Ha ha! We'd like to welcome our newest addition to our family! This is Neji our new puppy. He is a lab mix. He was born July 9, 2008 to our neighbors around the corner and up the street. Zach and Riley came home from school September 2, and said they were giving away their puppies for free! I wasn't sure I wanted a puppy. But then I said I would go look. I fell in love with them. I'm not stupid enough to take them all home, but I called Kurtis and asked him how he felt about it. He said he was going to leave it up to me. So we got a puppy! The kids were so excited. Now we get to potty train a puppy. I just finished potty training a little boy. This can't be too hard, right? He is so cute and tries so hard to be good, but he is still so little that his instincts override anything else he tries to control. But he is sweet.
Oh, everybody always asks us where we came up with the name Neji. Well, our family really likes this anime show called Naruto. Naruto is a show about a boy training to be a ninja. His nindo (or ninja way) is "I never give up!" Which is why even though he can be a little annoying, we love him. Neji is one of the characters in that show, and it wasn't so Japanese that people would think we were nuts. We considered Kakashi (he's my favorite character), and Shikamaru (he always says, "What a drag!"). Here are some pictures!
He's already grown! When we took him to the vet, Neji was 10.6 pounds. The vet said that he would get as tall as he his going to be in 9 months and that he would weigh as much as he is supposed to weigh in a year. He also said that his weight should double each month, and that he should be 60 pounds by the time he is full grown! He's going to get big. Abbey, our other dog who is a beagle mix and 9 and a half years old, only weighs 36 pounds.
The boys like to run around and have Neji chase them!
Zach loves his dogs!
This is Neji from Naruto
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