We added a new member to our family this weekend.  Meet Zack.  He’s nine months old and a Bernese Mountain Dog.  Right now he weighs in at 77 pounds and he will continue to grow until he’s about 14 months old.  He is going to be BIG, which isn’t new to us.  Sampson weighed 151 most of his fourteen years of life.He is the sweetest thing.  He has yet to bark.  He woofed at one of the neighbors dog, but I think that was to say “Hey, new friend!!!!” before they introduced themselves.Yes, that sentence needed all of those exclamation points.  He is a giant floof ball.  And so far he hasn’t met a stranger or anyone that he hasn’t considered a friend.The cats don’t know what to think about him; they hide and look at him from a distance.  The kittens have never seen a dog, and Koshka is now angry at me again.  He was super ticked off when I brought the kittens home, but now they are no longer enemy number one.  Zack is, lol.  He apparently has never seen a cat either, so he is quiet and watchful of them too.Denton and Hayden drove down to Denton’s parents in Florida to pick him up.  They got Zack and his sister when they were seven weeks old.  They did the round trip drive down there and back in three days and they were in the car for over 32 hours.  Not what any of us consider a good time which is why we fly when we go down now.  But we wouldn’t have crated him on a plane for anything.When they got him home he wouldn’t eat the food that Denton’s Mama sent with them.  Finally, I sat with him and accidentally discovered that if I held the food in my hand right next to his mouth, he would eat. 😯 Hopefully he will get over that soon, hahaha.I put this extra photo in to show the scale of his paw to my hand.  Sampson was like a bull in a china shop, so it’s so surprising to me how gently he is.

He has adjusted very well so far.  We however are adjusting slower.  It’s like having a toddler in the house again.  Zack proofing the house is going to be ongoing…… 😀