Puccini, Clara's sister is our impish boy.  He has escaped under the fence twice, earning himself the nickname "Puccini Houdini" and making us reinforce, spring-load and recheck our fenced-in backyard. Puccini also loves to "help" when Deborah is working at the dining room table.  There is always a present or a decoration that has been surreptitiously stolen, taken to a dog bed and "improved"!  Puccini loves to chase a ball (notice I didn't say retrieve...after all he's not a retriever) and his favourite game is to play hide and seek with his half-sister, Cassi.  He chases her around the L shaped living room-kitchen, doubling back in order to trap her!  If we miss Huggins’ request for water, Puccini will fling the empty dish around the room.   It is Impossible to keep his hair tied back, but how he makes us laugh!  And by the way, he loves to snuggle too!