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Once again, I haven’t written for a while… It was a little tough to follow up a post that still makes me want to cry!

As it turns out, there wasn’t a puppy-vacancy in our house for very long.  One vacancy has been filled by an Australian cattle dog mix little girl, who is probaby around 6 months old, who is, as of right now, still nameless.  I’ve only seen her for a short period of time, when we took Grover to the humane society to meet his potential new sister.  I had to leave for China on the day she was coming home, so I haven’t seen her in her new home yet.  From what I hear, she was very happy the first few days to let Grover be the big brother alpha dog, and he was happy to do it.  Now, however, she’s figured out that she’s bigger, and she’s a herding dog, and has taken to herding him away from where she wants to be (on the couch, on someone’s lap, on the puppy-beds…)  He’s still getting lots of love, though, so no worries there… She has also figured out how to get to, and eat, the cat’s food – yes, the food that sits up on a special shelf so that dogs (theoretically) can’t get to it (not to mention that the only exercise the cat gets is when she has to jump up on her shelf for sustenance).  So, after having a house full pretty mellow elderly dogs and a fairly mellow Schnauz, it should be quite an experience to have a young pup!