It's a Boy!

It's a boy! I'm happy to announce there's a new member of the Hemby family weighing in at twelve pounds. He's five years old and his name is Winston. He's been with us for one month now. 

Winston coming home with us

He's part Shih tzu and part poodle mixed with a whole lot of love. He's just a soft ball of curly, cuddly fur.

                

He has attached himself to me. I move an inch and he's up and ready to follow me wherever I go. Stewart runs a close second as Winston will sit with him and stay with him, until I move; then all bets are off. He sleeps between us on the bed while his bed sits on the floor acting as a toy box. 

He has adjusted to our two birds in the house, Charlie and Chip. They do love to fly low over him, though, since they know they can generally fly out of the way. Winston gets his exercise running back and forth trying to keep up with them. He caught Charlie twice but thankfully didn't know what to do with him, so I was able to get Charlie out of harm's way.

Charlie and Chip      

Chip is on the faucet and Winston is telling him to come down and play with him. Chip knows better.

Here's Winston sitting on my lap intently watching a Trump rally 

As you may know, we had to put Stewart's pug, Shadow, to sleep last March and vowed we would never get another dog. All things change, though, and recently we agreed we'd like to get an adult dog, not a puppy that would require a LOT of work and attention. This little guy who turns six in June, is an adult but still has a lot of puppy playfulness in him. He's the best of both worlds. 

The family that owned him for five years felt it was in Winston's best interests to find him a new home where he would be king of the hill and not low man on the totem pole with their three other dogs. They trained him very well. He sits, heels, and is housetrained; he's a pleasure to have in the house. EXCEPT, when a closed door gets between him and me. At that point, he howls like a coyote in pure anguish. We're working with him to get over that by giving him the job of getting in a chair when I leave. He's slowly getting better since, thanks to his former owners, he's extremely trainable.

Welcome to your new world, Winston!