When Is The Right Time?, I feel guilty even asking this... Options

[Dukerman]

When is the right time to bring a new baby into your life after losing the most important baby you ever had? My Duke can never, ever be replaced...and I would never even try to replace him.

I feel awful even thinking about it.

[Dukerman]

Yesterday I talked with a breeder about 2 hours away who informed me that black dobie pups were born on Friday the 24th...we are going to see them most likely in the next couple of weeks. I still miss my baby, but my boyfriend said my eyes "lit up like a christmas tree" when I talked to the breeder on the phone about a new baby. We can't bring home another red dobie, it would be too hard...that's why we decided to go with a black one. We won't even have the baby until the first week in August, and hopefully, that will be enough time for me to really prepare for what is going to happen. My boyfriend and I have been together for 13 years (pretty much married) and we have no human children so we can't wait.

Christine, we would love to have 3-4 dobies, but we simply can't get ourselves into that financially...I was laid off in May and luckily my boyfriend's job is secure. We also love to spoil our baby boy so I don't know how we would do with multiple dogs. I haven't mentioned that we have an 8-year-old black cat named Max as well who misses his brother so much. Max has been sleeping with us every night, and in the evenings has been wandering from room to room looking for his big brother...they used to play all the time and sleep next to eachother on the bed or couch.

--Angela