photo(7)Lots of things have been going on behind the scenes here at Chez Rahn, but one of the biggest is the new members of our family.  This is Leo (blue) and Chester (red).  It took us a long time after we lost our Lucy in April to decide we were ready for another dog.  And we weren’t going to get a puppy and we most certainly weren’t going to get two.  But then these two happened.

They are brothers, almost 7 months old and are lab/springer spaniel mutts.  We met both parent dogs who were absolute sweethearts.  These two were almost the last of a large litter and their people were really trying to find them good homes. In fact, we realized that our Lucy was part of an overstock clearance sale and these two were a buy-one-get-one-free.  I guess we like dog bargains. They were such good buddies we couldn’t not take them both.  It’s crazy, but it just had to be.

They are already each 50+ lbs, so they are very grown up.  No roly-poly puppies here.  They grew up on a farm belonging to a family friend and we have been introducing them to the adventures of living in the city for the past 3 weeks:  riding in the car (not fans), going to the vet to get neutered (riding in the car is worse), airplanes flying over (WTF!), leashes, kids at bus stops, mud puddles (hooray!) and more.

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