besides the fact that we deal with loss too often and it's a lot of responsibility?

this brings me to a point on dogs, at least in our house, and no matter how many dogs we bring into our family it always holds up...

my favorite post of the year...

for the 7th year in a row i present the earthdog pack in all their glory: row 1 (l to r): merle, zig, phineus, slaterrow 2 (l to r): indi, carly, speck, ronanrow 3 (l to r): benny, odinrow 4 (l to r): jewel, jack, the dreaded shark, estellerow 5 (l to r): fletcher, pow wow, flanagan, maebyhere's the link to years 2009-2014...