Colby Jack

I am pleased to announce that Joy and I have a dog. As regular readers of this blog will recall, Joy and I have been thinking about getting a dog for some time now. We looked at hundreds of dogs online and then went to a few shelters to look at some dogs. (Including one that threw up while we were talking with the vet. Needless to say, that dog was not brought home.) At one shelter, we narrowed the dogs we were looked at to our top three, and after playing with #1, we decided to not even bother looking at the other two.

Colby Jack is his name, and yes, he’s named after the cheese. Some time ago, Joy and I decided that perhaps we’d name our dogs after cheeses. You know, there are so many good cheeses out there, and no matter what Joy says, you can’t name a child Colby Jack. We have other names ready for the future: Reggie (Parmigiano-Reggiano), Zola (Gorgonzola), and Brie (uh, Brie). Feel free to suggest others. If you think that naming a dog after a cheese is a little odd (and I’m not suggesting you shouldn't think this), perhaps it’s worth noting that the name the shelter gave this puppy was Silly Dilly.

We don’t know a ton about our little dog since we got him from a shelter, but he’s about 6 months old and is a Lab/Retriever mix. We are beaming parents, and he’s positively beautiful. He is housebroken and is doing very well in training. So far he will sit and stay and then I can walk all the way to the other side of the apartment before telling him to come. Hopefully there is more training to come.

It feels great to have a dog. I love dogs and they usually love me. Dogs usually love anyone who will love them, and I find that endearing. Even as I type this, Colby is laying at my feet, his big eyes searching for mine every few minutes. If I go anywhere in the apartment, he’s sure to follow. Even when I’m in the bathroom, bless him. I think he’s smart, although twice he’s gone running into glass doors. He steps back, shakes his head, and looks at me laughing at him. What a silly dilly, that Colby Jack.