Monday, April 13, 2009

new family member: {djuna belle}

we had a really great weekend...we welcomed a new family member:  djuna belle.  we named her djuna after my favorite writer, djuna barnes.  we actually rescued her last weekend, but this past weekend we were really able to get to know her and see her personality emerge.  she was very shy and withdrawn the first few days.  i don't blame the poor girl:  she was rescued from the kill list at the downey shelter by a rescue group called hearts for hounds.  hfh cleaned her up, fixed her and brought her to their adoption event, which is where we met her!  we brough our other dog, vinnie with us to the event, and they immediately hit it off, so we thought she was meant to come home with us!  she's really sweet and very calm.  i've already taken her to work with me and she's of course a big hit there.  this photo is of her in her bed at work.   yes, she has a pink nose.  yes, she has pink ears.  yes, she looks more like a little lamb.  yes, she's super cute.

is it a bit soon to get another dog after oona?  sure, but after both ruby and oona died, a good friend of ours told us, "maybe the universe is just making room for more dogs that need you."  of course i still miss oona terribly, but it sure is nice to have another sweet dog around.  


the flowers are from some friends we met on friday...aren't they sweet?  we put them in our bedroom, so this was what we woke up to all weekend.

how was your weekend?

{photos by me}



9 comments:

Two Chicks Nest said...

Welcome, little lamb! What a sweetie.

east side bride said...

I have been thinking about this little lamb all wknd...

The Considerati said...

precious! I'm so glad you have her. She's a little fuzzy white pumpkin.
Just sent a link to Moj about Fredrick from HFH.....:-)

Ten Thousand Only said...

<3 her. literally.

Adriana said...

Indeed, our dog friends need more people like you.

Rachel said...

Your little lamb is adorable. We talked about her all weekend.

jamie said...

ben is still talking about her. hee hee. i see he is not the only one.

christina said...

thanks, everyone. i'll have to make sure i keep up with the djuna posts, since she has such a following...
xox

cara said...

Oh she's gorgeous. I love hearing of doggies being adopted instead of bought as puppies, which makes me sad.

We went to a fund raising event for our local vet school last weekend and so so many gorgeous dogs and so many that needed adopted. I wanted to cry all the way home as we had to leave them behind.