For today, I’ve decided to share how Ashley and I met. She is a Maltese Spitz (crossbreed of Maltese and Japanese Spitz).
We always have dogs in our house but mainly as guards. For this, we only had Askal (asong kalye). Askal is a local dog in the Philippines and you usually see them in the streets. We never bought expensive dogs because we felt they are high maintenance.
One day, my mom decided to ask for a grandchild, I mean an actual baby. I have a sister but I am the eldest. I am in a relationship but too busy to plan for a child so I just ignored her. But every time I call, she would nag me about it, telling me I am not getting any younger. We would have a long conversation about it and I would end up saying “soon” to her so the conversation would end.
A few weeks before Christmas of 2015, our company had a marketing event. It was a Dog’s Day Out – an event for our homeowners with dogs. It was during this event that I had the brilliant idea of getting a dog in lieu of a baby. My mom loves dogs, and she always wanted to have a small dog of breed. During the event, I tried asking for the participants if they had dogs for sale at a reasonable price. I met someone who sells dogs but doesn’t have any available as of that moment so we just exchanged numbers.
A couple of days later, she called me and said she found a dog that I might be interested in. She already sold the dog to a friend but found out that he was neglecting her so she decided to buy her back. If I want her, I can have her for a price. She brought her to me later that day, and I just fell in love. I can see that she was afraid of almost anything – the sound of the cars passing by, my touch, the umbrella I was holding. She had an ash colored hair, and thought of the name Ashley.
She had a different name then but I just named her Ashley because of her color.
I wanted to bring her with me right away, but my current living arrangement does not allow me to bring in pets. I made a few arrangements to transfer her to our province where my parents reside. After a week, I had her. She had to stay with me for a night, so I just sneaked her into my place. I was surprised of how quite she was. We played the whole night and she never barked. I was relieved because our building has very strict rules when it comes to pets. I almost did not let her go. I just wanted her to stay with me, but I had to.
I initially wanted to tell my mom that I will be bringing my baby for Christmas but I did not want her to expect and be disappointed. I might suffer her wrath afterwards so I just told her that for the meantime, Ashley will be her grandchild. Until now, she is a spoiled dog and wants all the attention to herself. She respects my space when I’m sleeping and eating, but almost always, she asks for my attention.
ASHLEY & ME
When I’m working, she sits in my lap. If she gets bored, she will disturb my work.
When I wake up, she’s always there to greet me.
After a few months, she was already bored so we got her a pet named Bubbles.
This year during my birthday, my mom asked for “another grandchild”, one that I will bear in my womb. I joked and said I will get another dog. Her answer? As long as he or she will come from my womb. I guess that’s her way of saying no to another dog. Lol!
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That is really cool "For today, I’ve decided to share how my dog, Ashley and I met. She is a Maltese Spitz (crossbreed of Maltese and Japanese Spitz)."
My daughter has Malteze and it is best familly addition we had in years
Mine too! :) She is kinda spoiled though. But I love her so much.
That is good spoiled to be. lucky that you are.
Thanks :)
You are welcome
Love her!
Thanks 😀
Oh... my Tiger playing with her lunch. :D
Hahahahaha why are you thinking of food all the time? This post is about our dog. 😋
Just because you are a tiger. hehehe
Interesting story :)) I liked it! The dog is nice.
Thanks 👍 she is indeed nice.
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I love dogs, we have too, they are our babies. Your pups are beautiful :)
Thanks. They have been our babies for almost 2 years. 😀
Ah such a lovely dog there, you two looks good
Thanks! She is my love. :)
Haha! Same goes with my father, he wanted me to have a child already and I would always say no 😂😂 i love kids but I'm not yet ready. Your dogs are really cute!!
Thanks. They never fail to make us smile everyday.
Maybe you also need to adopt a dog? Hahahaha
we already have dogs and cats hahaha
Oh, that's tricky. Hehehe You should have kids then :D