Meet Conan

We've been sitting our grandpuppy (Jack and Ava's little brother) until we can send him to his new home (Britt and Austin's) on Saturday (via Lex).  (Read the whole story here and here.)

When we found out we could get him last Sunday, of course the girls were begging and pleading to get him asap.  Around 8:30pm Sheila and her kids came to drop him off.

Conan.

The cutest pictures of him are on Shi and Lex's Instagrams (and a dozen of their closest pals').

I think he's adjusted pretty well, considering Little Dude was ripped away from the only life he's known (Mom, Dad and Sis - his other litter-mate-brother had been taken away a few days prior), only to spend nearly a week with two very loud, curious, and rambunctious older siblings he had never met, and a boatload of various strangers, mostly of the female sort, who smother him in cuddles and kisses.

Little Dude is my nickname for Conan. For whatever reason, the past few months I've called Jack "Dudie"... "Little Dude" was just the natural progression for Conan :-)  I've tried to call him by his name when I'm talking to him (although I've slipped a few times), lest I give the little dude an identity crisis.

(Obviously I like to take sleeping dog pictures. Maybe because I love sleeping dogs.
I totally get the phrase, "Let sleeping dogs lie.")

Lex has been visiting over the semester break this week, and offered to have Conan sleep with her at night. That was great {for me}, but only lasted a couple of nights. We had to put Jack and Ava in the basement at night because they would go crazy hearing Little Dude upstairs while they were tucked in their kennels. Once they had two stories between them, we all slept more soundly.

After the second night, Lex said she was exhausted. We decided to put Conan in his kennel in the basement, with Jack and Ava upstairs.  This arrangement has worked amazingly well (so far). Conan doesn't cry for long before he drifts off to dreamland, and Jack and Ava have been able to stick to their regular nighttime routine. 

We're loving Conan (literally), and are so happy we (and Jack and Ava - keeping it in the family) will get to see him every now and then.

I am, however, quite happy to send him on his way. Puppies are a ton of work!