Welcome to the family!

As most of you know - we have had some drama in our little family unit over the past few weeks. The drama has revolved around our youngest puppy, Louie. Louie had been very sick and was taken to the vet - where we discovered that she was poisoned with anti-freeze. We were to wait to see if she improved or if she would pass away. After staying with the vet for a week over Thanksgiving - we brought Louie home. It seemed as if she might have tempted fate and had been spared. Sadly that was not the case. After being home with us for about a week, Louie ran off to die. This was horribly traumatic for my little girls. We found Louie when Julie was just an infant herself - such a little squirt. At full grown she looked like a puppy still! The girls were crazy about her and she was such a calm dog. She didn't learn to bark until she was 6 months old! She was a pleasure to have while we did. :(

So... on with the story.

Yesterday we had a neighbor come to our house to ask us if we had lost a beagle puppy. For those of you that know my husband - he loves beagles. Loves, loves, loves them! We told her no and she said that this was the second one she had found dumped in the past two weeks (our road is awful for dumping - we found Louie the same way). She asked us if we wanted it and we said we didn't think so. We ARE still in mourning you know. She did say she would bring it up later so we could take a peek at it.

Needless to say...

it was love at first lick!

Meet Benny! I guess the good Lord new we needed a new member of our family. The second the girls got hold of him their little eyes lit up with such love. They were thrilled! He is such a good little fella. He has been going potty real good outside and we have been kenneling him. While we still miss Louie terribly and we will never forget her - our family needed this new little guy to help heal our hearts. He is NOTHING like our little Louie. He is a tank (just like Sophie). So watch out! Just look at Sophie's little face - my mom said she hoped that this dog was healthier than Louie and hoped he didn't have any problems. Sophie made sure to tell her, "Come on Maw-maw - we just got him today!" Yeah - don't bring us down! :)

So - we welcome Benny into our brood - looks like Donald has some more male back-up!