Hello...my name is Kruger

It all started with a little thing called www.petfinder.com. Ok, let's be honest. It started a long time before we discovered petfinder.com. And Marley and Me didn't help. We watched the movie on Tuesday night, and by Thursday, we were searching for puppies online. This wasn't the first time we'd looked for a puppy to call our own, but it was the first time we were serious. We found a few, inquired about one, and called it a night. But then...Friday rolled around. And Molly couldn't wait to check out the newest puppy prospect online again. Only this time, when she searched for puppy #1, she found puppy #2 instead (and she could hardly contain her enthusiasm!). So...we took a little field trip to the Kent County Animal Shelter on Friday after work and that's where we met "Buckey," the little black lab/Siberian husky mix we fell in love with. The shelter actually told us we could adopt him right away, but we thought it best to "sleep on it" for the night. We went to dinner, and made a puppy pros and cons list. We researched Buckey's breed. We called our parents. And we prayed. But we went to bed without a conclusion.

On Saturday morning, Molly went to work early. Jason came by the coffee shop at 7:30, knowing we needed to make a decision before someone else found Buckey and took him home. Still sort of undecided, Jason drove back to Grand Rapids and the animal shelter, only to find another family visiting with the little guy! Needless to say, this did not sit well in Jason's gut. He knew we needed a clearance puppy of our own--and Buckey was it! So he signed the papers, found out Buckey might possibly be bilingual, and returned home with the news that we could pick him up on Tuesday. And so, the puppy preparations began...