We adopted him a few short days before Christmas, and besides the jealousy from the older brother (Winston) everything has been great (and that might have been harder on me than on Winston). He took a few days to adjust of course, but for the most part Frankie made himself right at home with our family. He is a 1-year old, male, 4 lb 8 oz Chihuahua who was found as a stray on the streets of Minneapolis. He is a little more high maintenance than Winston- dislikes the snow more and thus has to wear booties (but of course he is 2.5 lbs smaller than Winston), gets into a little more trouble around the house (but is almost 4 years younger than Winston, still practically a puppy), and isn't 100% potty trained (although we are mere days away from this being crossed off the list!!). On the other hand, he is more laid back than Winston when meeting strangers, is a lot more fun/ silly to play with (but don't tell Winston I said that), and has a lot more entertaining personality quirks. And in the short time we have had him, he has already gotten rid of his musty dog smell and developed a softer coat, most likely thanks to the better food we are feeding him.
All in all we already love little Frankie a lot, despite his awkwardly long legs (but hey, he has to have something to compete with Winston's bat ears) and are looking forward to many adventures with him!
And in case you were wondering yes, you were paying attention and he already had his blog debut here in two of the pics, but I thought he needed a formal introduction.
**Name subject to change (thus the non-committal title). At this point we are 99% sure we are going to go with Franklin, or Frankie for short, for the new pup's name- but we are still testing it out before we make it official at this point, and we have already tried out, and bounced around quite a few names over the past few weeks.
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