Saturday, April 20, 2013

Why Did I Have to Have a Maltipoo?

By Gregory Sloan


A few years ago my wife has this "incredible" idea that she wants a dog called a Maltipoo. Are you kidding me? What is that? That doesn't sound like a dog breed. It sounds like something that the dog did in the floor! Well, if you are kind of like I was and don't know what that dog is, it is a mix between a Maltese and a Miniature or Toy Poodle. And besides, we already had a Miniature Poodle in our house so why in the world would we need another wimpy dog? Why couldn't we get a Labrador or something?

But nothing doing. She persisted. But I was winning. She brought up the topic many times, but no Maltipoo. Whoopee! But then my "no Maltipoo" plan took a wrong turn. A family friend found out about my wife's Maltipoo fascination. It was kind of him to do, even though I was freaking out about having another dog, but he bought a little Maltipoo puppy from Florida and had it brought up to our home in Georgia by way of a commercial airliner. So, this friend (yeah right, huh) shells out a few hundred bucks for the dog and a couple of hundred more to have it flown to Atlanta. So, a Maltipoo was then sitting in our living room.

Well actually we found out that the puppy was sick. She wasn't sick for the long term. I guess it may have been the stress from the plane ride, or perhaps they did a full body scan on her. Heck, I don't know but she was sick for two days. Two long days. Her sickness came in the form of the most disgusting poop all over the house that you could imagine. (Sorry if your eating lunch). And guess what? those happened to be the two days that m wife was scheduled to be at a medical convention. Yep. I didn't want the dog. I was given the dog. The dog pooped all over the house for two days, and.I was in charge of cleaning it up because the woman who WANTED THE DOG was not there. Was I just a little aggravated?

Ok, so now some time has gone by. And certainly this little pup didn't stay sick very long. But I still wasn't pleased that I had lost the Maltipoo battle. But as bad as I hated to admit it, I did. That dog was a winner. She is great. She is one of the cutest, loving dogs I have ever been around in my life. the kind of personality that she has makes everyone love her. I'm glad she's not a guard dog because she would be terrible at that. She would just lick the burglar and usher him in and out of the house! And she loves everyone, especially me, the one who didn't want her in the first place. This is a dog that loves life.

Yep, her name is Pearlie and I could hardly imagine her not being a part of our family now. She is ready to play or she's ready to sit in your lap. She's just ready to be with people. I should be more like Pearlie. What a lovable dog. Yeah, if the guys are standing around talking about their Labrador Retrievers, German Shepherds, or whatever, I just raise my hand and say, "Boys I got me a Maltipoo." So yeah, I lost the Maltipoo battle, but the family won, and I did too as we have one of the greatest dogs around. She is a keeper.




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  1. I am dog lover. And big fan of Maltipoo Puppies. I have found your blog whenever was search about Maltipoo Puppy. You blog is very informative and nice. Thanks :)

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