I’ve mentioned our dogs on a couple of occasions and I thought it would be good to introduce them.

That’s Prince in the foreground.  Tuck is in back.  I know, everybody names their dog Prince, but he comes by it honestly.  Growing up, we had a white collie/border collie mix  by the name of Prince who got his name from the white collie my great grandfather had on his farm.  My great grandfather’s name was George King and he had a pair of draft horses he named King and Queen so when a dog came along what choice was there but to name him Prince?

The current Prince, Prince III I guess, is a White German Shepherd.  He is rather large and rangy and his favorite past time is chasing tennis balls and Frisbees.  A trip to the bark park for him is a trip to Heaven.

We had never heard of the White German Shepherd breed until a friend of ours introduced us to Powder, a magnificent member of that breed. 

Powder spent her first three years in a puppy mill giving birth to at least one litter of puppies and probably more.  The puppy mill was closed down and Powder was rescued by Echo Dogs White Shepherd Rescue. She weighed about 45 pounds and it wasn’t even clear that she would live to make it to the vet.  She did and now she is a poster child for dog rescue work.  She lives with our friend Joyce.  When we visited Joyce, Powder would sleep in the same room as Joyce, my wife Ellie would be in the guest bedroom and I would be on the couch in the living room.  Joyce would get up in the middle of the night and Powder would go in search of her great good friend Barry.  I would wake up at 3:00 AM with a very earnest nose in my face.  Powder was there to tell me how important it was for us to adopt a White Shepherd.

We got Prince from a breeder but after awhile it was clear that he was bored living with just two humans so we took Powder’s advice and adopted Tuck.  His original name was Turk but Ellie didn’t like that and renamed him Tuck.  The story goes that Tuck was rescued from an owner who had no further use for him and was going to shoot him.  Fortunately he was rescued.  Here he is, meeting Prince for the first time.  Emmy, another rescued dog is sticking

close to Tuck.

Tuck has been with us two years now and neither he nor Prince are bored.  Tuck also likes to go to the bark park.

Thanks, Powder, you have good ideas.