Finally found this thread, and read up on it. Puddles sure is a cutie, looks very much like Pee Wee. I would love to see the "blue" one your sister got! I guess that would be a grayish colored one? Didn't know they came in that color.
Larkin, that dog is HUGE! He looks like he would get along with everyone and everything. At first I thought he looked very much like my Yukon, the pup that showed up here a little over a year ago, but when you said he was over 150#, I knew he was nothing compared in size. Yukon maybe weighs 40# at most. He's a skinny thing, even though I push food to him all the time. Oh well, he's trying to keep his boyish figure.