“Mom please please please,” Paige and I pleaded. Paige is my sister, she is newly eleven and she is very annoying. Paige is the type of person who will only want a few things, but when she wants something, she really wants it. For example, my sister and I have wanted to get another dog after our old dog, Guinness, had passed away two and a half years ago.  Guinness was my first sister, and the only pet I had ever had. My whole family was very attached to her so it was very devastating. After a year my sister, father, and I were ready for a new pet, but my mother was not ready.
“Guys, I´ve told you. I do not think that I am ready for another dog.” My mother told us this over and over again but we still ask. Before there was Paige and I, there was Guinness. She was a black lab, she was my parents first baby, they took her everywhere. Guinness was very hyper, even when she was thirteen years old, which is pretty old for a big dog. She passed away almost two and a half years ago, but my mother could not let go. She made my sister many promises of getting a dog. Last november my sister asked for a dog for her birthday, my mom said that we could in the spring. And once spring rolled around, she still could not bring herself to, in her words “replace” Guinness. But  this past summer my sister was pressing for a dog, it was the one thing that she would go on and on about. My mom was hesitant to entertain the idea. But all of August there were signs to get a yellow lab. My family wanted to get a black lab because that was what our family was used too. In August for a few weeks she would come home and tell us about one cute yellow lab that she saw at the park, or at work, or where ever she would be that day. These were all the signs. But the next one that happened was the confirmation that we should get a yellow lab. When we were down the shore at our shore house and, there was a yellow lab running up and down the sand bar. When the owner came near us to get him, my mother and her started talking. Little did I know what they were talking about.
My mom came home and told us what she had been told. The lady was getting another yellow labrador puppy, from the same place they got their 5 year old lab. My mother was very interested in this breeder, so we looked it up. As it turns out there was the new litter of 5 yellow labrador puppies for sale. As my parents looked into the place and the pricing Paige and I got more and more anxious. Just when we had forgotten about the whole thing, my dad birthday rolled around, August 31. It was the day before his birthday and we were very excited. That day my mom was hinting that we were going to get a puppy, my sister and I were ecstatic.
We had to ride 2 hours to the breeder to get our new dog. We stopped at a petco to get her cage and bed, then we continued on to Pennsylvania. As we approached the two hours in the car we turned onto a side road. When we pulled into a driveway, where the breeder lived, this driveway connected a farmhouse and barn to the road. This place was so peaceful and beautiful. When we got out of the car four labrador puppies came sprinting out of their pen to come and greet us. They were so small, and soft I fell in love. These puppies did not stop playing for the hour my sister and I played with them, then my parents asked us which one we wanted, my sister said all of them. I said that I wanted the puppy that had darker rims around her ears, and she was a mix between light yellow and light gold. My parents and sister agreed. She was the perfect fit for our family.
After we had signed everything to officially own the dog we made our trip back to New Jersey. On the way back the dog was so scared to be in the car, but my sister and I did our best to comfort her, she soon dozed off. As she slept for the whole ride, we all brainstormed names. My sister and I thought that Tucker would be a good name because we have a shore house in Tuckerton. The name was decided, and we welcomed the new member of our family Tucker Stierle! Even though we have a new dog, Tucker, it does not mean that we have replaced our old dog, Guinness. We know in our hearts that guinness would have been happy with Tucker. Both Tucker and Guinness will be special to all of us forever.