Our Dog

He agreed. Sounded like a good dog for us.
Next day, the kids and I went to see "our" dog.
She was out in the backyard ... chained up (I was oblivious to this first clue).

The second thought I had was about her size. She was MUCH BIGGER than Wishbone and not a Jack Russel terrior either. OK, she did have the shape of his face. I could have turned around and walked away at this point ... but my kids were enthused, and the dog was too.

They wanted her and they wanted to take her now. So home with us she came, along with a partial bag of dog food.

Somehow I missed the second and third clues ... she was chained up because she "does not do well with other dogs," we were told. "She likes to sit on furniture, too."