Hello Lisa We thought it was a good time to send you a couple of snaps and update you on Juno's progress.  Basically, she's an absolute sweetheart and the whole family is in love with her!  She's beginning to understand some basic commands and will sit, give you her paw and lay down.  At a push she'll 'roll over and die for the queen' a trick our friends taught her!  We're pretty sure she understands a lot more than she's letting on as she is very cheeky and at times wilful - particularly when you try to get her off the sofa!  My next job is to get along to training with her - mostly for me I think.  Growing wise she has suddenly got rather huge, with long legs and massive paws!  We're also finding that her coat is changing, her head's a different colour to the rest of her at the moment and she's also getting covered in white hairs!  We think she'll be a salt 'n' pepper dog.  She's going grey at a quicker rate than me - which is saying something after all our building work (how's your's going)! Juno loves her crate/bedroom and trots in to go to bed.  We've had a new dog flap put into the wall in the extension, but it's looking suspiciously small....   She loves to go up to the children's rooms and take a toy then bring it down to the lounge to play - if the kids don't know where anything is, they just look there.  The whole family's shoes are in constant jeopady and finding a pair is sometimes a trial - my slippers have suffered terribly and may not be salvagable soon.  our son, (9 yrs) keeps kneeling on the floor with Juno and she thinks he's another puppy up for a game.  He's the member of the family with the most tooth holes in his clothes. our daughter (12) takes her for lots of walks and is very organised with poo bags and treats.  our son (7) you can see in the photo I've sent - in these snaps she was helping out with the gardening.....mmmm....more like running off with the tools, sitting on the bag of compost and chewing the plastic pots!! Juno loves watching the seagulls but unfortunately still remains under the illusion she could possibly catch one.  She's extremely sociable with humans and dogs alike, which is just as well because we can't actually go anywhere at all without having to stop and speak to people who have also instantly fallen in love with her and want a stroke and a lick.  She loves comapny and always wants to be at our feet at the computer, reading, eating, watching TV you name it.  The other day I did the tiling and she got covered in grout which I then had to brush out!!  She is desperately wanting to be sociable with our cat, Shirley, but Shirl's not having any of it and and is herself most anti-social so generally hisses and takes fiercesome swipes at Juno from her, normally, higher vantage point.  Juno is never put off from making friends with her though (another puppy for play?) and continues to woof, paws down and bottom/tail up despite to obvious attempts to put her off. Juno spends most time with me because I work from home etc. She jumps in the car and collects the children from school and comes to my office and so on.  Also Cath and I love to wander to Hove lawns and walk along by the sea and get a coffee.  She's still not totally sure of the actual sea but we're taking that slowly - it must seem like a huge noisy frothing thing at the moment, so, along with buses, umbrellas, vans, statues and red post boxes she's a tiny bit fearful just now.  However, against all the odds, she is fine about the weekly fireworks that are set off on the pier every Saturday night and skips along quite happily while they are going off all over the place.  OK that's the low-down in the household. Hope all's well with you best wishes