Eddie

My family and I love meeting new people and exploring new cultures.  Every summer we pick a new place to travel to.  In the summer of 2009 my brother John suggested London.  This was new and exciting for me because it was the first time I had the opportunity to travel overseas! 

I think the most excited out of  all of us was my mother because it meant she would be that much closer to her pen pal of 40 years….When my mother was a child in grammar school she paid $1 and was assigned a pen pal.  She was paired with Denise of Whales.  ( Get the rest from my paper)

I am passionate about animals. Throughout my child hood I have had a wide array of pets.  Ducks, Canadian Geese, Pheasants, turkeys, rabbits, fish, dogs you name it I’ve pretty much owned it!  But, the animals that I adore the most are dogs. I’ve just never had a small little house dog.  Every dog we’ve owned have been primarily bird dogs because my dad enjoys hunting. 

I had been begging my parents to let me get a new puppy and my mom kept telling me no.  However, no is not in my dad’s vocabulary.  He kept telling me to wait and he would look for something for me. While being the impatient person that I am I took matters into my own hands one day.  I opened the paper and searched through the pet ads.  I came across an ad for miniature schnauzers.  This was a type of breed I was not aware of so I researched about them online. 

Now at the time I was not employed so I didn’t have a lot of cash to spend on a puppy.  I decided that a schnauzer would have to do simply because that was just about the only option I could afford.  I drove all by myself to Salisbury, NY to meet the breeders. 

I ended up buying the last puppy of the liter, which turned out to be the runt…he was soooo tiny he could fit in the palm of my hand!!  I tend to be the type of person who makes decisions on an impulse, which is not the very wisest.  Once I had the puppy I was worrying the whole way home trying to figure out what I was going to tell my parents.  Before I got home I stopped to buy a collar, leash, bed, crate and food for my new little buddy.

When my parents arrived home lets just say their reaction was not very pleasant.  The first night with the new puppy wasn’t the greatest either.  He was put into his crate and I swear it sounded like a bunch of monkeys at the zoo! He was making the weirdest crying noises ALL NIGHT LONG. I thought my parents were going to kill me. 

As the days went by my parents grew very attached to the puppy they first disliked. It took a good couple weeks to find a name for him.  My mom (go figure) ended up naming him Eddie Shea.  Shea was for the old Met’s stadium since that is her favorite baseball team.