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Who in the World is Oreo?

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My mom Misty Me! I was found in an abandoned house in Texas with my siblings and mom Misty, a lab/border collie mix. I was held back from adoption one week longer than my five surviving siblings because I had a cough and needed time to recover, so I am the last of the litter to be adopted.  Now that I found a great home, my mom was listed as adoptable too.  She is almost 60 pounds so even though my dad is a mystery, I will probably be a pretty big guy.    
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Our family dog hunt

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Click link for a photo album of Oreo's adoption  https://photos.app.goo.gl/9nxaveaonQQP3Amt6        Oreo and his mouse Over the years, we had always discussed adding a dog to our family at some point.  Derek grew up with several dogs, and I had one, Muffin, an Airedale Terrier mix that we acquired while I was in fifth grade because the Collie pups my dad had just seen at the shelter were already installed in their new homes.  My mom and dad had both had Collies when they were younger; mom had Lucky and dad had Shep, who came along with the apple farm property his family was moving to in the late 1950's.  Derek's family had a variety of breeds; starting with two St. Bernard's his parents owned before he was born, a  and several black Labs, the last two of which I met in the Spring of 2004 when I visited his parents at their North Carolina home while his mother was ill.  In our family discussions, we planned to wait until we had a home wit...
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