...and here is a dog story to go along with our announcement about Zeus... When my Dad was a young buck (even younger than he is now;), he tried to convince my Mom they needed a family dog.  She was against it because the poor dog wouldn't have much of a backyard to run around in.  That didn't stop my Dad from lobbying her again and again.  Then, one day, he came up with a brilliant idea.  "Why don't I place a puppy in the arms of our two-year-old (me), ring the doorbell, and disappear so my wife opens the front door to this pleasant surprise?"  He enacted his plan, and really, who can resist a puppy in the arms of a two-year-old on the front porch?  A trickster he is.  She couldn't resist.  And that is the story of our first family dog.