Tuesday, May 24, 2011

It's a Boy & Happy Father's Day!

I am so rarely ahead of schedule these days that I am proud to have already said Happy Father's Day to Jared 3+ weeks ahead of time. Can you believe it? Jared is so excited to welcome another male into the house. Welcome to craziness! I think that once you have a lot of chaos a little more doesn't even rock the boat. Welcome to the family Max!
Max is a 4 year old Golden Retriever and is seriously the calmest dog ever. We adopted him through Adopt a Golden Atlanta and HIGHLY recommend them if you're interested in getting a dog. We met him on Sunday for a home visit to see how we all interacted together. The girls thought that HK was getting a dog visit for her birthday (so that if it didn't work out there were no expectations) and were very excited. After Max left we talked about it and decided that he was such a sweet calm dog that we couldn't let him go! We picked him up and brought him home for good on Monday.

Matney is in LOVE with Max. I am pretty sure that she thinks he is her personal puppy dog. She talks to him all the time - "No Max. Do this Max. Come here Max." and he just follows her around. I took this particular picture when they'd been sitting like this for 10+ minutes. She was playing and talking to him and he just sat and listened. So sweet.

HK can take him or leave him most of the time. She thinks he is very funny but wants to make sure that he's not going to steal any of her attention. She has woken up saying "Where's my puppy dog?" for two days.

Max and I are becoming friends too. I even have nasty dirty feet from being in the yard with him tossing tennis balls all afternoon.

Funniest thing about him is that he wants to "hold hands". No matter where you're sitting he comes over, puts his paw on your leg and wants you to rub it....and if you don't he keeps pawing at you until you keep rubbing. Max was trained as a service dog for an autistic child. That placement didn't work out because the child didn't like/wasn't good with the dog. The training did work because Max is the calmest dog ever. We had more than 10 kids in the house today (shew! it was wild!!) and he sat and watched them never once barked, ran, chased, bothered, etc after them. He just sat calmly and watched. Such an easy transition to a dog in the house!

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