He’s not really from New Guinea (I only came up with it as an homage to “Weird Al” Yankovic and “Piano Man” Billy Joel (…and he’s talking with Vinnie, who’s still from New Guinea, and probably will be for life).

La La La La La La Dee Daaaaaaaaaaa!

Take that spell check.

Vinnie has many talents including:

He can run really fast;

He has good endurance when he is running;

He can jump pretty high; and

He likes squirrels, bunnies, chipmunks and birdies so much that he tries to catch them and the occasional possum.

If you’ve read this far you’ve probably figured out Vinnie is a dog and a very good boy at that.

Vinnie has profound love for his family and typically carries around a bone in his mouth when my superior half and I return home from an outing or running an errand.

I read about dogs that do this (carry something in their mouth when greeting you) are demonstrating their profound love for you.

Vinnie has yet to talk back about anything he disagrees with, unless you call a big smile from him as talk enough.

Every picture tells the story don’t it and Vinnie is very photogenic. He doesn’t take a bad picture. He kind of looks like Count Chocula when he is lying on his back with his paws in the air like he just don’t care. Vinnie can be very privacy oriented as he requested that I not reveal any photos of him in this post. I will possibly revisit this with him as his stature continues to grow. He is a pit rescue and stands about 1′ 8″ tall last time I was looking at him. I suppose you can say his height varies depending on your viewing angle.

We’ve had Vinnie for about a year and a half. He never ceases to at least make us smile several times a day. He learned to stop chewing towels before we came close to not having any. I don’t think you can say that about any other dogs. If you can, then I stand, actually sit, corrected. My bad.

The only thing that Vinnie as a dog has not conquered yet is going through the dog door without at least one of us holding it up for him to get in or out. It’s one of his quirks and it’s really not that bad. We’ll continue working on it, but not that businesslike as if that’s the only thing you have against him you understand how good a dog he is.

Vinnie does not have any interest in politics and that is refreshing. Someone could come to the door and ask for your vote and all he’d do is bark loud enough so that I can wake up from my nap.

If only humans had half of the qualities that Vinnie has, the world would be a better place.

Vinnie will probably not go viral anytime soon, but you never know what could happen–especially if Weird Al or the Piano Man end up getting involved.

Stranger things have happened.