Livin' in a dog house now!

Is it fall yet?....Are you sure??... Well in my little world (the hubby calls it crazy land) i am going to pretend that it is.

Heat is not my friend right now. Especially when I am trying to take duke for a walk.... .....who's duke? oh yaaa............................... DUKE IS OUR NEW DOG!!!!!! :) :)

Meet duke!

duke, meet invisible blog reading friends....








(forgive the lacking picture quality....empty internet space is SO hard to photograph...wink wink)

Duke is our wonderful new addition to our little family. He is a rescue German Shephard / Husky mix and the sweetest dang dog you will EVER meet. (sshhhh just don't tell lurking burglars)...

No, actually he is an impressive guard dog as well. I was putting hunter in his pj's one night ( duke was laying quietly at the door keeping watch) and a door slammed or something on tv in the living room and i thought duke was going to TAKE OUT A WALL getting to the front of the house to see who the heck just entered his territory. Scared me to death that's for sure so i'm sold. Plus, he has that whole alert look...especially when he is watching over hunter..

and his milder moments...(he doesn't leave hunter's side very often...especially during his breathing treatments...)

Someone found duke about an hour from us. They took him in for a few days and looked around to see if he had an owner... when that didn't work they sent out an email looking for him a home before taking him into a clinic. Well, luck have it, a friend was on that email chain and sent it to us (knowing we had been looking) and POOOOF! long story short... hubby went and picked up our new 4-legged baby!...and we now possess someone that actually wears hunter out!!

I picked up Hunter that day while daddy picked up duke and I got to surprise hunter with, "We are getting a new dog!" Hunter was sooo excited. We went to Petsmart, where we met up with daddy and duke and did some shopping for our new family member. Leeet's just say he is a little spoiled...

While at PetSmart, random kiddos were coming up and bear hugging duke like they had known him a lifetime.....and what was even better was.....HE WAS LETTING THEM! Perfect strangers he had never met and yet he was instant best friends with them. After that it was time to go home and introduce him to our other 4-legged baby, watson.

Watson was our first rescue baby we got 9 years ago!! He is a senior citizen now but you wouldn't know it until his arthritis kicks in! It took duke a day or two to figure out how he needed to play with watson but as soon as he did, let the playing begin!

What is even better is Duke is completely submissive to watson. Watson sheepdogs him! Watson will guide him and herd him where he wants him to go...especially if he thinks duke is being to rough with hunter (he's not but its nice to know watson is a surrogate mom :) )...watson will put himself between duke and hunter and basically tell duke to back it off if doesn't like how they are playing....Man we love this dog. hunter is pretty attached to him too...

Watson and hunter have been buds since birth. Weeell except for the first night we brought hunter home and he was up all night because mom did not have a clue on this nursing thing yet... watson kind of disgustingly huffed at us and walked out of the room like "WHAT have you two done.."... HA....Well now they are besties.

(insert song in head "imagine me and you, and you and me...no matter how you toss the dice it had to be, the only one for me is you, and you for me... So happy tooogetther!!!")

With the five of us now, it is obvious who runs the house... all I can say is that we are livin' in the dog house now!..

Here's to loving our babies...no matter how many legs they have. :)

Sending you all our love from texas!!