Thank you! Yes,I do feel honored - I believe they had something like 139 applicants in less than 24 hours. We've only had him since Sunday night and are following their procedures for a slow introduction because we want to make sure we do it right and we all live happily ever after, lol.
He is a sweet boy - small 14 pounds at 7 months- but not as small as T, she's only 16 pounds full grown. He's a little taller than her, and a little longer and thinner than she is - and when you have him one on one without other dogs around, he is a big mush! Loves to cuddle and fall asleep on you. But as we found out, with the other dogs around he is 100% bouncing puppy who wants to play, play play! DiMaggio must be thinking, oh no not again - but he is handling it well. Tallulah, who I do believe will love having someone to puppy play with, is just a little leery yet and not quite sure if she wants to jump in there and play, or be the "alpha" and yell at him, lol.
His name has been a hot debate and with 6 family members who all have to agree, not an easy task! I do believe that we have agreed on naming him Manning - after Eli on the NY Giants of course! He was born on Oct 10th ( 10/10) and Eli's number is #10 and we wanted to keep with the sports name theme for our males. I liked Eli but was out voted so Manning seems to fit. We'll see if it sticks otherwise, it's back to the drawing board, lol.
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