We've been approved!
Bean, the beagle, will be joining the family next week, as we've been approved for adoption by the rescue organization caring for him! I'm shopping this weekend for a crate, retractable leash, collar and chew toy. He's been with the rescue group in a foster home since last August, when he was found running the fields as a stray, and I know he's attached to his foster mom and her family. So I expect there will be sadness, stress and many adjustments (on both sides) before he bonds with us. But we're all eager to start! Next Wednesday is bring Bean home day!
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Have fun! 
If any problems develop with Bean, this"ll be my "go to" group for help/advice
Aside from the fact that they ruin any chance of actual training, they are extremely dangerous.
I read of an animal trainer losing the end of a thumb that got tangled momentarily...right when her large puppy bolted.
And I've had them wrapped around my ankles at the dog store, by an owner who was too busy yakking with the store clerk to notice what her dog was doing.
p.s. Congratulations on Bean! Cute doggy 
He looks so cute and like a real sweetie! He'll bond just fine with your family and pretty darn quick, too. Dogs are very adaptable. Before you know it he'll have his new home staked out as his territory and bind himself to your family as if he always had been. Just give him some space and keep an eye on him as he checks out his new surroundings sniffing everything and getting adjusted. It won't take him long at all, and after a few days you'll think you've always had him as part of the family and so will he. He's already had a lot of upheaval in his life already and has adapted really well to new situations, so he'll be just fine with your family and likely almost right away.
You might want to consider giving him just a half a tablet of pepto bismal chewables until his system gets used to different water in your area (if your water system is different from the one the shelter uses). Every water system has different amounts of different chemicals, and just drinking water from a source that's different than the one the dog was accustomed to can cause stomach upset for the first week or so. The daily pepto tabs are great for the stomach problems that can result from different food and water and even any stress from being in a new environment. Most people just put up with the stomach upsets from all this sudden change for that first week or two, but it's no fun cleaning up barf or diarrhea from the carpet (they ALWAYS seem to want to be sick on carpeting!), so with the pepto tabs you likely won't have to deal with any of that and neither would the dog... a new place is disconcerting enough for a dog, but it probably is a lot worse if they feel sick to boot. You might have to disguise the tabs in food or dump them down his throat, but my dogs thought they were yummy and ate them like treats right out of my hand. I think the chewable tabs are cherry flavored or something so they don't taste yucky. I take them myself from time to time, and they're the only chewable medicine I've ever used that doesn't taste really gross... like chalky blobs of dried toothpaste or something. YUCK! I wouldn't compare them to candy, certainly, but they really aren't bad at all to chew up.
I'm so excited for your new doggie! The next few days are going to feel like they're moving at a crawl, huh?
for the support, encouragement and great advice. I haven't been this excited since... well, since the last time we added a furry friend to the family!
I think we're ready....
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