It's actually kind of a silly story how we decided to get a puppy. That year, we were driving home from our week long vacation in Ocean City, MD with my parents. I saw a sign with a Golden Retriever on it and told J that I wanted one. His response was something along the lines of no way, they shed too much. So we started talking and agreed that we would like a lab puppy. Once this was decided, we started coming up with names for our imaginary lab. J wanted to call it 'Cateater' as in Cat Eater (can you tell he's not a cat person?!). I vetoed that one quickly. He then brought up Bullet, but that had been one of his dogs names as a child. I jokingly threw out Remington and he immediately followed it up with Ruger. Yes, both names are in reference to weapons.
The next day, I sat down and started looking through the classifieds for a puppy. Everyone had yellow labs or girls. We wanted a black or red boy lab. So i jumped on petfinder.com and found an add for a whole LITTER of puppies that had been dropped off for rescue.
That night we brought home our little Ruger; he was only 8 weeks old!![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2WlniWU26MUFPHRZG4Y3cv0uDhPSx6bZkTz9ydKTixp4dPvzVPcW8m1RpGFVFsnentwQr6m3xTP0S2GV-DW09IwHXXNZzdtwMxrP-Vib6KhJlo6rcEhyA6vo3rTtkMTZiJXMeA3zx5Q/s320/RD.jpeg)
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We quickly turned him into a water dog, taking him to the lake as often as possible. At first, he wasn't sure of it but now he loves to swim and play in the water.
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He is a goofy little character but he is so loving and affectionate! We couldn't imagine not having this little guy around. Husband affectionately calls him R.D. (Ruger-Dog)
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