Dogs Trust and Ear Piercing

When I say Dogs Trust and ear piercing, I don't mean that we went to the Dogs Trust and pierced the dog's ears because that would just be weird... and I'm not sure about the legality behind that either. But that's not a problem, because we didn't do that! Now to what this blog REALLY is about... 

You my remember about me writing about my family maybe getting a dog, specifically wanting a golden retriever. Well yesterday, my mum, step dad, sister and I went to Canterbury Dogs Trust Centre as we had seen that there was a golden retriever there called Dermot. So we thought we'd look. 

When we got there we asked if we could see Dermot, but we were told that he was reserved... bit of a bummer. But they said that we could fill out a form to show more about our family, so that they would be able to determine whether any dogs would fit into our family. While Mum and Graham filled out the forms, my sister and I went around the reception room, where they have a selection of dogs in kennels that we can see, looking at all of the dogs. 

We went over and looked at Dermot and he was absolutely adorable! He was so big and fluffy, but the thing was... he looked a little depressed. I know, what does a depressed dog look like? 

What I mean is... all of the other dogs were walking about, and everything but he just stayed there, laying in the same spot. Doing nothing. It made me feel really sorry for him as I don't think he liked being there, who would really. 

Graham enquired about us perhaps being a second reserve for Dermot, as we loved the look of him and felt really sorry for him. The woman on reception gave us a bit of a blank look and said that she didn't knwo Dermot well so she wouldn't know if he would fit in our family well. There was a more helpful guy there who took over from that point, so he went through our form and said that we may not be the perfect family for Dermot as he needed something quiet as he is very sensitive around a lot of people, and there are 5 of us. 

We spoke with him a bit longer and then he had to do something else so after looking at the dogs a little longer, we left. The guy that spoke to us before came running out after us, apologising if he was rude (which he wasn't) and said that there was a dog that he though would be good for us, so he took us round to the other dogs to see a Doberman cross called Millie. There were so many dogs there and they barked SO MUCH, I didn't like it! Although Millie was cute, she was way to noisy as she didn't deal with kennels well apparently. Even though Millie was lovely, we decided we'd keep looking. My mum is 'allergic to noise' anyway so that wouldn't have been good. 

After this we went into town as my sister wanted her ears pierced. The shop told us that they could do it straight away so they took us down this teeny tiny stairs to the piercing room. Mum signed the form and Zoe sat on the chair, and told me I had to go the other side of the curtain because I would put her off. Me? Never...

I did do what I was told, and Graham came out too so we decided we'd go and wait in Waterstones. I saw a friend of mine, Arthur, so spoke with him briefly and shortly after Mum and Zoe returned. I was surprised they were quite quick! Zoe and I then went and looked at the Where's Wally books because I love them and I didn't want to look like a complete 'special' person looking at them myself! There was one with a board game in :O awesome! 

But best of all, there was one called 'Where's Wally?: The Totally Essential Travel Collection', it was all of the Where's Wally books... all in one! It was in an A5 type book and it has LOADS in! It looked awesome! But I didn't buy it, I'm not that childish! Ok, I am that childish, the child within me was telling me I wanted it. I resisted the temptation!