Puppy Visit

This weekend we got to go visit our soon-to-be puppy and his little family. He is five weeks old now and will be ready to come home with us in two more weeks. The kids loved sitting on the floor playing with him, and his brother and sister. Their mom was very eager to get some attention to, but the kids mostly payed attention to the puppies of course. We are going to name our puppy Torben and Leif started joking around that he would be Torben the Terrible. After sitting on the ground like this for a couple hours, Leif changed his mind and said that he is Torben the Terrific and he wants him right now.

The kids played equally with all the puppies, but I only took pictures of our little fellow. 

Torben is a wire haired vizsla- a relatively new breed from Hungary. His current owner is a woman from Hungary who loves smooth and wire-haired vizslas and has been delightful for us to get to know. We are so excited that she chose our family to get one of her puppies from this very small litter. The kids were in heaven snuggling all three puppies and kept talking about it the next day wishing that we could go again. We are definitely ready for a family dog and I know all the kids will be helpful in raising him.

You can see a bit of his wiry overcoat beginning to come in, but he hasn't got his eyebrows and mustache quite yet.

Here is Trevor giving the puppies' mom some attention- something she was begging from everyone. Her coat is longer than Torben's will be (he has a shorter coat like his dad) and is extra long because her owner didn't groom her before the winter to keep her warm in Canada's bitter winter.