New Kid On The Block!

So we finally did it, went out and got another doggie.

Betsy had been poking about on petfinder.com for quite some time now, so I decided that when I got my final Xmas gift from her (a Slusho shirt!, http://slusho.jp) I'd give her a card entitling her to one pound puppy.
That was Thursday evening, it's now Saturday, and we've had our dog since about noon.

We got her at the Humane Society of Harrison County.
We hadn't decided on her yet, in fact the picture that they had of her really wasn't all that great looking, but we picked there first because they were open, they didn't require a home visit, and I was sure that once we went in a shelter that we'd find a suitable creature no matter where we went. We wanted to give some doggie another chance.

They had named her Thumper, and here's the photo they had on the site-

They had a few other suitable doggies, and any of them would have been great, but she was the sweetest at first and tried really hard to push on the fence when Betsy was petting her. We petted them all, and they were all nice. Too nice, cause we had to make a decision, and it wasn't going to be easy.

But we ended up taking her home.
Everyone should take a dog home from a shelter.

Once we got her home we let her sniff everywhere and most everything. She didn't even start to attack any of the numerous kids hanging around in very exposed places.
Here's a pretty good shot of her and the cute face-

Betsy really likes her freckled ear-

I like her almost "Corgi" or some other dog look to her face, just can't place it just yet-

Got a pretty thick coat of short ivory hair. Little somewhat turned up nose. And right now a pink little belly from her recent operation. She's a bit larger than Anni, but I'm sure they're going to be good buddies and JR promised that they'd be up this next week to get acquainted and play.
She's also kind of weird/normal looking sometimes when you view her from the side-


But you know, she's only about 8 months old, she's still got some growing to do and she's spent the last couple months living in a shelter.
We think she's plenty wonderful just how she is right now.

Got plenty of spunk too as she drug Betsy *up* from the Dog Park (yes, we took her to the Dog Park already. Wanted to see Dave M. and also cause dD never wanted or would go).
*Up* all the steps and I was forced to play catch up to them. Our new critter likes to go hard!

The rest of the kids are a little leery, but I'm sure as long as she doesn't chew, mangle, or maim them everything will be just fine in our little home-

Someone, somewhere had decided that she was a Jack Russel Mix, which I'm not so sure about, but hey, she's probably got a bit of lots in her.

We're think of naming her Jackie (as in Jackie O) or maybe Cory. We'd better think of something soon though.
Also, she was a birthday gift for Cheeto, though he's not super sure of that decision now...