It has now been three years since Houdini came to live with the Rouse family and he seems extremely pleased to be here.  These are the pictures I took of him at our local animal shelter where he had been picked up along side the road by one of our Animal Control Officers.  He had been there several days and it  just so happened he had only one day left to be available for adoption.

Rick and I had been going by the shelter each week to take pictures of the animals and put them on www.petfinder.com, and when they brought Houdini around the corner the first thing he did was plant those big paws of his up on my chest.  It was “love at first sight” for both of us.  Rick wasn’t as fast to fall in love with this big white furball.  We did not take him home with us that day, but we were there when the shelter opened the next day and as they say…”the rest is history”.