Living on Cloud Nine: Pride's Puppies

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY..this is about our newest LOVE!!!

You know how hard it was for us to lose Daisy. And Mr. Nine was not really interested in getting another doggie. But a Christmas miracle happened when during that evening, he asked me if I got everything I wanted? I said, “well no I didn’t, you know how my heart aches for another doggie”

and he said let’s do it. He got on board and excited from the get-go and now Miss Stella Mae is “his girl!”

2nd day home with Daddy.

We knew right away we wanted a poodle mix because of the hypoallergenic aspect. Our kids had gotten a Cavapoo and so we started investigating and ultimately went towards a Havapoo that we had seen last summer on our family vacation. We found that one of the top five breeders was just two hours north of us in Grand Rapids. There was one close in our area but when I called, they didn’t even know when their next litter was, and I felt like there was no heart there and their puppies were all in cages. Enter our dear Becky from Pride's Poodles who does all in-home breeding, the puppies have their own rooms free to roam, she trains them she gives them the best natural food and treats and loves them like her grand-babies! I knew right away she was our person. She had just had a litter of Havapoos too, born on 12-11-21.

This is Stella's Mom, the mini Poodle.

We decided on a name before we even saw her, we originally wanted to keep a "D" name with the Mae, kind of taking after Daisy but Mr. Nine came up with Stella and it just fit and then everything there after would cause us to know that it was indeed meant to be the name. From our son’s girlfriend growing up on Stella Street to the first collar I looked at having the name Stella on it to the name of the treats our breeder fed her puppies, it was all just meant to be.

So just a couple weeks after Christmas we went to visit her four-week-old Havapoo litter. Our first choice was already reserved but that was ultimately meant to be because the little merle havapoo, the runt of the litter, Stella Mae stole our heart!

Meeting for the first time at 4 weeks old.

To be honest, we almost reserved two that day they were so precious. Becky kept us in the know sending texts and photos of our sweet girl until pick up day.

Photo from Becky, our girl 5 weeks old.

We were counting down the days and we’re so excited to go pick her up. I even had a monogramed Travel Tote made for her from Land's End.

BUY TOTE ...GREAT SALE

(I own 6 of these sturdy bags)

Becky had bathed her and put her in a little sweater with a matching blanket and a sweet treat bag for the trip home.

She slept most of the way and we put her on a pee pad in the trunk to try and potty, but she just wanted to sleep in mama’s lap.

I had to go into the grocery store and then she slept on daddy.

You guys, I cannot even begin to explain how precious and sweet she is! She has brought so much joy to us in just one week, it is unreal! Yes, the first few nights were a little restless but by night five she had slept through the night. She is so funny and is doing all the funny things like jumping up on the dishwasher, lol!