Thanks Bugs! I'm a Schnauzer fanatic. They just crack me up. Our first, Willie, lived 17 and half years!
So Diablo - the coonhound-doberman mix - came home from the shelter with my wife for a "trial run", all unbeknownst to me. I was sitting at my home office, the door opens and in runs this crazy dog. He tears through the house for an hour or more. I'm thinking this is more dog than I want to deal with. Pretty soon, I realize there's silence. So I go room to room trying to find him and discovered him lounging on the couch in front of the big screen TV

Obviously, he found his home and was with us for about 10 years. His main problem is he thought of himself as a lapdog.