Loving Maggie!

Maggie will be four yrs. old this Dec. She is our cockapoo puppy. We got Maggie when she was eight wks. old. I remember Kristen and I going into the puppy shop and looking at all the cute puppies. We saw Maggie and thought she was sooo cute. Kristen carried her around holding her and I said "better not put her down cause many are in here looking for a special puppy!" I ask a man there , "how do you know if your getting a good puppy?" He said turn her over and see if she stays pretty calm , if so she is going to be a pretty good choice. Well, we tryed what he said and wonder of all wonders it worked, she stayed calm. So we didn't put her down the whole time while looking at all the other puppies cause we thought someone might just take her. She was cute and people looked at her but didn't ask us to give her up. We said we were thinking!! Now, I did get attached to our little puppy Scruffy when the kids were small and cried like a baby when she passed. Now here I am getting attached to Maggie and can't ever imagine losing her.. Again for sure my heart would be broken! A cute tale of training Maggie:
I remember staying up late at night with her. We kept her in our bathroom right off our bedroom with newspapers on the floor and she would whimper but I couldn't let her out of bathroom till she got potty trained,well we would take her outdoors now and then. now this is funny- I stayed sitting by the door at night so she wouldn't whimper and she was ok as long as she saw me, but the minute I leave she would start whimpering again. She would curl up and sleep if I stayed where she could see me. The minute I tryed to move ,she would open her eyes and whimper again. Finally I decided to fool her. I propped my pillow against the bathroom door and pretended to be asleep, she kept looking up and seeing me would lay back down. Well I decided to made a dummy of myself out of a pillow with what looked like my head and my nightgown halfway over the pillow. She thought it was me and settled down to sleep and I crawled out and into my bed! Yes! Maggie now is a joy in our lives and so sweet and is pretty obedient also. Dad is so attached to her. Very much so that he boils her chicken now and then. Dad spends tons of time with Maggie and she watches as he works outside. She is my lap sweetie and goes for rides in car with me and to the park. Dad says:
"No sweeter dog ever lived!" Kristen has a new puppy now of her own named Sadie, but I can't help but think Maggie will always have a special place in her heart!
"Until one has loved an animal, part of his soul remains unawakened." mama