New Addition To The Family....

Meet Koby.



He's a 12 week old soft haired wheaten terrier. We picked him up 4 weeks ago from the pet store at the Paramus Park Mall. We had been on the lookout for quite some time for a puppy for the family. Our previous attempt at ownership of a dog didn't work out so well.

While in the pet store looking at the puppies, a couple of them looked promising. Thomas, of course, took a liking to the baby cocker spaniel that resembled Lady from Lady and the Tramp. But she was too expensive and not hypoallergenic. We saw the terrier pup and asked how much. Reasonable price, so we asked the girl if we could visit with him in one of the little cubicles there. So I took the boys and we got into the cubicle and waited for the girl to bring the puppy over to us. The cubicle was roughly 6 foot by 6 foot with a bench along the back wall. The door to the cubicle was half the height of a normal door and had a large plexiglass window.

I was sitting on the floor when the girl handed me the puppy. The boys were up on the bench and refused to get down. Not a good start! After a couple of minutes Thomas got down and let the puppy run over his feet. Eventually he sat on my lap and played with the puppy. Nicky needed a lot more convincing but he eventually joined us and played with the puppy. Alexis was a whole nother story story. She screamed bloody murder when Jennie tried to hand her to me. At home - she's a whole different person (more on that later). The rest of the process of buying the pup was pretty boring so I'll spare everyone the details.

It's been 4 weeks now and he's grown quite a bit. He was only about 5 pounds when we got him and he's probably double that now. He's got a check-up tomorrow so we'll find out exactly how big he is then. His house training is coming along slowly. He pees or poops almost every time he goes outside, so that's good. Inside, he's getting better at holding it in. He'll get the hang of it eventually.

The kids have been absolutely wonderful with him, especially Alexis. The two of them are almost inseparable. Nicky still gets scared of him from time to time, but we expected that out of our little chicken of a son, so that's alright. Since Koby is still a puppy, he nips from time to time. But the kids have learned that if they tell him "No" that he'll stop.

More on Alexis and Koby....
Alexis is definitely Koby's favorite kid. She can do just about anything to him and he'll let her. And she returns the favor. She'll lay down on the floor on her stomach then call for him to come over to jump and climb all over her. They get along great.




So that's our new addition to the family.