The Dogs
These are the dogs we adopted three years ago. Shadow is the dad (the blind gray one) and Pippin is the son and the darling black and white guy. Pippin has always been kind of a pain. He is afraid of everyone and everything… He is Abi’s favorite and she has gone to great lengths to try to train him and turn him in to the kind of dog anyone would be proud to be associated with. She was therefore, REALLY sad when we decided we needed to find him another home if we were going to move to Paris. He just wasn’t going to fit in with a family of four kids when he is so unreliable around folks he doesn’t know well. We will be forever grateful to Lisa Flynn of the Cultured Canine for agreeing to board him until she was able to find him a good home. Lisa is Ms Dog Trainer Extraordinaire…check her out if you need help with your canine companions. Pippin is now living in Connecticut with a single guy and doing quite well.
And our friend Shadow has four delightful children who hug him and feed him. He doesn’t miss sharing the dog door with Pippin…he has his favorite human who is just his size who likes the escape route just as much as Shadow does. Shadow loves the attention and we hear he is putting on a little weight with all of the extra “attention” he gets. If he could see the food on the floor after it drops I’m sure he would be obese!
Andrus Foe Paws 
Yes, Shadow does love sitting with his snout out the dog door. I can see how this could be a point of contention among pups.Our pudgy puppy remains a big fav of Joe's. In fact, Joe can actually say Shadow (or Sha-ow), while he still doesn't know how to say any of his siblings names.