Today we had to move. The La Quinta is booked for tomorrow - some sort of convention in town??!? The momma and dad have a meeting at the house at 9am, so they drive us over to the Starbucks by our house so the momma can use their wi-fi (she can't find her wi-fi stick since the fire!). While they were inside, someone walked up and asked if they were the family with the bassets that had the fire? When the dad told her yes, she told us that she and her husband were so sorry to hear about the fire, but so glad that we all made it out OK! Word is spreading quickly!
Then the moma's friend Leena called to see what she could do to help (she's the momma to Gino who was a puppy when Teddi was and she says that she's Teddi's mother-in-law!). She helped the momma look up dog-friendly hotels on the internet. They found our next room at the Quality Inn in Castro Valley. They are holding a room for us from today until at least Friday!
We are meeting Catherine from Allstate and Maria from Restoration Management at 9am. Once again, the momma and dad wouldn't let us in the house, but made us wait in the backyard! The house STINKS SO BAD!! It gives the momma and dad a headache! Just being in there and seeing all of the stuff is hard! They told Catherine and Maria that they were planning on going thru their stuff 4th of July week when they both had vacation and seeing what they wanted to keep and what they were going to get rid of! Maria said that now they will have help 'cuz EVERYTHING has to come out of the house and be cleaned!
Maria's company will take everything out, inventory it, clean it and let us know if it is salvageable or not. She will give a list of things we need to throw out to Catherine so she can add it to the claim. They talk about a dry cleaning company coming to take thier clothes and cleaning them, too! Catherine gave the momma a check so that she could buy stuff that they need - shampoo, deodorant, hair brushes, tooth brushes or whatever and we all went to check into our new room!
It is REALLY nice! The beds are just a little bit softer (the momma ordered 2-queen sized beds so we can sleep with them!) and the pillows are so much softer, too! The TV has a lot more channels for the dad to choose from so he likes that a lot!
Then the momma gathered Sasha up ('cuz she's whiner) and drove back to the house to meet Rich from Allstate. He is our 3rd adjustor and is in charge of the structure! Catherine is in charge of our personal property and John is in charge of finding us a place to stay. Well, Lish called while the momma was talking to Rich. She works for a company called CRS and they've been hired by John to find us a rental house. Why do we need a place to rent? Because everyone that looks at our house says we will be moved out for 4-6 months!! YIKES! That's just CRAZY, right?!?! Well, she says she found one only 4 miles away from us and gave the momma the phone number of the guy to arrange a meeting. So, after talking with Rich, he used his GPS to find the new place so she knew where to go after collecting dad, Teddi and I and she made an appointment for 3pm to meet him.
Well - we didn't get out of the BUV, but we could tell that neither the momma or the dad were too happy about it. The yard was small and it just didn't feel safe, so they called Lish and told her to keep looking - maybe in the other direction towards Union City or Fremont and we went back to the hotel. When we got back up to the room, we all passed out so the momma texted our friends and told them we were all too tired to drive back to Union City for a play date and we'll see them on Wednesday! Well - that lasted for about 1-3/4 and when we woke up, Sasha and I starte wrestling in the hotel room so the momma took us to the Castro Valley Dog Park! When we were done, we went to Pet Food Express and she bought us new food bowls (our were lost in the fire), some more treats and some poo bags. She then tried to get us a pizza for dinner, but Pyzanno's is closed for remodeling, so she went to Safeway and got stuff for ice cream and we went back to the room!
Aunt Terry called up the momma about 9pm 'cuz we hadn't called Grandma all day and she was worried. We told her that we just had a busy day going from meeting to meeting and we'd call her tomorrow! Well - it's been a LONG day and we all need a nap, so sleep well and I'll type more tomorrow...
~Madden and the Smokin' Hot Hounds~
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