09/25/2026
We love to check on on our adopters ❤️🥰
Previously merriweather…. now DOLLY ❤️
Our other dog whom we adopted a couple years before her is named Jolene, so naturally when we got “Merriweather”, we could not be more thrilled to name her Dolly to complete the iconic duo. She took to Dolly almost immediately like she knew it was her name without question. It took… quite a lot of patience and determination to get Dolly to where she is today. Simple tasks such as getting her to go outside were, not so simple tasks might I say. Once she plotted somewhere, typically under the bed or in a corner, she became a boulder that was not to be budged. She wouldn’t eat, like ever. Eventually it was only if you were right beside her, watching her or encouraging her. She always knocked her food bowl over in order to eat the food off the ground. Now a days, even if her food doesn’t spill, she’s got to give the bowl a good tilting and swivel. But, going back to her early days with us, everything (EH-VER-EE- thing) was quite a process because she was so, so frightened and shy. But, oh man I’d do it all over again knowing the sweet girl and easy going girlie she is now. I mean, she was always sweet but she’s much much more at home, comfortable, laid back, and relaxed. She has a strange obsession (we noticed early on) with socks? She’s always gravitated to always having a sock nearby or in her mouth. Most days my socks are mismatched, because the other sock to the pair has fallen victim to the Dolly sock heist. If she doesn’t have a sock, any clothing article will suffice for her. And I mean ANY clothing article. A pair of shorts, a shirt, a bra. She likes to melt me with her big, eternally sad, brown eyes when I’m cooking and she’s patiently and silently begging for a piece. Which she ALWAYS gets. She loves playing with her little sister Jolene. She’s taught Jolene many lessons, like how to snuggle, how to get what you want by being cute and not by being loud, and our favorite lesson she’s helped with is overall getting Jolene to CHILL OUT. Although Jolene did in return teach Dolly that you must always greet your person at the door by jumping on them. Although she’s warmed up and opened up her heart to myself, my partner, and our children, she is not interested in getting to know other people that much, and as homebodies with minimal guests, we’re okay with that as we keep to ourselves just as much as she does. We know it’s nothing personal, she’s just shy and wary, and prefers her distance from strangers and honestly that’s totally relatable for us so we couldn’t be more lucky to have noticed her that day we went to the shelter. We certainly didn’t know what was ahead of us, but something in our hearts couldn’t leave her behind. We love our Dolly girl ❤️
