We adopt a 2nd Dog: OSCAR!

Today we adopted a 2nd dog into our home! He's a pure-bred Jack Russell Terrier. His original name was Sparky but his previous owners called him by several different names and he didn't seem highly-attached to the name of Sparky and so we decided to change it b/c we just didn't care for that name much. Sparky had some serious dental problems when we got him -- he came from a family who just loved him to death but hadn't been able to tend to his dental problems. We took him to the dentist the next day after we got him and it turns out he needed to have about 12 teeth pulled and some major teeth cleaning performed. In the process we were pressured to giving him a name while at the vet and weren't sure what to call him and just called him Apollo, rather off-the-cuff. We weren't sure we loved the name, but we liked it better than Sparky.

Three or four days later we had been noticing that every morning when you bump him in the slightest while he's sleeping he would get very vocally upset and growl something terrible! During the day he was the gentlest most friendly dog you could imagine -- but do NOT disturb him while he's sleeping, he gets U*P*S*E*T!!! :)

All of a sudden it dawned on Heather: his name should be OSCAR (as in, "Oscar the Grouch")!!!! And so it was.

Oscar is about 4 years old and 18lbs.