a.k.a. geeks take a leap of faith in real humans.

It started with the two of us deciding that there is only way to get what you want is. You just have to reach out and grab it! Of course, that’s not a novel idea, but in our case it meant that I quit my job to get a Weimaraner puppy, manage the household, and enter the murky world of self-employment. For the sake of brevity, I will focus on the acquisition of our little monster.

The wife has always wanted a puppy and we both love my parents’ Weimaraner, Shadow, so there was little question that we’d have to find our own gray ghost.

We wanted the whole puppy experience because the wife has never had one and it really is an experience everyone should have at least once in their life. So I started shopping around for a breeder in my usual fashion by googling for hours upon end.

However, after much googling, it became clear that selecting a breeder comes down to a leap of faith that your puppy will be healthy and a good companion. In other words, you have to put your trust in a human. With this hope in mind I selected a breeder hours away in Missouri. They had 2 female weimaraner pups left and promised to match the pup’s temperament with our stated preferences.

A couple weeks of impatient email exchanges ensued and we finally made a very anxious trip downstate to get our dog. We actually met the breeder’s driver halfway and synchronized up in a rural gas station parking lot. She simply popped open the minivan door and we saw half a dozen puppies making their way to a new home, including 2 gray ghost pups! There was a bit of a drumroll moment to see which pup we’d get, but the driver quickly scooped out the more shy Weim from the rear of their shares craw and plopped her in the wife’s arms. (That was a stroke of good fortune because my wife was already eyeballing up that one.) We paid the woman and the whole transaction was done in about 5 minutes.

So yeah, we had our little zelda. She was a cute little roll of fur who spent most of the ride curled up on our laps. I an surprised I didn’t drive off the road given what a cute little pup she was. She had her picture taken a few times with an iPhone on the way home.
Anyway, it was about a 4 hour drive home and then we had our own little gray pup!