The New Puppy (that's already bigger than Kita)

After all the fun we had with Tex, and being heart broken that we had to sell him, we decided to get another Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy. I did my research long and hard trying to find a breeder, let alone one who wasn't on the other side of the continent, and finally found one a few hours south of here in Waynesburg KY. It is definitely a smart thing to get settled, establish your routine, and THEN decide if a new puppy fits in with that, but since the ridgeback is such a rare breed there was a waiting list of about three months and I had to either reserve a puppy in April or wait until Christmas time or possibly next year. Well, I went ahead and reserved a puppy and decided that if we couldn't fit the puppy into our life style we would just forfeit the deposit.
An informed buyer is smart buyer so I took Brody to see the pups when they were about 2 weeks old. Poor guy, I didn't even give him a choice! Puppies at 2 weeks old are too cute to say no to ;)

We came back at 5 weeks to check on our little girl and finalize our pick of the litter. Look at this cute little face

 At seven weeks and 3 days we made our way down to Waynesburg KY to pick our little girl up. We had a few hours to think of a name but nothing really struck us.  Then it hit me, I'd made a journey like this before.. to pick up a dog... on the other side of a state... and it was also a Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy... it's kinda like Deja vu...  And so it was settled, Deja would be her name.

We picked her up at a whopping 15.5lbs, already 4 times bigger than Kita and she was the clumsiest little ball of energy we'd ever seen!

"Me and my dad. Look how bling bling my collar is :) "