Our New Addition

First night home 

Today we added a new addition to our family, a little puppy.  We haven't given him a name yet.  He came from my sister's in-law's house and was one of four puppies left, three boys and a girl.  They looked sad to me, kenneled and hot, covered in fleas and we felt like we were rescuing him.  My daughter had wanted a puppy for a very long time, every since she lost her closest companion Jack, a chihuahua she had for three years.  Since then she found another puppy, a toy chihuahua we got from a feed store in town which died of parvo ten days after we got him.  So this puppy took a lot of decision making for her.  He is three and a half months old, father is a Jack Russell and mother is a Rat Terrier.  Both of them in pretty sad shape as well, chained to separate trees on about four foot long ropes.  Sad.  But after two days of grueling contemplation and repeat visits to the puppies and their parents, Meagan decided on this little guy.  He weighs about 5 pounds at best, is covered in fleas, skinny and his skin is in pretty bad shape.  As soon as he got to the house tonight she brought him straight to the bathtub and washed him twice using Dawn dishwashing soap to kill the fleas followed by Johnson's baby shampoo for more of the same and to help his skin.  She fed him and watered him and he seems to think he is in heaven.  Deciding on a name.  He seems very smart.