Introducing Our New Golden Retriever: Tesla!¶

On Monday we brought home a puppy!

Her name is Tesla and she’s a Golden Retriever. We named her after the scientist, Nikola Tesla , not the car. Had she been a boy, her name would’ve been Kepler.

Huge thanks to Patricia Bass-Walker for breeding beautiful Golden Retrievers .

Some early reflections on puppy-hood:

• There’s a difference between obedience and control. I can’t control Tesla but I can train her to be obedient. Note the verb there. I don’t “obedient” Tesla. I train Tesla. The fruit of that training is obedience. I’m three days in and that’s already a hard lesson.
• I can’t image what having a baby is like and I’m told it’s harder than a puppy. Yikes.

She is a bundle of fun.