. I was gone all day, leaving my mom to watch the girls and work with Bear. It was ok at the time because I was only going to be working for 3 weeks then I could get more involved with puppy training. Well one week into teaching and I was offered a job at a year round school.
Fast forward to August and my poor mother is doing all of the babysitting and puppy training. She managed to potty train him and began working on the behavior issues like biting, jumping, digging, barking, chewing, etc. It became too much for all of us, and it wasn’t fair to Bear. We just didn’t have the time he deserved.
We ultimately decided that we needed to give him to his original intended owner. She lives 3 doors down from us and doesn’t have any kids. She is an interior decorator who I believe works mostly from home. She was thrilled when we asked if she was still interested in the dog.
We called her a few days later to check on her and she is in absolute heaven. We’re so excited that Bear (who is now called Bentley) has the home he deserves to be in. He gets round the clock attention and love, which is something that we just were not able to give.