Cristene J., who adopted Shep — our blind German Shepherd from Afghanistan — last month, emailed us these photos last week. Cristene and her husband Duane have renamed Shep "Little Joe," which we thought was a perfect name for our "pocket Shepherd."
We all kind of figured Cristene and Duane's other Rolling Dog Ranch adoptee, three-legged Kasha, would shepherd (so to speak) the newbie around their place, but guess who attached himself to Little Joe instead? None other than Arnold, the family's miniature Dachshund. That's Arnold resting his chin on Little Joe's back in the photo above. Cristene says Arnold has fallen in love with this blind boy.
I've posted before on an odd phenomenon we've seen a lot of here, which is large dogs preferring to sleep in ridiculously small beds. I don't know if Little Joe picked up this habit at the ranch and took it with him to his new home, but here he is commandeering a cat bed as his own:
Judging from the number of people who have read our blog posts about this behavior and told us their dogs do the same thing, it is clear we are not alone in witnessing this canine preference for undersized beds!
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