Charlie & Jake

I've realized that I haven't blogged about my fur-babies....AT ALL!! Shame on me. This is Charlie & Jake:

Charlie is our Basset Hound. He will be 8 years old in October. He was born one week after our 1st anniversary. So he has been apart of our family for almost our entire marriage. He is absolutely spoiled rotten and its 100% my fault!! He has the funniest personality!  Until Jake he refused to drink out of a water bowl, he wanted it straight from the bathtub faucet and he prefers to nap completely covered with a blanket. He is a sleepy head and sometimes I don't even see him in the mornings before I leave for work. I just rest my hand on the mountain of blankets to make sure hes still breathing under there!! He definitely keeps us on our toes!

Jake has been in our family for a year. One day I decided that Charlie was "lonely" and he needed a friend to "keep him young"! This time I really wanted to rescue instead of finding a breeder. I searched our local animal shelter's website and found our Jake. He was called Bagel at the time(we changed that asap). It was a rough go at first when we brought Jake home. He was 5 months old when he got him and he had been owner surrendered to the animal shelter at 3 months old. We believe that he had been abused during his first 3 months. He suffered from extreme separation anxiety and was extremely fearful of Micah. To be honest at first I wasn't sure how it was going to work out. But we refused to give up on him. It took a good 5 months with us before he started to be comfortable with us and now a year later its like he always been here. We cant imagine not having him. Jake and Charlie are the best of friends. Jake is extremely loyal  and loving. He now is so excited for "daddy" to come home everyday .....a big change from growling at him every day a year ago!!