How could we resist?

 Well, we couldn’t.  So here’s our new puppy.  Another English Shepherd from Oklahoma.

We still tear up over “Pokey” but we thought this little girl might help.  She’s from the same breeder and in fact has some of the same bloodlines.  We expect the stork (aka: American Airlines) to deliver her to us about the first of October, right after we get back from our next trip to Devon.

No name yet and perhaps you would like to help with that.  The family survey has Bonnie, Jasmine (Jazz), Misty, Cimmarron, Okey-Dokey pretty much tied for first place.  At the family cookout yesterday, great-grandson Rowan had so many cookies in his mouth we couldn’t understand his vote.

We’ve had a lot of dogs over the years, often three at a time, but none has ever had the “people” qualities of our Pokey.  We understand, though, that that’s a prime characteristic of the breed.  We hope that will be true again.