A new furry family member!

Well, we came home from San Antonio with a new furry family member. The dog, Zeus, was Vinny's cousins and they had had him since he was a puppy because the dog's dad is Vinny's other cousin dog. I was a little worried at first because Zeus is a much bigger dog than I am used to and we Ty is still really small. Tucker and Trey were thrilled about the idea of having a 'big' dog in the house. After playing with him in the backyard and walking him around on a leash..we decided he seemed like a pretty good dog, so we loaded him up in the suburban and brought him home.

Well, as it turns out, he is not just a good dog, but a great dog! Ty absolutely LOVES Zeus and Zeus does such a great job with Ty. Ty can climb all over him, poke him, try to ride him, and Ty has even taken food right out of Zeus's mouth and Zeus just lays there. If he does get tired of Ty, he gets up, walks away, and goes lays down in his bed. Tucker loves having Zeus around and they play out in the backyard together..running around together. Trey is more indifferent about having Zeus around. Vinny LOVES having a big dog.

Zeus is a pretty big dog, but he is deathly afraid of our cat Mocha and Mocha is not one bit afraid of Zeus. He is a little bit on the lazy side, but he doesn't jump up on us or on the furniture and he doesn't bark all that much either. He licks a LOT..but I will take licking over jumping and barking any day! He is a great addition to our family!

You might wonder why I haven't mentioned anything about how Zeus is doing with our other dog Terry...Well, we didn't have any problems with the two of them and they were getting along great, but sadly the Saturday after Thanksgiving Terry got out of our backyard and was hit by a car right on our main street in the community and she didn't make it. We are all really sad about this (especially me because she was definitely MY dog...), but at least we still have Zeus...if we didn't this would have been a lot harder for the boys to handle.