This is Huxley a Bichon Frisé / Poodle mix whom we adopted from the Humane Society last week.

He’s a year and a half old, house-trained and very, very snuggly.  This is good until you have to leave at which point he barks hysterically. He never barks otherwise. Unless the doorbell rings (on TV or otherwise.) Or he sees a rabbit… rabbits are awesome.

He’s a eunuch now, though he doesn’t know it and will happily try to take over the territory of another dog. He runs into issues proving his manhood when he walks, since he prances like a poodle.

He has yet to figure out that he’s my dog and follows my wife around adoringly. If I walk out the door he looks for my wife.  If she walks out the door he sits by it and whimpers softly.

He’ll play fetch but he won’t give you the ball; you have to take it. He does, however, throw the ball to himself by tossing it backwards over his back.

The name came from a scientist contemporary to Charles Darwin Thomas Henry Huxley. Huxley was a talented comparative anatomist who was an early and vocal proponent of Darwin’s theory of evolution earning him the nickname ‘Darwin’s Bulldog.’ Plus this allows me to name my dog Huxley Humes which is awesomely alliterative.

Hello Huxley!