Our new Puppy

If you haven't been following my updates elsewhere, you may have missed that we got a new puppy. (Let's face it, if you're not following me elsewhere I have no idea how you end up here, but that's besides the point...)

We knew for a while that we wanted to get a puppy this year, and we had planned on waiting until the fall after we get back from Italy. But sometimes the right dog comes along and you just have to change plans. Our friend, Julie, knew that we were thinking about finding a labrador / newfoundland mix and she sent us text messages last week to let us know that the Boulder Humane Society had just gotten some puppies that fit the description. Christine was out of town, but she immediately fell in love with one. I put him on hold the next morning and went down in the afternoon to "test drive" him.  He was a cute and fun puppy, but I also played with another lab-newfie that I really liked. He was more newfie than lab with his fuzzy head and big paws. I put him on hold too.


He was really trying to win me over, but I wasn't willing to take home a puppy until Christine got to play with him too.


Sunday afternoon we went down to Boulder to play with puppies.  They were both so cute so it was a tough decision, and we took long enough that the shelter was starting to close. Christine wanted to put the fuzzy one on hold for another day so she could sleep on it, but we couldn't do that. When Christine felt like she couldn't take the risk of this dog going home with someone else, she knew we had to take him home. So we did. :)


He came with the name Melvin, but we're changing that.  We don't know just yet what it's going to be, but hopefully we'll figure it out soon so we can stop calling him "puppy". Kuzca is used to being an only child, so it's taking some time to adjust. Mostly the puppy tries to play with her, and she just looks annoyed.  Last night, though, they had a great time playing in the yard.  It was so fun to watch them play together.








Unlike Kuzca, the puppy appears to like water.  While Kuzca tries to avoid sprinklers as much as possible on our walks, the puppy is intrigued and walks through them. It makes for an interesting juggling act of leash ballet. Kuzca mostly lets the puppy push her around because she knows she'll get in trouble if she knocks him around too much.  Before too long, she wont have a choice.  At 3 months, he's already 27 pounds, so he should get to be pretty large. For right now, he's still good at being a lap snuggle dog.

Some of our puppy pics and videos are up on Flickr: New Puppy set.