(That's us on the far left of the Big Blue Couch! Click the couch for a full-size version; thanks to Her Pegship for the image.)
Adoption Day!
Here we are, on January 27, at Tony LaRussa's Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF), about to bring Stella home:
Stella is a mixed breed. She has the build and head of an Australian shepherd (AKC definition, pictures), but with a shorter coat than seen in most of the pictures of that breed. She was rescued by ARF from an SPCA shelter around New Year's Day; she's about 3 years old and fully grown. The folks at ARF tell us she was probably overbred (she "dangles" quite a bit).
She is very quiet and calm—her favorite activity seems to be simply lying on the floor at someone's feet—until it looks like one or more of us is going out, when she will get agitated and make a lot of different sounds, from a wimper to a yowl to a full, mean-sounding bark. But she really is a sweet creature who just wants her humans around her. She's quiet when we're home, though the neighbors tell us she barks at passersby when we're away (and then settles down again quickly). She sleeps on the floor at the foot of Pete and Cathy's bed, and definitely lets us know when we're staying up too late. And she fits right into the family in another way; she seems to have hay fever! She gets sneezing fits and bleary eyes from time to time.
(Australian shepherds weren't bred in Australia; they were bred in the United States in order to herd flocks of sheep brought here from Australia in the 1800s.)
Photos and Links
Photos from PJ and Sally Ann's first time ice skating are posted here.
Photos from Cathy's first ever trip to New York City are posted here!
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