Sandra Paul's Own True Puppy Love!

This is Tuxedo--"Tux" for short.  He's only eight weeks old, and is a Labrador/German hair pointer mix.  We adopted Tux through a puppy rescue organization.  My husband and I first saw him in a cage with a much bigger, shepherd/chow mix that Tux (despite his smaller size) was bullying around.  The girl watching them kept picking up the Chow to "save" him from Tux.  Whenever he couldn't reach his friend, Tux would attack the girl's shoelaces. 


The girl showing Tux said that no one wanted him because he was especially small for his breed(s) and very skinny.  Also, Tux wasn't an "affectionate" puppy--he preferred playing over cuddling.  Despite these problems, we liked Tux.  He had a "go for it, don't worry about the consequences" kind of attitude that we found appealing.  Still, we missed our other dog, Thor, who had recently died and weren't sure we were ready to adopt another little one.  We left to "think it over" only to get a call from the girl a couple of days later saying every puppy they had had been taken but Tux. 

He was lonely all by himself.

So we went to get him to bring him home.