Puppy Preparations

After we left the animal shelter last night, we went on a date at Graze, a restaurant on the ped mall in Iowa City. I had bought a $25 gift certificate to Graze on Restaurants.com for $4, so it was a pretty decent deal. We had the Pesto Veggie Pizza, Spinach and Three Cheese, and the unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on who you are) named Half-A** Ice Cream Pie. We were a little too distracted by the prospect of spending Wednesday night with Gustav to enjoy much time looking into each other's eyes, but that was just fine.

Afterwards, we picked up Keriann and went to PetCo, Gordman's, and Target to get our puppy supplies, which are shown above. (I'd noticed when I went to Gordman's last week looking for something else that they had a decent puppy section.) From PetCo, we bought some Natural Balance dog food (which uses organic free-range chicken), some Bear Biscuits (which are apparently also fed to bears in zoos), some blueberry, yogurt, and almond flavored bite-sized treats (which I think might be a little too girly), a harness, a rope for tug-of-war, and puppy shampoo (which came with a free pet perfume, which I left on the shelf for girly dogs). At Gordman's, Dexter found a cool tire-shaped frisbee toy. At Target, which we realized has better prices and selection than PetCo, we got a green argyle collar and leash, a stake and spring chain for our backyard, food and water bowls, tennis balls, and rawhide bones.

We read that Gustav didn't seem to be super interested in toys, but we wanted to have a few around. We saw him bring a tennis ball into his kennel yesterday and heard that he likes to play fetch. We'll have to go play in g-ma and g-pa's backyard this weekend!

We're going to pick him up today at 4:30, but still haven't decided on a name. Pictures of Gustav at home to come!