the dog/lion/bear/goat named
"Dog"

I am your best friend,

Now, always, and especially

When you are eating.

RIP 23 April 2004

age 15 (106.5 "people" years)

my life is dimmed by your absence

Chows: they have beady little eyes ...

and YES!, they do have blue tongues,
but you can only see hers when she's smiling :-)

sometimes she hides by imitating roadkill ...

or by donning a fuzzwort costume
and napping on the boat.

but ABOVE ALL, she is not to be angered!

And now for something completely different.:

April '00: the fourth annual version of 'freshly shorn':

see the "goat" part?

 

... and of course, the obligatory 'before' picture: