When Jane was born Tyler took Trip to stay with him until we had a handle on life with three kids.

So while John and I missed sleep, changed diapers and broke up fights we didn’t also have to clean up dog barf, walk dogs and attempt to teach Trip manners. The theory was that Trip would stay with Tyler and get to do lots of hunting until John and I figured out how to survive life with three girls. I’m not sure we’ve got the three kid thing down yet but I missed my puppy enough that I convinced John we’d be fine if he came back home. After almost two months of living with this as our only dog…

…I was really excited to see Tyler pull in the driveway over the weekend!

By the time Tyler was ready to go home we had noticed that Trip was a bit more mellow,  happily sleeping under the desk while he was in the house and it looked like things would be just fine.

Which was good because I had zero intention of letting Tyler take him back home again.

So, Tyler said goodbye to Trip (and us), and things went great, for about 4 hours.

Then Trip got stuck under the brooder house and John had to use a car jack to lift the house and get him out.

Good thing it’s a four hour drive to Tyler’s or John may have taken him back that night!