martin, apparently, the father is a pure bred schnauzer and the mother is a border collie mix. so they are some sort of working dogs i guess. they love being outside. when we take them out for walk, they are busy looking for things and sniffing everything on the ground. the one sitting down in the picture is lucy. she's the dominant one. the standing one is barrett. barrett won't go anywhere unless lucy is there to lead. but barrett is much more outgoing. lucy is very cautious. i'll have to take them to vet this thursday to check them out. being dominant, i would think lucy would be more perky, but she's always careful, check things out before doing anything.
from what i heard, they were born about 3-4 months ago. the owner of the dogs abandoned the mother and the pups. the mother and 3 puppies more or less roam around the neighborhood for awhile. the house right next to us love animals and they took the mother and puppies in. they gave away one of the puppies and lucy and barrett are the two that were left. my wife and kids saw them and decided that we can give them good a good home. my sons were determined to adapt dogs rather then buying them since they saw one of those tv ad about how the abandoned animials are abused. so it worked out good. they have good home, and i have two cute gals watching my figs. tho, i'm already training them not to go into my fig room. lol