Simba

Simba came to us on January 22nd. My friend Jerri has a friend that runs a corgi rescue and Jerri ended up fostering Simba while looking for a home for him. Jerri had him for a few months and then started asking if there was anyone who wanted to adopt him. On a whim I showed the picture to Les and he wanted to go see him. That was all it took (well, I think the picture is all it took!) and we made arrangements to get Simba after he'd been fixed. Earlier in the week, Jerri had brought Simba over to meet Tessa and then Friday night he was ours!

Simba has quite the history already... We have an "Italian" dog in our house... really! Simba came from Italy - he was a puppy with a service person there. And then was moved in with a different service person at about 9 months. In March of '09 Simba's owner was coming back to the US and Simba came with him. Fast forward to now and Simba's owner was getting ready to deploy again and happened to find Jerri's friend that has the corgi rescue.

In looking at the records that came with him, we found 3 different "birthdates" ranging from the beginning of Dec. '05 to the end of Jan. '06 so we went with the middle date and are guessing he's just over 4 years old. He had kind of a rough life before this and was injured in some way - he lost part of his tongue (he eats kind of sideways & when he's panting there is no tongue hanging out...) and he's had oral surgery of some sort. But he is the cutest, sweetest dog (Just ask Tiffani!) and has a TON of energy. He absolutely adores Tiffani and the feeling is pretty mutual. Even before he was officially at our house, Tiffani cleaned a spot for him in her room and reserved it for Simba. He was sleeping there at night, but now goes up in the morning just before she wakes up and stays with her while she gets ready.

Here's a few pictures of Simba.
Tessa & Simba checking each other out.

Simba getting some loving from Tiffani.

Tiffani letting both Simba AND Tessa know that it'll all be ok.

See, we can co-exist if we aren't too close together! ;)

How much longer do I have to wear this thing? Do you have to take a picture of me in it!?

I couldn't get the video to upload... We have one of Simba figuring out how to climb the stairs sideways with that giant cone on and one of him just walking (prancing!)around with it on.