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Ah, that sweet puppy breath will get you every time. After much thought and planning, we have decided to add a third canine to our clan.

Meet Storm, a puppy we are adopting from the Roanoke Valley SPCA. We are pretty sure he is an American Staffordshire terrier, dark gray and white with beautiful blue eyes. (He is the color of a storm cloud, hence the name.)

We met this little guy at the dog wash fundraiser for the Roanoke Dog Park. His foster mommy brought Storm out for the day, where he proceeded to steal every heart at the event including mine and my husband's.

We brought him home last night to meet the other pets in our family, and it went much better than I had even hoped. He played with both of our greyhounds, and he tried to make his tiny legs to keep up with Coral as she did hot laps around our backyard. Dexter is grumpy old man at the young age of five and growled at the baby a few times, but otherwise they got along okay.

Storm saw Thai, our cat, but paid him no attention. The pup ran into the velvet paw of India, my daughter's cat, this morning. He yipped and ran away. That's as good as it gets for puppy/kitty meetings.

I had to take him back to the SPCA today for his "little boy surgery", his vaccinations and microchip. If all goes well today, I can take him home tomorrow. We have now officially reached the limit for dogs in a single family residence in Roanoke County, so this little guy will be the last one we add to our family for a long while.

I admit being a little apprehensive, since it was more than 25 years since I last helped raise a puppy. But hey, life is an adventure and I don't buy expensive shoes anymore, so here we go.

Stay tuned for updates on life with our new puppy.