I'm excited, and happy to have a pupper again after our last one died last year. It's been a quiet 8 months!
Oh dear, I mustn't show that pic to my wife. She has been pestering me with wanting to have a dog for ages, and seeing such pictures I can hardly resist myself. I want to hold back that dog wish at least for a few more years (then our kids will be old enough to pester me with it as well so I'll probably give up and allow a dog). But it is cats for now.
Just think about how they smell, and that you have to walk it at 08:00h AM, on sunday, in the rain and snow, and how it will smell afterwards, and that while everyone in the family wanted it nobody except you ever walks it, and you have to pay ridiculous taxes for it, and how it will ruin all the things you like (chew on your miniatures, on your car's interior and your sofa and TV remotes and so on), and how you can't travel anymore because the dog doesn't fly in planes and takes too much space in your car, and isn't welcome in some countries anywhere and you can't just spontaneously leave him at home. My desire for dogs usually goas away if I do that.
Hmmmm read everything you wrote took it on board, thought the same but, NO! NOW I WANT A BLOODY DOG!!!!!!
My dog's called Derek. It was and is my favourite dog name, although in this case I think it suits him.