Husky #2 -- Meet Lupin

We are now the owners of two (yep, you read that right) husky puppies. Who would have thought?

I mentioned in my post about Bear that Courtney's teacher had two husky puppies. We took Bear and she thought she had found a home for the other one, but that fell through. So she mentioned it to me and asked if we had any interest in taking him as well. She wasn't pressuring us at all, but of course Courtney begged and pleaded. At first Brian and I were definitely leaning towards "no" -- one dog seemed like plenty and there were lots of reasons we could think of to keep it that way. But then we could think of some possible benefits as well -- Bear seems to have some insecurity "issues" and we thought a second husky might help in that regard, as well as give him a doggie friend to keep him company. And we couldn't argue that we didn't have the room. So in the end we said "why not?" and decided to give it a try.

Courtney's teacher brought the second dog up to our house on Saturday, along with an unfinished doghouse they offered to us. She had named the dog Jacob, but I told the kids we know too many people named Jacob so we would have to think of a new name. We had a harder time agreeing on a name for this dog. Eventually we decided on Lupin, since it is a wolf-related name and we are Harry Potter fans.

Lupin seems to be a good dog so far -- he definitely doesn't have the insecurity issues that Bear has (as far as going near buildings, etc. -- he's already escaped into the house twice!). We need to get them some training soon because they're both so excited around the kids that they jump on them and practically knock the girls over.

Lupin has one blue eye and one hazel eye -- I guess this it is not uncommon for huskies to have different-colored eyes.

The girls take them both out for walks as often as they can. Hopefully after a few weeks, we can let them roam a little without needed the leashes constantly.

We had been planning to repaint our old doghouse, so when we got this second unfinished one, we just did them both at the same time. The kids had decided to paint them brown and we had some paint mixed, but they had some problems mixing it (long story) and didn't get the color quite right. It wasn't worth re-doing, so we ended up with a brown that isn't really what we had in mind, but I suppose the dogs don't care.

Courtney's teacher even brought us some shingles they were going to put on the roof, so McKay was excited to tackle that job (with a little help and supervision from Brian).

So we'll see how we do as a two-dog family! (And soon to be a two-dog and one-cat family.) The kids are just thrilled and I hope that with a little training, they will be great dogs.