mzung-zoo!!!

We're still getting a goat. DON'T WORRY. But now we also have a puppy!! We are creating a mzung-zoo!!!

Alternative name for this post: "A poopless dog is like a seedless watermelon. Convenient, but a little weird." (credit Jess Bloome) But then she pooped!!! Huge victory. I feel like a parent.

So we saw some people handing two puppies over a school wall, and as soon as we saw Ellie (short for Elephant) we were in love. I was a little worried about how much work she would be, and it turns out I was right about that part. I think she was too young to be taken from her mother, so at first she cried all night and we had a really hard time feeding her. Here Katie is trying to feed her with a hole in a plastic bag:

Luckily we discovered on day 2 that she would lap milk out of our hands. Well, a weird milk-egg-oil-vitamin formula I found online. And on Day 3, she started taking it out of a dish! HOORAY!! It's only slightly less messy, but still. Now we have 2 messy kids AND a messy dog. The dog is more work, though. Katie and I trade off taking care of the dog overnight, since she wakes us up to eat and whine whine whine!

But she's so cute!

I think she's doing much better. She doesn't cry as much during the night anymore, she's pooped and her pee is clear, and now she's playing!! SO CUTE


Yay! Puppy wuppy. At least she'll be well socialized, since there are about 1 million children over here all the time. Wish us luck taking care of her!