Meet little Samish!

When New Rattitude's Lynn Bonham was evaluating several Rat Terriers that we had been notified about at the Kern County shelter in Bakersfield, CA, she came across one small 4-5 yr old male Rattie mix who hadn't been listed on the Pet Harbor Website.  Kern shelter is a pretty awful place for dogs to land and not many make it out so it broke her heart to think of leaving the gregarious little guy.

Of the 5 Rat Terriers there she was able to pull 3 and headed home to Fresno with 2 females and this little mystery guy who had been missed in the shelter so didn't have a chance out.

Samish when he was in Fresno with his temp foster mom, Lynn Bonham

Yesterday Samish was transported up to us here in WA. He weighs about 10 pounds, loves to hunt and is pretty dang adorable.

Right now he is still in what we call the "belly band stage."  All boys are required to wear belly bands for a minimum of 3 days after arriving since the temptation to lift a leg for a nervous guy in a new setting is pretty strong.  He's also still so busy sniffing and learning about the back yard that it's been tough to get good photos of him so we are still working on that. Here he is in Washington, being forced to pose for a photo when he really wants to check the garden shed for mice.

Samish is pronounced like the name "Sam" with "ish" added to the end.  So he's not a Sam, he's just a little "Sam-ish". :)  Like all of our foster dogs in 2012, his name is part of a Washington State theme.  He's named for a beautiful bay that is east of Washington's San Juan Islands.  Here's a good photo of it taken from Larrabee State Park - http://www.flickr.com/photos/patmeyer36/3438390691/