Snickers, the cocker spaniel that spent 95 days adrift at sea with his original owners before being abandoned on Fanning Island for about four months, is finally at his new home in Las Vegas.

The brown-and-white pup, which is less than a year old, was checked out by his new veterinarian today, said Jack Joslin, who worked with the Hawaiian Humane Society, Norwegian Cruise Lines and government agencies to save the pup.

"I got him on Sunday evening at about 6 p.m.," Joslin said in a phone interview this morning. "He and I get along fine, but the problem is he doesn't like my 12-year-old female dog yet. He can be a beast. When he doesn't like something he let's you know it, but you have to remember that he spent four critical months of his life on an island basically with no one caring for him. He was basically wild, so it may take some time. It's a challenge."

Joslin adopted Snickers after learning about the puppy's plight in a sailing magazine. He's also still trying to work with the government from Fanning Island to bring back Gulliver, a pet macaw that also wasn't allowed on the cargo ship that saved the pets' original owners in December. In March, they sent word that they wouldn't be returning for the pets, and both faced euthanization.

"Right now Gulliver is well taken care of, but I don't know how long the government will let him stay on the island," Joslin said. "By law, he wasn't supposed to be allowed on there in the first place. There's a lot of red tape to go through to get him here, but we're going to keep trying to save him."

Joslin has a bit of a history with saving animals.

He adopted Snickers days after having to put down a border collie that he had found stranded on the side of the road on a Navajo reservation 15 years earlier. Missy -- the dog Snickers is learning to deal with -- is a mixed-breed that Joslin took in after finding her walking down Burbank Boulevard in Los Angeles 12 years ago.