ME has been wanting a smaller dog. King is getting to be an older boy (he'll be 8 in April and life expectancy is 12 years or so for a Standard) so we applied to Carolina Poodle Rescue and they found a little fella that they thought met our needs. So we went to north central South Carolina this weekend and decided to adopt Sammy (or Sammie - still to be determined). He's of undetermined age but likely 5 or so. He's having a bit of blood in his stool so we'll head to Dr. Bradler's tomorrow and get a workup and we hope she has a better guess at his age. So far he's being a good little fella and LOVES snuggling, an important skill for a little guy.
Kingsford is a little taken aback by this intruder. We get lots of looks like "When's this knothead going somewhere else?". We've told him it's forever but he's not yet ready to accept that, though a couple of episodes of spontaneous play have broken out. I'm pretty sure that sooner or later they'll be buds.
A new adventure begins.
The band around his middle is called a belly band. It has a pad under it and is supposed to limit territory marking as he settles in. We're letting him out a lot and watching him carefully for a few days then I hope we can ditch that thing. The adoption folks swear it's the way to go and I'm willing to try it.
And a shot of King, wondering what the heck is going on.
Woof!!
Dan
Kingsford is a little taken aback by this intruder. We get lots of looks like "When's this knothead going somewhere else?". We've told him it's forever but he's not yet ready to accept that, though a couple of episodes of spontaneous play have broken out. I'm pretty sure that sooner or later they'll be buds.
A new adventure begins.
The band around his middle is called a belly band. It has a pad under it and is supposed to limit territory marking as he settles in. We're letting him out a lot and watching him carefully for a few days then I hope we can ditch that thing. The adoption folks swear it's the way to go and I'm willing to try it.
And a shot of King, wondering what the heck is going on.
Woof!!
Dan
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