So when a transport came up for 10-week old Leo (the most amazingly adorable ball of white fluff you'll ever meet) and 7-8 month old Wager (an amazingly sweet and affectionate and adorable pup), I couldn't say no.
My Mother decided to join me on this transport, as she did for the one on Buddy. It gives her something fun to do after my Dad's passing and really, who can resist puppy breath x2?
We took off from her place around 9:30am for Binghamton, NY. I hadn't driven down to Binghamton from my Mother's house so I looked up the timing on Google maps: 1 1/2 hours. Since I was supposed to arrive around 11:10am, that seemed perfect. It would put us there around 11:00, just in time to meet them. Right?
WRONG.
First of all, we actually arrived around 10:30am (way to go Google Maps for giving the totally wrong timing for the trip!). And we got a call around 10am telling us the transport was running at least a half hour behind. Oops. Since we were already on our way there was not much we could do! So we got to our meeting location far too early. Since our meeting locale was in a parking lot for the Cracker Barrel, we decided to duck in and check out the store. I walked out with some Sweet potato pancake mix that I'm super excited to try out next weekend.
Anyway...they finally arrived around 11:30. We spent a little while with the dogs, tried to get Wager to pee and let Leo play in his water bowl (which seems to be a favourite past time with the little guy). Wager wasn't much interested in bathroom duties and instead wanted everyone to pet him. He was incredibly affectionate and liked to leap up on you and stretch. He was just an incredibly nice dog.
We loaded them up fairly quickly and took off. Here was where the fun started: the two dogs had gotten themselves all tangled up and so my Mom had to lean into the back and unhook their leashes to try to untangle them. While I was driving. And trying to get back onto a major highway! Fun stuff, that was! She managed to untangle them and then spent about half the trip trying to keep them from jumping up into the front.
Partway through they both finally settled and fell asleep and the trip was peaceful until we arrived in Syracuse (though it was slow-going at times due to construction!).
We arrive a little bit after 1pm, got the dogs out quickly, chatted for a few minutes with the other folks that were there for a different transport (this one for cats), and then sent them on their way. My mother was very concerned that Wager seemed to be in too small of a crate for him (he was much bigger than we thought!) but he curled up into a little ball and hopefully slept for their section of the trip.
Both arrived safely last night at their rescue destination! While Leo was cute, Wager was the dog I would have totally adopted in a heartbeat.
I took a handful of photos yesterday but due to the rushed nature of things, they weren't my usual quality unfortunately!
Wager
Leo
