Lincoln and Deva

As some of you may already know, we recently decided to adopt a puppy. There's a shelter in Daejon, South Korea which houses nearly 160 dogs/puppies. A lot of these dogs were found on the street, were abandoned by their families or were simply homeless. The government has been forced to close down the shelter down by February so all dogs/puppies that weren't adopted by then would be forced to be put down. There's more information here if you'd be interested in reading more about it.

Anyway, Dawna and I made the three hour trek to Daejon yesterday to meet a puppy we were interested in. Her name is Deva... she was born at the shelter and has been thrown around from the shelter... to the vet... to several foster families... all in hopes of finding her a permanent home. When we saw her picture on the internet, we fell in love with her. However, we had to pay a visit to the shelter (where the 160 dogs/puppies were) before we could visit Deva's foster family. At the shelter, we met this little brown puppy... and we fell in love with him. We thought that since we work long hours, it'd be better for Deva to not be alone. So we adopted the 2 month old puppy... named him Lincoln... met Deva (8 months old) two hours later, fell in love with her... and adopted her as well.

And we also found out that they're brother and sister... how random.

Here are the pictures of these awesome pups.


Little Lincoln saying goodbye to his mother and father at the shelter. He shares the same mom with Deva.


Lincoln sitting in the little puppy bag.


The 4-hour, tiring journey back home was finally over. Here I am with Deva... she's beautiful. Like a little fox.


Lincoln being tired.


Lincoln waking up...


Tired pup...


He's looking pretty spaced out here...


The little thinker...


Cute!


The puppy family...


So cute I want to smoosh his face...


Tired pups using Dawna and the couch as beds...


Taken 5 seconds before this blog post...


So yea, this is very exciting. Deva, the older one, is very well-behaved. Very cuddly, hardly ever barks (only at Lincoln now... we don't think she likes him... yet). She's also fully house trained... fully vaccinated... and amazing. Lincoln has a lot of learning to do... but he'll get it soon.

We're excited to live with them for the next however many months in Korea... and the rest of their lives in Canada.

- Gilad