A Few Animals Away From a Menagerie....

Don't ask me who was responsible for the decision to adopt another animal into the Marchland household. Suffice it to say that we are now a three dog family. This is in addition to the two hermit crabs (after the first two days these are now MY hobby). It is also in addition to the one Beta Fish (somewhere along the way - also MY hobby). So we now have a shiny new Shih Tzu, appropriately named COCO. He is just over six and a half weeks old. The breeder, being in the military, was sent back East suddenly. This made it necessary for the adoption to occur a little earlier than preferred. Little COCO is so small that he is easily confused with a guinea pig or a small beanie baby. My two boxers, Lex and Chris, already got into their first fight over (I can only presume) who would get the first bite of COCO. Chris, my older, deaf and innocent fawn boxer unfortunately bore the brunt of the damage.

Here is a first look at our little puff of a canine with his new best friends Alexis and Frances. They have also gotten into many an argument over who gets to hold COCO and whose turn to hold him is over. It fatigues us, the parental units, but what can we do? It is yet another bit of fine print that we must have overlooked when we took on this gig as parents.