Mission....ACCOMPLISHED!

Right after i picked her up from the shelter, she was so happy!
All of her goodies! She's gonna be so spoiled!

Dad loves her already and she loved him immediately

After we left my brother took this picture, she is gonna have a great life now!!!

About a month ago, my Dad and Brother found a dog running the streets. They took her home and fell completely in love with her. She stayed with them for about a week and it was obvious with all she knew that she was someones long lost GREAT pet. So, Dad and Tony took her to the Downey Shelter and sure enough she had a chip in her and she had owners who were looking for her. My Dad and Tony wanted to keep her so bad and my brother told me Dad was nearly in tears the day they left her at the shelter. But she was someone else's dog and so they did the right thing.

I am a total Daddy's girl. From the day i was born my Dad has done nothing but spoil me and make sure i was always happy! So happy that him and my mom would fight all the time because he would give me everything i wanted because he loved me that much....Now that im older, i always try and find way's to show him how much i love him and how much i appreciate the love he has always shown me...Aside from Josh, my Dad has and will always be one of my best friends..i would be lost without him....So this year for Christmas i was on a mission....

My passion for animals is definitely from the way i was raised. We have always had at least 4 animals in our home and both my Mom and Dad have the biggest heart for animals no matter what kind or where they came from. I am the same way and so is my brother. When i moved out of my Dad's house with Josh, we took all the animals with us leaving my Dad with none. This was a first for him, he has ALWAYS had multiple animals.

I asked my brother what he wanted for Christmas and he said "all i want is a dog" and so my mission begun.....

Not sure what my Dad would think if i just showed up to his house with a dog for him and Tony..would he be mad, happy, upset, angry, not ready for a new animal...hmmm....no time to think about all that, Christmas is right around the corner and with how much my Dad cares for animals he would learn to love something new regardless....

I spent many nights researching dogs from different Shelters on my computer...Shelters have odd hours (10-6) basically my working hours, so all i could do was research on the computer until i found some time to take off work to go look physically...I knew what i was looking for so that made it it easy enough...i knew she had to be a girl, not a puppy but not old either, i wanted her to be a lab mix of some sort and black was the ideal color (because that was the color of the dog my dad and tony were attached to) Basically, i wanted her to remind them of the dog they had to give up...

So Thursday Josh took a day off work and i took a half day. He picked me up around 3pm and we immediately made our way to a local shelter. Walked in a saw so many dogs crying and barking : ( as sad as it was to see SOOOOO many dogs, the dogs at the Harbor shelter were well taken care of. This is where i first found the dog i had my eyes set on for about a week from the computer...she looked much smaller in person....i wanted to play with her to see if her personality fit what i was looking for but not one person was there to help us and we were short on time as it was....Looked around and could not find a single soul to help us and so we left to make our way to the next shelter (at this point it was already 4pm) we got in the car and quickly drove to the Downey Shelter. Got there around 5pm. Tons of people there, tons of people to help and tons of people looking for a pet themselves. We walked around and didn't see much that fit the description of what we were looking for....This shelter made me sad...Dogs stepping in their own pee and poo, their cages had not been cleaned in a while and i know this because they wreaked of ammonia....All the dogs looked so scared, so sad....it just made me feel sick to my stomach. We came across this little chocolate lab mix, she was the cutest most scared little girl...I asked if i could see her and immediately fell in love when she jumped on me and grabbed me with her big ol paws!!! She was licking Josh's whole face, she was just perfect!!! So, we grabbed a yellow card, took it up front and waited about an hour for them to tell us "oh, sorry she's already been adopted" WTH really?? Great, here we go once again, on a mission....That place was such a mess, so unorganized! Poor animals that are left there : (

Josh and I then leave that shelter at 5:20pm to try and make it to the LB shelter by 6pm (thinking that's when it closes) we hit every red light and make it there by 5:50pm only to find out they closed at 5:30pm : ( Ugh..man...this is really started to suck....This is the only day we can find the time to make it to all these pounds and now we have hit a dead end.....By this time i was starving and so we made our way to the store to get stuff to make dinner and spent the rest of the night at home, Champagne and Taco's : ) After dinner, on the computer i was once again, researching dogs....Again i kept coming across that same black dog at the harbor shelter, the one i wanted to see but no one was there to help......

The next morning i woke up, got ready and decided i was gonna make my way to that shelter and see that dog! I found out they opened at 8am PERFECT!! 7:30am i was out the door and the first person at the shelter : ) This time there were plenty of people to help me! I told them which dog i wanted to see, this nice man brought her out and I played with her for about 10min and said "ill take her, she is perfect" She fit every part of what i was looking for! Her owner just didn't want her anymore and dropped her off there, she had been there for a while.

Next thing you know im filling out paper work and the guy said "im gonna give you a discount today" got her for $60 including them fixing her and putting a chip in her!!! She immediately went in for surgery and I was to pick her up by 2pm. So from there i went to work, took a lunch at 12:45, went to PETCO and bought everything she would need..New dog bowl, food, treats, toys, shampoo, brush, collar etc....i get the counter and the lady says "did you just adopt a dog" I said "yes, for my dad" she says " you get 50% off food today and 20% off everything else" REALLY!!! Wow, suddenly everything was just falling into place for me...

I picked little girl up from the shelter after petco, she was so happy but so nervous. Poor thing just got fixed and had no idea where she was going.....So I load her in the hummer and off we go....I drop her off at home and lock my babies out side while she is in the house trying to relax and recover from getting fixed and then back to work i go!!! Ugh what a busy day!!!

We decided to give my dad the dog that night. I wanted her to bond with him and not Josh and I and I did not want to confuse her on where her new home was gonna be....

We walk into my Dad's house with a huge bag of dog food and a basket full of dog goodies...my Dad looks at us like you gotta be kidding....Then we go out to the car and bring her in....

My brother was so excited! My Dad didn't know what to think so he said "i need to make a drink" The end result is... she's gonna have a great home...She slept with my Dad last night and after we left My bother text me with "thank you so much, this is the best gift i have EVER gotten"when we left Dad gave her a name "LUNA" she was curled up on the couch next to him with no worries in the world other then, finally i am home :) She is gonna have a GREAT life now.