Wu're geddin a NEWBIE!! (LunaB 'n Tinkerbell)

 Aww Callie, he's adorable! And you are ALL so very lucky!

Yeah -- we are truly. 

He's doing very well -- he has some definite fear responses.  At some point in this dog's history there's been abuse (and I fear it was reinforced badly ). 

He likes it here -- both with the humans and the dogs.  Food's good and there are lots of squeaky toys!! Rah!

Awwwwwwwwwww.....he's such a cutie pie!  I missed so much of his story lately! 

Give him some cuddles from uncle Johnny!

How did I miss this !!! - hits herself with a rolled newspaper.

Huge Congratulations to all of you. Charlie is a cutie pie and I know you will have tons of good times all together. He could not have found a better family to adopt.

I think each one of us is delighted to have him here --    the girls get along SUPER well with him and he thinks David's the best thing since kibble was invented.  Oh yeah -- and *I* am the "Food Lady" LOL

 That's great Callie; sounds like he's really settling in.

He saw Dr. Demers Tues nite- the heart sounds REALLY **GOOD** (given the mitral valve problems in Cavaliers that's huge!).

We talked to him at length -- because Charlie came out of such a "toxic" situation (he was trapped in that house for days -- a blind dog in flood waters BEYOND the 2d story -- it's amazing he didn't get trapped in a room and drown), and he really battled skin infections and ear infections when he first came out of there -- we're going to wait til March or April at least before we get his eyes fixed.

 Part of me wishes we could do it NOW -- but Cavaliers are high risk for auto-immune stuff like IMHA and he really needs time to get strong and fully healed (and detoxed) prior to having the additional stressor of eye surgery. 

He's adapting really well -- there is *some* bit of vision in that left eye and we also really want to work on the "reluctant around men" thing.  That needs to be seriously desensitized and I really don't want that to *depend* on his vision. 

Mostly we want to build this boy up physically and emotionally before we expose him to more stressors.  He likes it here -- he's a happy boy.  I'm still working with the remants of an ear infection but he is doing VERY well.

Awww, so glad to hear that he got a good report from Dr. D.  Poor guy -- can you imagine what he'd say if he could tell you about his time in the flooded house?  It IS amazing he didn't drown! 

I'm sure with more time in your family, getting all the TLC, great diet, training, medical care, etc. --- he'll be as strong and healthy as possible and ready to handle eye surgery.  Being in a safe, happy and loving home will do wonders for his overall health (physical AND emotional).  Give him some belly rubs from me!

By the way, have you come up any additional nicknames, or are you just calling him Charlie?  I guess it takes time to see all the different facets of his personality before you're inspired for nicknames!

Congrats, my sister got a poodle few months ago and she was asking what name and before she could tell me what her husband said they should call him I said you should name him charlie lol she says omg see I told you and eli belong together that's the name he picked. So since he picked that name and I said it as well she figured he was a charlie.

tacran

Awww, so glad to hear that he got a good report from Dr. D.  Poor guy -- can you imagine what he'd say if he could tell you about his time in the flooded house?  It IS amazing he didn't drown! 

The woman told me that her refrigerator (fully loaded) wound up getting pushed THRU the ceiling of the kitchen into the bedroom above.  I'm sure they left by the "back door" and I've just had nightmares thinking about him trying to wait "in the kitchen" and then having to try to swim?  We don't think dogs have cognitive abilities??  "I need to get out of here and someplace higher." So ... what they're sitting on a floating table and what happens if the water goes higher than the doorway?  or what events conspire to dump them off and they swim and see the stairs may lead up ??  But then the house creaks and groans -- can you just IMAGINE being in that bedroom when the floor bursts open and the refrigerator comes thru?

He's such a happy boy. 

WE haven't tried to branch out much on nicknames yet -- amazingly he's been talked to very little.  Knew NO commands whatsoever (but had obviously been over-disciplined for a lot of things).  But he's learned fast that "Good Boy Charlie" is a good good thing.  He responds better to it than he does to food! 

And to be perfectly blunt?  One could be generous and say he looks like an "old timey Cavalier" with the longer snout -- but he REALLY looks like such a cocker mix it's not funny -- you actually have to TELL someone he's a Cavalier.  *grin*

 Such is MY life and experience with purebreds LOL.  I wouldn't trade him for a zillion dollars!! 

 Callie, Charlie hit the jackpot when he came to live with you! I'll also say that you and David did as well. Congrats!