We got a dog too

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My parents welcomed a new puppy into their household a week ago with open arms. Their 10 yr old German Shepherd and 12 yr old little mutt didn't. With much reluctance my mother offered the pup to Ginny and I so their two can live the rest of their years in peace.

She is a nine week old Silky Terrier that we're having a real hard time naming. Not the type of breed I'd choose but she needed a good home. The picture quality isn't great, camera phone shot.

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She's precious. When we got our mutt 4 months ago, the first thing I did was post his pic, too. Proud parents

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She's so cute! How about "Munch", short for "Munchkin"?

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How about Fuzzy or Blurry or 'Unfocused'.

TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

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Proud parents

Exactly!

I've been driving myself nuts reading info on pet shop dogs though. I really hope she doesn't have any temper faults when she gets older, personally I wouldn't buy a pup from a pet store. My parents, on the other hand, didn't know any better and didn't think how difficult it would be to socialize a 9 wk old pup w/ two old dogs. They got stressed out and were going to put an ad in the paper. Ginny and I had several long talks and decided we could give her a good home...

I've helped raise four dogs starting when I was in seventh grade but now we're on our own I feel like a over-concerned parent

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How about Fuzzy or Blurry or 'Unfocused'.

One more outburst like that, mister, and they're likely to take away my office. Random bouts of unexplained laughter scares some (old) people.

Along those lines, how about "B.G."? Because, honestly, we really don't know exactly what that dog looks like, but it seems cute through the beer lens.

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Yeah, that picture sucks! Learn to use a shitty cell phone camera!!

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didn't know any better and didn't think how difficult it would be to socialize

or thought about how horrible it is to support puppy mills

But, having said that, I do my best not to impose my views on others--to each their own. My parents, too, purchased their dogs--papillons. My entire family is a papillon family, having 2 or more each. I love them, too. Of course, they really wanted me to be the next generation of papillon-owners. Instead, I adopted and I LOVE my Labradeagle

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A Labradeagle eh? How big do those get, 40-50lbs?

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She has a name.

"Sydney"

That is all, thank you.

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As far as I know, we made up the name "Labradeagle"--for our Lab/Beagle mix.

He was 35 pounds when we adopted him. He's about 45 pounds now. The vet said he should be done growing. I'm hoping so!

He's the sweetest, smartest, greatest edition to our family. He's also very sweet with our kitties. He lays next to me surrounded by his toys while I'm working---only negative comment I can make is every once in a while he lets out a huge stinker and I'll be right in the middle of an important call. The dog gets up and leaves the room for a while--damn him

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