A couple of weeks ago we said our final goodbyes to our beloved boxer and family member, Faith. Our other boxer, Buster, along with the rest of our family, has been mourning her loss.
The children, as well as Buster and my husband and I, have been having thoughts about adding another four-legged friend to our family.
Due to the abundance of real estate foreclosures in South Florida, families had to surrender many wonderful dogs when they were forced to move out of their houses into no-pets-allowed apartments or the crowded residences of relatives.
Although both of our dogs were pure boxers, we had rescued both of them and want to find another rescue dog to adopt. Last week my daughter Heather, son Kevin and I headed to The Humane Society of Broward County http://www.humanebroward.com  located in Southeast Broward between Miami and Fort Lauderdale. We saw lots of wonderful dogs, but did not find the dog we were looking for. Next we headed to Broward County Animal Care http://www.broward.org/animal the building not as pretty as the Humane Society or as conveniently located, but with tons of wonderful cats and dogs looking for homes. We did not find a new family member there either. Finally we headed over to Puppy Palace, a puppy store, to get a better idea of the breeds that would fit well into our family. We love boxers, but were thinking that maybe we would prefer a smaller breed for our new family member. Heather and I both really liked the Shih Tzus but Kevin maintained he was not a Shih Tzu kind of kid, so we were figuring out what we did not want, but were no closer to what we did want.
On Sunday Heather asked if we could again visit the Humane Society and Animal Care. We made plans to head out but I checked Boxer Rescue on-line first and saw that Coastal Boxer Rescue was actually showing some of their boxers at Canine Oktoberfest at TY Park http://www.broward.org/parks/ty.htm  which is right down the street from us.
Heather and I grabbed Buster and headed out. As we entered the park we could see tons of dogs of every shape, size and breed. We visited with the pug rescues, the labs, some mixed breeds, and they were all great, and then we reached the boxers. Cecilia was there from Coastal Boxer Rescue http://www.coastalboxers.org  We visited with two lovely females, a brindle named Chloe, who is 18 months old and a two-year-old fawn named Pebbles.    We really adored both dogs, although Heatherhad an immediate bond with Pebbles, and Buster played with both of them, as he had not with any others.
We rushed home to bring back my husband, Philip, and he fell in love as well. Now we had to apply to be accepted as a great home for Pebbles and arrange for Kevin to meet her to give his stamp of approval.
We took lots of photos and Kevin agreed as soon as he saw them. We are now just waiting to hear back from Coastal Boxer Rescue and I will keep you updated on our progress.
Hope you all had a great weekend as well!
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Ellen Bithell, CRS, CREO
SELLS SOUTH FLORIDA