Deco Umbrellas: My Dog is Awesome

I have a golden retriever and her name is Penny. I first met Penny when she was about eight weeks old. Maybe it was six but I'm pretty sure that it was eight. She was the reddest golden retriever puppy there and the second biggest. She fell asleep on my lap after playing with me for a few minutes. My mother wanted to get the lightest female puppy there and name her Lilly. She had some weird obsession with that name at the time... we had a Persian cat named Lilly and she wanted the dog to have the same name.

My mother wasn't quite ready for a dog because we had an amazing golden retriever that had died a year or two before visiting the new puppies. She told me that I ultimately had the final say in the puppy we were getting (only not really because she would have told me hell no if I wanted a puppy that she absolutely did not want, like a dog from the pound). Of course, I wanted the little red one that was awesome. She had a few trepidations about getting the little red dog, but I'm pretty sure it was just because she wouldn't be able to name a setter-red golden retriever Lilly. Thank the good Lord. I didn't want another animal named Lilly. It's bad enough that the cats original name was Licky and she hated it so much that she needed to change it.

The dog whined the entire way home and my mother kept complaining about how our first golden didn't do that and how she was nothing like her. No shit, it's a different dog.