Lux & Ives
These are the dogs we adopted last week. Lux is on the left and Ives is on the right. They are chow mixes, which is why they have the dark tongues (according to our vet they are most likely mixed with either samoa or golden retreiver). We believe they are brother and sister despite some slight physical differences (such as their weight: he is 42 lbs and she is 27 lbs). Ives was named after Charles Ives, the American avant-guarde composer (one of Matthew's favs) and Lux was a name I got from the movie "The Virgin Suicides" and it also means "light."
They are nice, friendly, relatively low-key dogs for the most part. They like laying on anything soft.
Lux is the more playful of the two. She's also really clumsy. She hasn't mastered walking on the hardwood floors yet. She slips and slides all over the place. She's also really independent though and won't bug everyone for attention every second of the day. When she wants to go off on her own, she most likely is found hiding under something (and often sleeping), like a couch or chair.
Another one of Lux with Matthew.
Ives is more mellow than Lux for the most part: a true homebody and a total attention whore! He would be content letting you pet him until you wore the fur off his body, so it's a good thing he has a lot of it. He's a really sweet boy but he does this thing when he puts a paw on you to get attention. We're trying to train him not to do that so much because when you're not wearing jeans he sometimes inadvertently scratches you a bit. He's also our gentle giant. Despite being bigger than Lux, he is very gentle with all of his motions, the way he walks, how he lays down, etc. You hardly even hear him most of the time.
Me with the doggies. They are a lap full.