Meet Chance!

Just because things were getting a little to easy and predictable around the house, we thought we'd add something to the mix - or rather, someone to our family! I introduce to you, our new puppy, Chance!

Chance would be a perfect poster child to help change the stigma that surrounds pitbulls. I have never (sorry Rufus) met a sweeter dog. He is 5 months old, and so well behaved it's almost uncanny. We keep wondering if something is wrong with him because it has been such a smooth transition. The only "puppy" issue we are still working on is potty training at night, but by housing him in the kitchen, it's pretty easy clean up. He's already learning to stand at the door to signal it's time to go potty. (At his old house, they had free run to come and go whenever.) All he wants to do is get love from you... and hands down the best part, he'll even take love from Rufus. We have been contemplating getting a playmate for Rufus for some time now. He does seem so bored during the day when we are at work. We've even done a handful of meet and greets with dogs at the local shelter trying to find a good match. There has just never been a gut feeling of this is the one, there was always some doubt. So, we agreed to take Chance on a trial basis, with the caveat that he and Rufus meshed well. So we headed home and upon tons of google research, the first thing we did straight off the bat was go for a walk. Which... had an unsuspecting challenge. Chance had never been on a leash before. So it took Josh going ahead with Rufus and giving us a few minutes for Chance to start to get the hint. Rufus really had to focus (thats my boy) on walking and not turning around to sniff butts, but by the time we got the park down the street they were galloping around each other like baby horses and Josh and I were hopeful. Over the next few days their bond only increased as Chance started to become familiar with us. Rufus still likes his alone time when it's time to go to sleep but will begrudgingly allow Chance to spoon once in a while. The best part hands down is their budding friendship. Rufus is easily double the size of Chance, and yet, when they play, you see Rufus going belly up and letting Chance get plenty of opportunities to take over and get a few playful jabs in. It truly warms my heart to watch!

Sorry for the awful picture, their noses get the window dirty in 2 seconds flat! But they are definitely buds!!

On a quick side note... Teddy's tracker says 111 more days to go, can't wait to break 100!!!