And this is Pepper Ann's Bigger and Bouncier Brother

Shane, Shane Thayn to be exact. His mother always wanted to name a kid, Shane. (My dad would be thrilled that is his favorite movie.) But after marrying a Thayn, she decided that she couldn't really stick a kid with that particular name. Using it for the dog seems like a good decision to me, they so rarely go by both their first and last names.

Unless they are getting into trouble around here, then I tend to break out the sternest 'mom' voice I can pull off and call them by their first and last names. If they are really in trouble, I make up a middle name for them.

This is How I Normally get to see Pepper Ann

But when she first arrived on Thursday, she was a whole different dog. POD-Pepper! (on please, tell me that you have seen 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers')

She was out of her box, and even let me pet her. She came out to play with the other dogs. In the four years that she has been coming here I don't think she even was out in the play yard before.

I saw more of her in that first half hour than I did in all of her stays throughout the years added together. She really was a whole new dog. It didn't last, though. She is back to hiding whenever I am around and there is no chance of her coming out to play again.

Disappointing, but at least I know she hasn't been 'replaced'.