Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Emmett's first day

Emmett is a very sweet dog, very calm and snugly. The cats have been hissing a lot, but they have been sticking close to him, and they aren't quite as freaked out as I expected. They follow Emmett around the yard. Micha and Emmett have had a couple of non confrontational nose sniffs, but Zeus is more stand-offish. Emmett clearly just wants to make friends with the cats. Perhaps in time. He did discover the life size dog stuffed animal in Julien's room and worked very hard to get it to play with him. It was cute.

Julien is thrilled and has been petting Emmett a lot, but is a bit held back, a little nervous. Last night Sebastian said "Emmett doggy!" several times.

Emmett has not barked at all yet. I understand that most beagles are barkers, but not so far!

Richard worked very hard to negotiate a name with Julien. Julien was hoping for Coco, Chocolate ice cream, Electro or a pokemon name like Turtwig or Uxie. Richard was hoping for Zander. Finally Richard compiled a big list with some help from Julien. They almost named the dog Yoda, but last minute julien decided that was no good and decided on Emmett. So Emmett it is!

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