New canine addition for the holiday

[njsteve]

Our new addition.

We went to the grand opening of the new Tractor Supply Store in town a couple weeks ago. They had the local puppy rescue service there with a bunch of their adoptable critters. Of course I made the mistake of taking the family with me.

Just to keep the family quiet I filled out an application knowing full well that someone out of the 200+ people before us that signed up for this particular pup would get him, leaving me in the clear.

Of course we get the call two days later congratulating us. It turned out that out of those 200+ applications, just about all of them were disqualified! The rescue person read us some of their answers to the basic questions. They were scary.

Here's a sample of answers to the question "Where will you keep this dog?"

Sample answer:
1) "On my balcony on the 23rd floor."
2) "Tied to the same tree my other dogs are tied to."
3) "In the garage if the temperature gets below zero."

So I guess our answer of "In the house or in our fenced 2-acre yard when it's warm out" must have sounded miraculous to them.

His name is Widget, which as you may know, is the technical term for a hypothetical mechanical device of dubious usefulness.

He is about the size of a sub sandwich. We think he is Jack Russell and Dachshund.



Here's Widget being crushed by one of our other dogs, a female Basenji (also a rescue dog). Just to give you an idea of relative sizes, she weighs 17 pounds. In the background is our other Basenji. He's a grumpy 8-year old who went blind as a puppy from the genetic eye disorder PRA. He really doesn't know he's blind, he has adapted very well over the years. He's just curmudgeonly, which is a Basenji trait anyway.




The wife was preparing the house for the Holiday season. I heard a rustling sound and saw the pile of plastic wreaths moving. I pulled the top wreath off and there he was. This is his commentary on the season: