Sally, that's lovely.
I feel the same, particularly when I see Lurcherboy and Pip playing together and the dcs playing with Pip.
Oldgirl was the sort of dog who would happily play for hours on end and the dcs loved throwing her ball and frisbee for her. She used to sit outside the kitchen window all the time with a big grin on her face trying to entice me outside for a game and after we lost her I couldn't bear to stand at the sink/worktop anymore, because every time I did the grief got a little bit bigger. Now I can look out of the window and still be a little sad that my girl isn't there, but smile or even laugh at Pip's antics. That is, when I'm not charging outside after him to retrieve mud/grass/greengage from his chops. 
Lurcherboy has raw eggs once or twice a week too, as he's raw fed anyway and a big, strong, healthy boy, but I'm very cautious about Pip's digestion at the moment. (Although why on earth I worry when he seems to be able to digest all manner of disgusting garden detrius with no problem at all, I don't know. 
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Just back from two hours in town. I think I may have actually sat on every bench on the main street and was getting some very funny looks by the end of our trip, as people kept passing me on one bench then finding me on another when they walked back the other way. 
Dh took ds2 to get his glasses fixed and was promptly told off because he's late for his eye test and told to come back in 20 minutes to have it done there and then. Then ds1 and dh went to get a sim for dh's old phone, so he's got one for school next week - and that little lot took two hours! We were supposed to be getting the boys' hair cut, but the hairdressers had just closed up shop for the day by the time we got there.
Still, we met four or five dogs, lots of different people, a scary clown selling balloon models, mobility scooters and wheelchairs, screaming babies and toddlers and no end of other interesting things for a puppy to be fascinated by.
We saw the strangest looking dog actually. It was clearly a staffie x terrier of some sort, but looked for all the world like a brindle staffie with a terrier's beardy head stuck on it. Completely smooth coated and staffie shaped at the back, with the head of a Scottie at the front. 
I bet it was super cute as a puppy. 