Welcome Duncan

Duncan is here, and fitting in marvelously. For a day or so there, it looked like we might get a different dog. I took the kids to a local airport to watch Animal Rescue Flights (volunteer pilots in small planes) fly in a bulldog/mastiff mix from the NYC area. Bowser was super sweet and gentle and "only" 80 lbs, and we all loved him. You can see some photos of the kids with him here, at the airport. Look under "photos" and then "11/9/08 - White Plains NY to Highgate VT".

BUT - turns out Bowser wants to eat small animals and is very dominant. Neither of those things will work for us, so we brought Duncan home for a trial run yesterday. The kids were a bit intimidated by his size, but by bedtime Zoe was throwing her arms around him, kissing him and calling him "Duncan-ee". He is very sweet and listens really well, although sometimes it takes a few repetitions for him to realize that you *really* mean "Stay."

Here he is sleeping in the office yesterday - he seems to purposely avoid the dog bed!