After a long search Corina and I recently made an addition to our little family unit. Meet Chance, our new dog.  He is a border collie cross that we got from a rescue agency in Guelph.  He’s an old dog, they suspect roughly 5-6 years old, but we were kind of looking for a dog that was past the puppy stages.  We’ve had a few friends go through those stages with their dog in the last year and it definitely made us want a dog that was mature.

So far we’ve had him since Friday and he has been very good.  He just seems to fit right in with things and not be too bothered by his change in situation.  He had been living out on a farm with foster parents in St Clements for the last couple of months, but so far he doesn’t seem to be too bothered by the hustle and bustle of city life.  Originally he had been rescued from a shelter in Ohio, so we now have a yankee dog.

Corina and I had been looking forward to being able to get a dog since we first moved in together back in 2005.  But given we had lived in apartments that didn’t allow for dogs up until the point we moved into our own house getting a dog wasn’t really an option.  Both Corina and I are dog people, having grown up with dogs in our houses most of our lives.

As you can see he is a bit of an odd looking dog.  He generally looks like a border collie, but has short legs.  The rescue initially classified him as possibly crossed with a corgy, but after talking to the fosters and spending some time it definitely seems like he’s mixed with some type of hound.  He’s got that hound bark and tends to lock onto scents like hounds tend to do.  He’s very good natured, loves to get attention and just generally seems to be a happy dog.