When the heat index has reached 100F by 8am, it’s difficult to find motivation to do much of anything but stay indoors and lie around, watching YouTube videos about how to cook delicious Korean dishes. Such has been life of late here in the west end of the Valley of the Sun.
It also doesn’t help that I’ve been a bit laid up for the last month, with yet another flare up of cellulitis, followed by a couple of weeks of bandages on my legs to help reduce the swelling from lymph-edema. I’m supposed to keep my legs elevated most of the time, which precludes pretty much everything.
Although we got our new puppy just two days after we said farewell to Gwinny in early June, I’m only just now getting around to posting about him. We were initially led to believe he was a “mastiff mix”, and to be sure, he has some mastiff about his face. However, when we brought him home and he was so sick at first, we took him to the vet to get some meds, and found out that he’s almost entirely Rhodesian Ridgeback! I never knew much about them before, and was surprised to find out that they were bred to hunt lions! They are very tall dogs, but they don’t carry as much weight as Mastiffs, so although he was terribly thin when we first brought him home, and we’ve been feeding him up, he will never put on the kind of weight that a Mastiff would.
It took a few days to settle on a name for our big puppy, but I was happy that my choice won the day. His name is Duke, which I think goes splendidly with his big sis, Daisy.
Here are our doogies, and Laurent’s basset, who spends three days a week at our house, hassling the big dogs:
