May I introduce the newest member of the Huffman-Saunders household... BUDDHA!

*Socutelovelovelove*

Okay, so he's not really a puppy so much as a 2-year-old Beagle Cardigan Welsh Corgi cross, but he's only 25lbs so he kind of has that small dog perma-puppy look. He's adorable~ After a week of puppy hunting and many almost triumphs-turned-disappointments, we went down to the Edmonton Humane Society on Wednesday to actually look at a 4 month old black lab -- only the little lab had just been adopted barely a half hour before we arrived. Dejected and once again disappointed, we wandered through the other kennels and unexpectedly fell absolutely in love with this little guy (previously named Burt. I think Buddha fits him much better.)

He was apparently adopted once before us but was returned after less than a week because he was apparently too energetic and hyper. o_O We haven't noticed anything like that, at least not like collie-active, he seems pretty average on dog scale of activeness. He's surprisingly well behaved (just found dog borrowing through bathroom garbage pail, came around the corner with my old toothbrush in his mouth. Sigh.) too considering he has no training with basic commands yet -- he's housetrained already and doesn't bark often or chew on your slippers or anything. He's a little too large to be a lap dog, but boy does he try. He likes to cuddle with us on the couch. Buddha's very friendly with people but gets a little spaztastic around other dogs.

I have yet to introduce him to the smell of the bunny, so for now Toby's door is remaining closed. We're going to wait until the dog settles into the house and we really learn his personality and then we'll slowly start introducing the scent of the bunny to him. As for Toby himself, he was a little "WTF" the first time I came into his room covered in dog smell, but his twitchiness has mellowed considerably and he seems to be carrying on with life as usual.

With him being part beagle we're going to be extra careful with the training to ignore the rabbit, though to be completely honest we can't see where the beagle is in him. He looks a lot more like a lab-corgi cross than a beagle-corgi, but we'll see what the vet thinks when we bring him in next week. That appointment should be interesting considering it'll be the first time since the shelter he's been around other dogs, not to mention I think he already has a firm dislike of the vet. When they brought him out of his exit exam at the SPCA he looked like he'd just been violated in some awful way, which technically he probably was. A thermometer up the rear can't be fun. Poor puppy. *Hugs*