Oscar de la Redwood

Sarah Beth finally got her puppy last week. Although Tobias was the top vote getter, Jack reminded me that the voting results were never legal nor binding. He still wanted to name him Oscar, and Sarah Beth and I agreed that while Oscar would be his official name, we would still call him Puppy. Even though he looks more like a Toby.

SB was very excited to meet him, and I think it has finally set in that he is really ours to keep. Puppy is the first thing she asks for in the morning and her first thought after naptime. If Jack is home, Oscar is an inside dog, but when Daddy is away, Puppy plays outside. I'm tired of scrubbing my carpet.

Jack is afraid that Oscar is too tiny to stay outside by himself. Here is a paraphrased version of our first conversation regarding where Oscar was to live:

Me: I would prefer that he stay outside.

Jack: Well, I think he should stay inside, at least until he gets a little bigger.

Me: He will be fine outside.

Jack: He can't stay outside. Another animal might eat him.

Me: What animal in our neighborhood is going to eat our dog?

Jack: A cat.

Seriously?

So he stays inside sometimes during the day (when Jack is home), and he sleeps in a kennel in the basement at night, safe from all of the ferocious neighborhood tigers.

Yesterday:

Jack is at work, Puppy is outside. Jack comes home from work early. I am in the kitchen at the sink.

Jack: There were two cats in our backyard with Oscar when I pulled up.

Me: Were they eating him?

I turned around to see Oscar peeking out from between Jacks legs. An inside dog for the rest of the afternoon.

Anyway, inside or out, SB is smitten. I don't know why Jack thinks Oscar is any safer inside with SB on the prowl. We are working on not picking Puppy up by the throat. Here are a few pictures I took the day we got Oskey.







I had to pick a few to post on here, but there were so many cute pictures, so I have the link for you to view the rest of them at shutterfly:


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