today is a SAD day in the holt household.
jasper, our great dane, has been placed with a new family.
it hurts my heart to even think about it, so i'm going to keep it short
when we got jasper, our circumstances were vastly different than they are now, i was only working 3 days a week, jonny's work was 3 mins from our house so he was easily able to spend time with him during his lunch break. but, with us moving and me going to work full time, leaving him in his kennel for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, just tore us up. jonny tried for months to leave work for lunch, make the 20 minute drive home, spend 15 mins with him, and then drive back to work, this was obviously not a long term solution.
we talked with our breeder about our concerns, and came to the conclusion that we would keep trying to make it work, but after another month, we decided we needed to actively try to find a better option for him. last night our breeder emailed us and let us know that a family he has worked with previously and who has one of jaspers brothers, would love to take him. once we made sure they were suitable, we worked out the details, and they picked him up today with their 4 kids. they were all so excited, so it made me feel a little better, but i seriously was having such a hard time all day. he's such a great dog, but, i know he'll be happy at his new home.
i wish we would have known the twists and turns life would take and how they would effect our decision to get a dog, but i feel we gave jasper a loving home for nearly a year and we were lucky to have him in our lives.
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