Current on all vaccinations and presently on monthly heart worm preventative.

Some of you will recognize Gainsborough's painting, Blue Boy.  It is said that he painted this in response to an opinion expressed by another artist that were the cooler colors to be used as the primary focus of a painting, it would be rendered unsalvageable by even a great artist.  In the years since, if the painting itself did not persuade otherwise, it's worldwide popularity and enthusiastic acceptance has certainly done so.  And as with the Blue Boy in the famous painting, our present Dobie is destined to widespread acclaim and favor as well.

With the arrival of Blue Boy, number four of five from the same family has arrived at Elijah's House.  You'll find his other family members among the various other profiles in this section.

The simple truth of the matter is that these are all lovely, healthy, happy, dogs from a loving home that could no longer keep them and came to that most difficult of all choices to give them up for adoption in the best interest of the dogs, despite the heartbreak for the human family.

When I was 2 1/2, my birth mother made that same, heart-wrenching choice as she gave up her four youngest (of nine) when she could no longer care for us adequately.  It grieved her all her life, but she took solace as she had occasion to see us thrive in later years as a result of the opportunities provided in the homes into which we had been adopted.  Of course, dogs are dogs and people are people, but for a family that truly loves its dogs, as this family did, it surely has been a most difficult choice nonetheless.

In this case, too, what will mitigate the former family's heartache will be to know that each of the dogs has been adopted to a new, loving, forever home where it adapts to the new environment and flourishes in the love and care of the new family.

Descriptively there's not much more or different to say about Blue Boy than has already been said about his sibling, Blackie (or for that matter, his other siblings).  As mentioned above, he is in fine condition all around, a beautiful specimen of our beloved breed who comes and sits on command and who just loves to play and be loved.

Gainsborough's painting was "adopted" when it was sold and transported from its native England to the United States in the early 1900's.  In the years since, it has become one of the most readily recognized and loved pieces of art in existence.

Our Blue Boy may never rise to similar fame or dollar value, but the family that adopts him will surely love and cherish him more than the painting with which he shares a name.