We had a visitor

The boys & I were doing the dishes last night when Toby was looking out our lounge room window and staring back at Toby was a dog standing on one of the chairs with her paws on the window sill.

  

I think she got frightened by the thunder we had last night and saw the glow of our lounge room lights.  She was quite happy to come inside, although she was a little smelly.

We spent the rest of the daylight walking up and down our street knocking on doors with the dog in tow and the boys in their pyjamas, but to no avail, nobody seemed to know where she came from.  So we had a puppy for the night.  Although she's not quite a puppy anymore I'd say she was in her Autumn years and very gentle.  After the boys were in bed I gave her a bath which improved her smell a little.  She was my little shadow all night as the thunder rumbled out side.  She got very excited at bed time and tried to convince me several times that she usually slept on a bed at her house.  I managed to convince her that sleeping on the towel on the floor was a little more appropriate.  There she slept until around 6.30am when there was a fantastic clap of thunder that had us all jumping out of our beds. So she went and jumped on Toby's bed, much to his excitement.

This morning Toby & I went to the vets and found out she was micro chipped and her name was Tess.  Apparently she came from the next suburb over, quite a long way for a distressed little puppy.  Anyway the vet is keeping her until the owners come to collect her.  Toby was a little sad to say good bye to Tess until I had to explain that her mummy and daddy are going to come and get her, which seemed to settle him down.  It didn't stop him asking all morning "Where is the puppy mummy, where is the puppy?". 

 

I think the boys will be a little sad that she's gone when they come home from school :+[