Meet Vesuvius!

Some of you are well aware and likely hoping this means that I'll finally stfu about it, but I've wanted a big dog to run, cuddle, and travel with me as well as make me feel safe (and vice versa, of course) for THE LONGEST time now, and I've been actively searching for the perfect fit for a good while. Well, July 3rd, while in Phoenix, I decided to ramp the search up a notch and visited three rescues in the area, meeting literally hundreds of dogs in the process (mostly at Maricopa County Animal Care and Control). I'm at a point in my life where I refuse to settle though, so I was very close to throwing in the towel for the day when I met Vesuvius — 105 lbs of two-year-old doberman mix (with great dane?! 😳😆) and the largest dog any of the rescues had. Yup, this was my dog. Initially, I was planning to rename my new dog myself, but with a name like Vesuvius that someone probably painstakingly took the effort to come up with, I couldn't bear to. 😝 I paid the $50 adoption fee — which covered getting him neutered, microchipped, and up-to-date with shots — as well as $14 for a post-op painkiller prescription, drove home to Vegas, and returned three days later to pick up my pup when he was finally ready to go. So everyone, please welcome V to the internet and into your hearts! Dude's DEFINITELY a fucking ornery WIP (thank fuck for YouTube 🙏), but he's also a super sweet, biiiiiiiiiig baby and cuddly af. 😄 Soooo basically, my heart is now spoken for, and I'll never need a human man again, so if on the off chance you're reading this and thinking about how to use it to cleverly slide into the DMs all cute-like, please save yourself the trouble and tip your hat to this fine gentlemen as you move along, maybe to the animal rescue to get yourself a glorious canine (or other creature) of your own instead! 🐶🐾🐕🥰