Here is a video of the dog I got a couple of months or so ago - his name is Cloud and he is a white German Shepherd. He had apparently been called nigger before that - everyone was trying to guess what he was named and would come to, and when my nephew jokingly tried that name, he came running and it was repeatable. He knows his new name now. This video was recorded the day I got him, before I thought of what to name him. My voice/the way I talk sounds weird, I have always had that retarded sounding way of speaking so try to ignore it.
Tryp, so good to hear from you! And what a gorgeous new friend you have--he's so happy! (And stop saying your voice sounds weird--it doesn't!).
and infinitescience, both of those cats are beautiful. I have a (once) feral kitty, too. We've had her for about 8 years now and she has finally started acting like our other cats only in the last couple of years.