That's Ruff!

whenever he starts looking in mirrors and starts to figure things out.

I told my daughter at 8, the truth. Since she is dark chocolate, and her mom is milk chocolate, and I'm neither. She respects me for it, sincerely.

[& mom is in time out, in the pen, for being wicked naughty]

that varies and only you know your dog the best, just remember the 1 dog year = 7 human year rule. :D

[b]As long as mines don't know the location of his adoption papers, we good! LOL[/b]