Happy wedding day, John and Jessica!

*John and Jessica SCHWIND: this blog is for you! Here are some pictures of your baby boy. He's doing great and keeping us all thoroughly entertained. We hope the ceremony and festivities went well today!*

Our friends, John and Jessica, were married today down in Savannah, Georgia. While they are gone we are taking care of their fur-child, Rudi, short for "rudabega." Like our Ruby, he is a border collie-terrier mix. Notice how similar their names/breeds are to each other? I have a hunch that they liked Ruby so much that they subconsciously chose a pooch similar to her for themselves (or so we like to think!).
Rudi is still a puppy and is such a darling. I've never had a puppy (our dogs were full grown when we got them from the rescue foundation) but Dave keeps telling me that all the weird things Rudi does is because he's still a baby. They estimate that he's only 8 months old...but Dave thinks that he could be younger. Like any young dog he just wants to play all the time--with us, the pillows, dirty laundry on the floor, and our dogs. Potatoes plays with him, which gets Ruby gets all upset thinking that Rudi is fighting with Potatoes and then jumps in to "save" Potatoes. Rudi doesn't understand that Ruby is trying to fight him off so he just tries to play with her. It is absolute madness around here at times.

Here, he's trying to help Dave install the baseboard in the office (we're finally done with the flooring in there--yippee!):
Rudi has this habit of trying to "bury" his bone and raw hide chewies. He scratches at the carpet or couch to make a "hole", lays the toy down, and then uses his head to cover it up with imaginary dirt. It is just hilarious...you just have to check it out. Lucky for us he hasn't ruined our couch doing this, but we'll have to watch him. (If Kaitlin is reading this I'm sure she's saying to herself "scratching up the furniture, there's another reason us Hunts will never have a dog!")