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IN WAITING

No news from the Airedale Rescue team today. It is going to move slowly. Not good for impatient people like us.

It took us two weeks to apply and then want instant results.

I think that the deliberation is a good thing. I am glad that they do it.

We have read a lot of stories of people who have adopted Airedales through this process and it is all good. There are bumps for sure. Some dogs are badly marred by early experiences but they place accordingly. It is a quite transparent process.

We think that the five year old, now in Las Vegas, is a candidate for us and we think our coordinator thinks so too. I like the symmetry. His owner died. Franklin died.

We will see.

The thing we are learning is that signing up for another Airedale is not a block to our mourning Franklin.

It is also getting clear that this dog will be his own animal and that he will have a separate place in our lives.

He will not be required to replace Franklin. We will have our own three way life together.

I worry that they will worry about our age.

We already decided that if this does not work out, and we don't know why it should not, we will head for the shelter. Or another Airedale puppy.

There is a dog in our future. And we hope for an Airedale.

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