Introducing Ruby...

After writing that last entry about Ruby and her bunny, I got to thinking that perhaps you might like to know who Ruby is.

Well.Ruby is Ava's sister.

They are chocolate spoodles and they are our 'girls'. If we had had girls, they be called Ava and Ruby. But we didn't, and so we have our boys and our girls. They are the most darling little creatures. Ava is very intense, very possessive, very affectionate. Ruby is fun loving, young, energetic, mischievious. They are sisters.

They arrived together at the airport in one of those big carrier boxes. We had told the boys that two girls were coming to stay with us...

"What are their names?" they asked.
"Ava and Ruby."
"Oh. Why are they coming?"
"Just for a holiday, but if they like it, maybe we could ask them to stay forever. "
"Hmmm... what about their mum and dad... won't they miss them?"
"Oh, sure they will, but they have many many children and it is hard work to look after them all and when we said that we love girls and didn't have any, they offered for us to have Ava and Ruby for a visit."
"Oh."
Silence.
"What do they look like?"
"Well, they both have brown hair and brown eyes I think. Their hair is curly like their mums hair. They are only short, like... so short, you could probably pick them up even!"
"Oh. Like dolls."
"Sort of."

When we got to the airport, the boys were looking at all the children."Is that them? Is that them?" And even when we had the crate and were picking the puppies up in our hands they were still looking for 'the girls'. Not until I said 'Hello Ava and Ruby. Welcome to our family" did they understand that these gorgeous little puppies had come to stay.

And so it is... our two boys and our two girls (and dour chickens, and our mice, and our guinea pigs and our fish...)