KC

Poor KC. We used to take her picture, let her sleep on the bed, we even threw her a birthday party once.

Those days are long gone!

Then add to that, the fact that shortly before we left for Christmas break, we found out that all the asthma and allergy problems that Micah has been having are all because of KC. He's not allergic to anything else. Just the dog.

Since we knew it wouldn't be wise for us to have Micah trapped in the car with the KC, we had a friend from church come to check on her. We got a kennel, a nice warm blanket, and told her that she was now an outside dog. Our hope was that since we wouldn't be home, she would make the transition to an outside dog fairly smoothly.

She showed us!

The day after Christmas, we get a call from our friend watching KC. KC had broken the fence, dug out, and was gone. We called all the right people, checked with neighbors, had our friend check the area. No KC.

Yesterday, we explained what had happened to the kids. They were upset, but seemed okay.

Late last night, once we had gotten home, I checked the answering machine. Someone had found KC, and called the vet (which we had also done, leaving our cell number) to get our info. The nice lady said that she would keep KC until we could come get her. This was about a day after KC ran off. The next message, which was about four days after that, we had a call from the animal shelter saying they had KC. We're not sure it the people who originally found KC called them, or if KC got away from them too. Regardless, we were happy and very surprised!! I had talked to the animal shelter, twice (one of the times was after they had her!) and they said they didn't have her.

This morning, we headed out to the animal shelter to pick up poor KC. The kids were so happy! Curtis went in, and came out about 10 minutes later saying that we had to pay $62.50 for impoundment and "boarding". I was not happy! With Micah's allergies, I was thinking that maybe this would be a good time to just get rid of the dog. Now we have her back AND we have to pay to get her!! I told Curtis to decide what he wanted to do. He went back in, and came out with KC. He talked them down $15 (which was the "boarding" cost) since there was some mix up when we called. So just under $50, and we got out dog back. I told Curtis that he was spending his Christmas money! :-)

KC is currently at the doggie spa (aka, Pet's Mart) getting cleaned up. I'm glad that she's safe, and that I won't be hearing, "Mommy, when are we getting another dog?"