I couldn't stand it not having the pooch around, so I just had to get a new puppy right away.

He's lotsa fun, but lotsa problems, too. Yesterday, while I was on phone, I let him out into yard - It was raining, creating lotsa mud, & pooch tried to dig his way to China.

I've never seen such a mud-caked creature - All 4 legs were black with mud, ditto his muzzle & belly, even his ears were caked with mud.

Then, in trying to get him to bathroom for clean-up in bath tub, pooch & I got half of the house mud caked, and the pooch ended up only half cleaned. Just then, my wife got home from church & sorta went balistic - well, not really balistic, but she wasn't happy with the situation.

Eventually, she took the pooch into the shower with her and got him cleaned-up, while I spent the next 2 hours scrubbing the mud-caked floors.

Ah! The joys of "parenthood".