New dog! New Dog!

As you may or may not remember, I found a permanent home for the last dog, Sarah, just before Thanksgiving of last year. I was dogless for awhile, perfectly coinciding with all my holiday travelling, but I’ve got a new one. Say hello to… um.. Well, I’m just calling him the dog or boy.

As was Sarah, the new dog was a stray, so we have no way to tell what his name was. The rescue group gave him the name Dickens, which I think is only fractionally better than the last dogs new name. I wish they’d let me name the dogs. Anyhow, he doesn’t respond to Dickens, but he sorta responds to Buddy, which apparently is the most common dog name. He also does well with whistling, which is my preferred method.

He’s got a submissive peeing problem, which is really annoying, but we’re working on it. I can’t really train him to stay or anything until we get rid of the peeing thing. Anytime I try to get him to do anything other than sit or shaek, he cowers and pees on himself. He did get his first bath yesterday, so he finally smells good, ie not like dog urine. Awesome.

(I realized I never posted pictures of this fellow. 9 months later, here they are…)