As a few people know, we acquired a new family member over the weekend. His name is "Buddy" and he is a Jack Russell Terrier. We adopted him from the local animal shelter. He had been surrendered to the shelter because he was quite the escape artist from his original owner's home and had landed at the pound 9 times. So we know this going into this gig. He is extremely sweet, but very stealth like, and I can see how he could be an escapee. I opened the door to the laundry room and I happened to turn and look behind me, and there he was trying to bolt past me...but he was sooo quiet I didn't know he had snuck up behind me. The other challenging aspect is that he is deaf. He does know some signing, and you never have to worry about calling him for dinner because he always foraging for food. The funniest thing so far was when I asked Ryan to find him one day over the weekend in the house and he starts calling very loudly in a sing song voice "Buddy, Buddy...where are you?" and Patrick, very matter of factly, in the exact same sing song voice yells to Ryan, "He's deaf, He's deaf"...Ryan stops dead in his tracks and says, "oohh, yeah he is".
While we will love this dog just as much as we did Lacey and do love Timmy, he will never take the place of her, but he will build his own special little spot in each of our hearts, I'm sure of that!
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