Puppy Love

 Cody has been wanting a dog for a long time, and I had told him he had to wait for me to go pick one out.  While in Michigan he had been checking the website and saw a dog he thought he liked so he wanted to go look before someone else adopted him. So the day we got back from our honeymoon we headed over to the humane society.

The dog he thought he wanted was a mix between a great dane and a corgi.

Really big tall dog and really short dog.  Awkward.

He was only a puppy but he was huge!  It took up two of the little cages they keep the puppies in, and was close to needed a third.  Way too big for us!  We looked around at all the others and I found this little guy.  

He was pretty darn cute so we got him out and played with him for awhile. They told us he was a hound mix and would be about 40-50 pounds.  He had arrived the day before and had been found wandering around on one of the interstates here in town.  We had to wait for two days to pick him up so they could finish neutering and giving him some shots, which gave us plenty of time to go buy all the things he would need.

I was super worried about how Zoey would adjust to the big move and new puppy. The first day she pretty much hid behind the washing machine but slowly began exploring and getting comfortable with the house.  Then Maxx came home.  I thought she would hide again but she did pretty good holding her ground and investigating Maxx. 

He's grown so much! Almost twice as big as Zoey now.

They still do pretty good together.  Maxx just wants to play, but makes Zoey a bit nervous because he is a little rough and hyper.  Although she has definitely established her dominance as queen bee in the house! I found them one day under the kitchen table with Maxx laying completely flat and every time he would try to sit up Z would smack him back down. I'm sure as he gets older and calmer they will get along even better. Hopefully...