Finally - Her Arrival

Today was finally The Day !! What a long day for my girl. She must have started out in the middle of the night getting rudely awakened for the drive to the Edmonton airport. She finally landed in Los Angeles about 4 pm where it took us another hour to bail her out of customs. Poor thing..

So about 5 pm Chiclet met her new mom & dad (Steve) for the first time. She was very happy to get out of the crate, tail wagging voraciously. Big kisses for both of us too, for some reason I was under the impressions she wasn't a kisser... au contrare ( or she's learned the fine art of Siberian Manipulation very well) What a girl immediately relieved herself outside, had some roasted chicken as a treat from Dad(thinks he's going to bond quicker than me) & back into the crate for the 2+ hr drive to San Diego, quiet & sleepy the whole trip.

We did introduce her briefly to her 2 new brothers & she wasn't thrilled. In all honesty she was trashed from the trip, so I kept the meeting to a very brief encounter. They all had to travel in the van from the office(where we had left the boys in the a/c for the day) to our house & yep she growled & snarled the whole 30 minutes. At the house Chiclet & Pav met face to face where they had a brief "discussion" . I decided against a face to face meeting with Zarr, maybe I'm pampering her a bit but I think she needed some space to take in her whole new world.

She spent the evening schmoozing Steve, oh yes you'll love this one; she raided the toy box & claimed 3 stuff toys as hers. So after play with the humans where we have absolutley fallen in love, she's off to sleep in her crate with her claimed trophies form the boys toy box. She is sleeping in the same room where the boys sleep, but to help her get rest I covered her crate like a bird. She's currently snoring & sleeping in the dead bug posiiton.

I'm confident when she gets some deparately needed rest and has a chance to catalog all the noises, smells & activities in her new world she'll decide the boys are going to be great new buddies. Too much for 1 day, not at all surprised.

Pictures ? hopefully tomorrow.....