8/20/11:

We call him Zee or ZeeMan. Things are going well, although he has gotten much bigger than we anticipated - VERY long legs and tall - 17" at the shoulder and weighs about 20# - barely fits through the doggie door, but he manages.

Zee gets along well with our other dog, and has helped a lot with her loneliness. The cats have taken longer as he's a bundle of energy. He's nothing like we've ever experienced, but we are learning how to deal his energy and enjoying games of fetch.

We are still having licking issues, as well as a new one of biting, but feel the biting is a result of being home from vacation and not spending as much one-on-one time with him. Not really biting, but adding teeth to his licks, if that makes sense. Working on that...