I'm not sure exactly how my obsession with dogs started, I know I've always loved animals. While my friends growing up had imaginary friends, I had an imaginary dog, named Dog, that lived in my parents dirty clothes hamper. And while my friends had real dogs named Whopper, Shotzie and Joy, I had stuffed dogs named Fritz, Lucky, Puppy and Pongo. I was always jealous that my friends had dogs, never understood why parents didn't want me to have one. I had to settle with being the neighborhood dog sitter until I was about 10 or 11 years old.
I remember the day like it was last weekend. My mom had gone out of town on a business trip and my dad loaded my little sister, Susan, and I into the Suburban to take a ride. We pulled up to Dr. Stonesifer's house, I had been there before, had no idea why we were there that day. We walked up to the back of the house and there they were, the most beautiful litter of Yellow Lab puppies my eyes had ever seen. The rest you can say is history. We picked mom up from the airport about a day later, happened to stop by the Stonesifer's house on the way home, the puppy fell asleep in my mom's arms and dad passed the check over to Ms. Stonesifer. We were FINALLY going to have a dog at home.
Savannah was a great dog, named after one of my mom's favorite cities. I wanted to name her Emma, after Emmitt Smith of the Cowboys. The litter was born on Super Bowl Sunday and the Cowboys had won that year. (Looking back at it now, I guess I was just as obsessed with football as an 11 year old...but that is another blog, another time) I'd like to have said that I was not the typical kid that promised their parents that I would take care of her and always do it, I wasn't, but I'd like to think that I was a pretty big part of Savannah's upbringing. I loved that dog, loved everything about having a dog, and missed that dog like crazy when I went away to school.
Much like I don't know why I just have always loved dogs, I don't really know why I've decided to start this blog. I am not a writer, in fact, English was my WORST subject in school. I am a horrible speller and my whole life I have heard "you hold your pencil wrong." (and I do) What I do have is a big mouth, a lot of opinions and an observant way about me. The more I understand my dogs, the more I realize just how amazing they are, and how we all can learn a little bit about ourselves, through the eyes of our dogs.
"My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am" -unknown author
