Thursday, June 25, 2009

Welcome, Paolo!

We had to say final goodbyes to Lucy last December, and to Bogie on Memorial Day weekend. The losses of her friends left our other shar pei, Jazzy, without a playmate, and thoroughly bored. Well, that all ended on June 15, when Apollo came to us all the way from Tamaqua, Pennsylvania.

Apollo is a 7-month old springer spaniel with tons of energy. He is blind in one eye and has limited sight in the other, but that does not keep him from playing with great enthusiasm and vigor. Neither Bonnie nor I care for the name Apollo, but he had such a strenuous transition that we did not want to add to his confusion with a name change. We decided that if we call him Paolo he will probably not notice the difference.

Paolo and Jazz took to each other immediately. Paolo, Bonnie, and I are still undergoing our "period of adjustment," but we see improvements everyday.

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