Our dog Peanut is the cutest, sweetest dog on earth.  We got her at the Sioux Falls Humane Society.  We had a DNA test done (yeah, I know, for a dog) and she's a mix of Sheltie, Yellow Lab, Samoyed, and 50% unknown.

Peanut having a chai latte at Falls Park:

Peanut in charge at the office:

In 2007 we acquired a cat, or rather the cat acquired us as cats often do.  That summer a little black kitten would appear on the deck once in a while.  By the time we got back from vacation in late October, Deck Kitty (DK) had grown into a full size cat and now lives on the deck full time, when he's not sneaking into the house to wreck the place or lurking around the neighborhood to burn and pillage.  Here's DK in front of his heated deck condominium with a fleece-lined master bedroom and an electric heated water bowl:

Luckily DK gets along with Peanut very well and they're now immortalized on YouTube, goofing around in the backyard with a stick at our last house:

And then each fall our backyard becomes a major gathering place for deer for miles around.  I think they all agree to hold deer conventions here.  They especially like the bird feeders.  They whack the bird feeders with their heads until the seeds fall out, and then clean up underneath.  This was taken through the living room window last year.