Sun Mote Copse Won't you take my cane and hold my hand

So these new pups, they'd be just as much his siblings as Nellie was, basically. Half-siblings, but...He wasn't to consider them any different. He could do that. He was attached enough to his mother that any child of hers would be a sibling of his, no matter who the father was, but that was another role he had to suss out, so he thought for a few moments, before he finally looked up at her, waiting to see if she was ready for his next question. 

"Does this...Does this mean that I have to call Phox 'Dad'?" He asked slowly, reluctantly.