Meeting our Pup

After we lost Lulu, it took a little time before Scott was ready to jump back in with a ridgeback puppy. When the time finally came, we contacted Lulu’s breeder, Sandra. She no longer breeds, but I’d trust her judgement on anything Ridgeback, and she referred us to a friend who was about to hopefully have a couple of pregnant females. We loved the new breeder and couldn’t wait. After a couple of unsuccessful attempts, we were getting antsy. We contacted Sandra again, and she put us in touch with another fantastic breeder friend that had puppies on the way. We filled out a questionnaire, had a few email and phone conversations and crossed our fingers. When the puppies were born, all 10 of them, we were excited. We weren’t set on a male or female, we loved black noses and liver noses, so we were open to almost anything. We decided to let her make the final decision about which pup to place with us. She mentioned us coming up (she lives outside Tuscaloosa) and meeting them around 4 to 5 weeks. Covid had everything screwed up, so that ended up being 6 weeks. She had two pet pups for us to choose from. Above is the cuddly liver-nosed boy with a navy blue collar and below is the aloof black-nosed girl with her momma’s eyes and the lighter purple collar. I’ll let you decide which one we went with.Honestly, there wasn’t a puppy there that I didn’t want.This is Momma Amaris, waiting patiently for us to leave her puppies alone. She was so sweet, and I wanted her, too.It was so hard to drive 9 hours and not come back with a puppy, but luckily we only had a 2 week wait.