Meet the Dogs

We are so delighted with our dogs! And generally they seem delighted with us; at least, they are delighted with the the twins, largely because the twins let them sleep on their comfy beds. Check out the pictures below, and then you can decide who is allowing whom to use the bed.

Charis and Ziva

Meet Ziva.
She is about two years old. We got her as a puppy not too long after thieves attacked at our home, in the hope that when she grew up, she would be a help to our home security. She wasn't very big when we left for furlough but she was very well cared for by our friends in our absence. Their teenage daughter loves animals almost as much as our Channah and she did a lot of training with Ziva during the time we were gone; we were so pleased with her obedience when we took her back. She did, however, cause some trouble with our friend's own dog as she got bigger. At times, they got into some pretty serious spats, which made us concerned that she might also be overly aggressive with our first dog once they were both together in our house again; thus, we were a bit reluctant to bring our first dog back home from RFIS where she was cared for by many during our stay in the U.S.

  

Channah with Dorea

Meet Dorea.
Her name means 'gift' because she was given to us as a gift after our previous dog died unexpectedly. She is a bit more than three years old and was timid as could be before we left her. Well, we left her at RFIS as a second watch dog, so she was loved and cared for by many employees, teachers and students; not only that, she was fed by many during school; she rather quickly learned to get over her fear of people so that she could hang around the lunch area and help the students finish their lunches! She's quite tolerant of our visitors now, especially when they are holding food. When the school year ended we decided we'd better try to put the two dogs together to see what would happen. Besides, Dorea was pretty fat after all of the care the students had given her and she needed a diet that did not include leftover school lunches.




Both the "girls" have been together in our house for more than a month now, and we are so happy that, so far, they are acting quite like the girls they love, getting along great but for the occasional enthusiastic roughhousing or sibling fighting. And we have so enjoyed having them both back in the house with us!

Please pray that they adjust well again as we move to our new home later this month.