Oh Henry

Meet

Henry Lewis, or

Henry Lewis Ayer The First, or

Leeewwwiiiissss, or just

Henry

He has acquired many nick names in the past couple of days. Yes, we broke down and adopted one of the puppies. David woke up on Saturday morning and said, "maybe we should just go check them out." And everyone knows you don't go "check out" a litter of puppies without coming home with one. After a process of elimination...the Brut, the yippy one, the girl, and the runt, we settled on Henry. He was gentle, the second smallest, more interested in licking our face than barking at the rest of the group and happened to resemble a certain someone at home. Coincidentally, we walked in with the name already picked out and found out that one of the ladies in the vet office had temporarily named them all and named ours Henry! We knew then, it was meant to be.

Henry is extremely well behaved as far as puppies go. He has only had a couple of accidents in the house. Lincoln has been a huge help in that category. We brought the bell back out and he has been ringing it every hour to remind us that Henry needs to go out... and that he wants to sniff.

One thing we forgot to consider was how lonely puppies get at night. When we locked him in his create, (which we will be doing at night and when we leave the house) he yelped for about and hour. But then, he was silent all night and waited for us to get up the next morning. The second night, he walked right in his create and went to sleep without a peep.

Lincoln handled the new addition better than we expected. He is almost 8 and isn't always in the mood to wrestle with a young pup. But Henry understands who's boss and is happy to cuddle when he settles down to sleep.

Another thing we didn't consider was meal time. You know how dogs can be about their food. Luckily they eat at the same rate...warp speed.

Emery has really enjoyed having Henry around. They have the same energy level and he is just her size. He is not quite as strong as she is so, a rousing game of tug-of-war is held at least once a day.

He also seems to like cartoons just as much as she does.

Welcome Henry. So far you have been a joy.

Lets keep it that way. ;-)