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So for those of you who don't know, we adopted another dog about a month or two ago, from Arizona Humane Society. This is when I first met Cody (then known as Max, which he didn't respond to). An AHS volunteer, Charles, introduced us. I ended up on the floor playing with Cody pretty quickly. Charles always humors me- thanks, C. :)
On our way home on adoption day. I had to bring Luka to AHS to meet him first, and they seemed to get along so well I brought him home. My son Andrew helped with the dogs the first day and although he's not typically a fan of dogs in general, even he fell in love with Cody!
Cody is a Boxer-Pointer mix, and you can really see which parts of him came from each breed. Hound nose, square Boxer feet, and he points! not often, but I've seen it.
Cody is still a puppy- he's only about 3 years old. So he does goofy things. Like sleep half out of his bed trying to get comfy. This was when he still had a bed, that is. He ate it not long after this photo was taken.
sitting on the sofa with Mark- he doesn't understand the iPhone camera yet...
Cody has gotten much better about not chewing the furniture (covering it with foil really helped!) and sticking to his toys. We are now getting used to the daily carnage that is Cody's toys (poor Purple Guy.) Cody still seems to be absolutely *shocked* when I want to clean up all the toy-stuffings all over the floor. He's totally offended by my clean-up efforts so I try to leave it as long as I can stand it. He's usually better about it when I can distract him with brand new toys. Which are still less expensive than repairing the furniture, so I'll keep him in new toys for a while.
The boys are getting along so well. Luka even now worries about Cody when he doesn't know where he is in the house- he'll go searching all over to find Cody, and then give him a lick on the face when he does. He's also the rule-enforcer: Cody still likes to do some digging in the yard, but when Luka catches him at it he goes right out and grumbles and snaps at Cody until he stops digging. Luka's the grumpy old man of the house. If he was a person he'd be yelling at the kids next door to stay off our lawn!
We can't normally let Cody on the bed with us at night like we can with Luka, because he just doesn't stay still and it's impossible to sleep with him there. He's like a human 3 year old! But about 5:30 each morning Cody's awake and will jump up with us for a little while. He's finally learning to sleep for a little while longer. On my pillow. (They were really both out cold when I took this!)
fyi: these are all iPhone photos. click the title link to go to the Arizona Humane Society web site.
