Since I met Mary in the late Spring of 1999, I have grown to really love our pets. I wanted a dog as a kid but Dad was intolerant of ill trained dogs and Mom didn't have the patience to train.
Raja was Mary's first dog of her own.
Border Collie/Rottweiller mix. Smart and spiteful:
Our second dog was Mopar!
Samson was next. Those three had 5 years together.
Raja, the one in the center above, developed bone cancer at 13. Mopar the lab had a knee surgery that went bad. We had the leg removed and he got around pretty good for a couple of years.
In 2009, my older brother got sick and asked us to take in his Lab/Pit Bull mix "Buddy".
He was a fun dog. He would bark at certain words, howl at bagpipes on TV, walk around the house giving a random "Woo Woo" for no apparent reason. He lived to be 15.
Mary eased her pain of losing Raja with this one we named Rocket. He is fast and loves to catch frisbees.