Puppy Update

It's been just over two weeks now, and despite only sleeping through the night twice and having to be continuously vigilant about his whereabouts, we're really enjoying Mani. We're very ready for his puppy teeth to fall out (as is our furniture). He's definitely grown a lot in the last two weeks, though not quite enough for him not to fit behind our couch or under the bed when he's trying to hide from us. We've been trying to socialize him with other dogs whenever we can. In addition, let us present Exibit A for his reign as the smartest puppy ever:

I'm sure his intelligence is going to wreak havoc eventually, but for now it's just fun. Shake took him about three times to learn, and roll over took about two days! Any suggestions for tricks we should challenge him with now would be welcome. Here are some more pictures!

Fearless Mani trying to steal a stick from 90 lb. Hudson

Snuggling and kisses for C.J.

The DeGroot Family Grows

The DeGroot family is growing by 1.....!!


We got a 3 month old puppy yesterday! For those of you who know that we have been saying all along that we didn't want a puppy (instead we wanted a house-trained, more than 1 year old dog), just let the pictures do the talking....This one stole our hearts! He is a german shepherd/collie mix (I know, I know...HAIR!) and we have named him Mani (which means peanut in Peruvian Spanish). Our first night with him went reasonably well, and we've only had 3 small accidents on carpet. We'll get there! He is a total snuggler and we're going to have a lot of fun!