One Plus One

We're getting a second dog-person in the household. On Saturday we'll drive down about half-way from DC to Norfolk, VA and meet the foster mom of Logan, a stray, about six-year-old English Springer Spaniel who will come back with us. He'll be added to the mix of Kooper, Lucky and Zelda, and Kate and Mark. From the description of him on the Mid Atlantic English Springer Spaniel Rescue group, he sounds like a sweet dog.

Logan was picked up as a dirty, scroungy stray by animal control folks in North Carolina. They know when the stray is a Springer Spaniel and when they can't find its owner to call the rescue group, who takes the dog in (to one of the foster homes), gets it cleaned up, neutered, doctored and settled in, and then matches the dog with a new home that is a good fit. Logan gets along good with other dogs, and cats, and people, too. He's apparently a couch potato and a wanna-be lap dog. Sounds like a good fit.

Two dogs are more than twice the work as one. It's a bit harder to walk and coordinate poop cleanup with two. A bit harder to keep food allocated equally and to make sure the one doesn't eat the food of the other. A bit harder to keep them both active and entertained.

But two are also a lot more fun than twice as one.