So there was this one day/whole month where we were moving states and it was wild. Wild in the sense that nothing was solid. Sean and I were both very busy finding jobs, looking for a place to live, pretending like we had friends, you know! The new-to-the-neighborhood stuff. So Sean, being the over achiever and hard worker he is, found a job rather quickly. Monday-Friday. While I had a job Saturday and Sunday. So obviously that was working.
Rather terribly.
Well on one of those weekdays that I was home alone, I went and bought a few plants. Just to liven up the place and my whole life.
I was lonely and plants are always the solution.
Then a few days past and I realized they indeed did not talk nor did they give hugs.
I then began to troll the local humane society website. There were so many sad cats, dogs, gerbils, mice...I think there was a chameleon. Whatever the animal, it was very sad and lonely. Just like me. AND they had these awful timelines. The longer they were housed there the been cheaper they were...I saw a dog for $20.00...that is literally cheaper than the organic chicken we bought for thanksgiving. Awful.
It quickly escalated from there. I was just nonchalantly scrolling through pictures on my computer when suddenly I found myself parking my car at the shelter. I strolled in and decided that the least I could do was go say hi. So there I was, unbeknownst to Sean, walking around making new dog friends. I have to note that the music they play in there is really good marketing. It's this sweet, angelic solo piano that you would imagine playing at a funeral. And to top it all off, the dogs there were howling these sad notes, and some were barking because they just want to get out and then there was one who was sitting so close to the cage his fat was hanging out. That was Louie.
I sat down on the ground next to his kennel and he leaned in closer. I stuck my hand up and he lifted up his paw and we certainly high fived. I looked over his profile and information, which was not a major selling point. He was returned by a family just the day before for being uncontrollably boisterous and before this shelter he was being housed at the 'dumb friends league'....(I know that dumb just means the inability to speak but I am not into that name)... But lucky for him I have a soft spot from dummies such as himself. I then had to break the news to Sean that we were going to get a dog. He came and at first was a little mad because we really didn't have the means or the time to get a dog but was immediately captivated by the quiet piano melody, Louie's charm and we left hand in hand in paw.
And that's how we came upon Meriwether Lewis.
