Last weekend, we welcomed Beau to our family. We have been looking for a dog for about a month now - all of us are finally ready to move on from the painful loss of Elliot. We had a failed meeting with a senior dog that was terribly hard on all of us, followed by the loss of a dog that was adopted right out from under us. Finding a rescue dog that is good with other dogs and good with kids is actually a lot harder than it sounds and the girls were becoming very despondent over how difficult the process had become. We found Beau through a local rescue organization and took him home the same day that he arrived in Connecticut. He is a two year old bull terrier mix, just a little guy. He was found in a basement an abandoned home in North Carolina and brought to a high kill shelter. Our local rescue pulled him and placed him with a foster family in NC and he was treated by a vet and neutered. As all rescue dogs do, he has his share of "issues" - clearly, he has never walked on a leash; until he got to our house, he never navigated stairs (amusing all day Saturday and Sunday, I have to say); he refuses to walk through doorways, you have to push or pull him; he's never had human food; and he's scared of humans, dogs, cars, trucks, fog, Emily's soccer coach, headlights, loud noises, and pretty much everything else you can think of. He has no idea how to get in and out of our cars, but he does love to go for a ride and he is very well-behaved in the car. He loves Baxter and follows him everywhere, much to Baxter's great annoyance. As we complete our first full week together, we feel very good about adding him to our family. We hope that Beau continues to adjust well as we really do love the little guy.
This is the photo the rescue organization posted on its Facebook page.
He looks tiny in the picture, but he's 45 pounds.
Emily and Beau, hanging out.
Sure guys, make yourselves at home on our bed.
As soon as the girls leave for school, they sack out on Emily's bed.
Beau has no concept of "personal space."
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