Once she found
Winnie, my friend thought we needed a dog too, so she kept sending me
links to the Aylmer SPCA site until I was trained to go there myself.
In November 2009
I saw this alert little face on the website. I was captivated.
I sent the link by email to Dear Hubby: "I'm not asking but..." Hubby
was our cautious holdout.
Well Hubby liked
the little face too so we applied and were given an appointment for
the following Saturday morning.
We arrived an
hour early and our son was beside himself with excitement. We
tried to convey to him that this might not be our dog, but if not,
we'd keep looking.
When the doors
opened we stepped up to the counter and a lady brought out a bounding
skinny bundle of excited mini-Schnauzer. Next thing we knew we
were given a leash with Randy at the end, and a bag. Out the
door we went, Randy leading.
He took us along
the road and made a sharp left to the Quarry path. He was small
and so full of energy. We had a lovely walk getting to know this
spirited, keen, bright little fellow.
Back at the SPCA
counter, a man asked the lady behind the counter, "So are they taking
Randy?"
Son
and I turned our puppy dog eyes to Hubby.
He said "Yes".
Yes!
That evening, to
seal the deal, Randy settled down on Hubby's always-cold feet.
He was home.
Randy didn't
answer to Randy so we decided to give him a new name after observing
him for a couple days. The little dog in the Asterix and Obelisk
stories is always in the background and yet always part of the story,
he's busy, has a sense of humour and his heart breaks whenever a tree
is harmed. So Randy became Idéfix. Iddy. Idéfix is a
play on "idée fixe" or "fixed idea / determined".
Iddy came to us
at 18 months old, fully trained. He makes one small bark to ask
to go in the yard. He makes sure we know when someone is at the front
door.
He remains
healthy, happy, snuggly, protective, playful, energetic and eager to
bolt out the door for walks. He loves his toys and will go get
the one we ask him to get for a game of "I'll fetch but I'm not giving
it back to you".
After some early
walkabouts, we all took training and Iddy has learned to come back so
we often go off-lead at the dog park where he is social and so happy.
Iddy's best
friend is beautiful golden Winnie. He
knows her name and he gets very excited when he hears they are getting
together. Iddy and Win wrestle and play until tired, then rest
and go at it again and again.
Iddy makes us a
family of four and we can't imagine a time before he was with us.
Yvonne, François,
Jean-Luc and Idéfix
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