Happy 8th Birthday Jayda

We love you Peanut!!

4 Years ago today we adopted our beautiful "dogter", Jayda. Our lives have never been they same since. We don't know her official B-date, so we count it as today. We are very lucky she picked my Dad's truck to run in front of that day in Hyde Park. My Dad being the worlds biggest dog lover, slammed on his brakes and rescued Jayda from the on-coming traffic. He put her in the truck next to a terrified Mindy who feed her doughnuts until they found Jayda's home. Fate had it that they were looking for a new home for Jayda because she had issues with getting out of her kennel. They never mentioned that she was the Great Houdini and no kennel on earth would hold her. That would have been nice to know before we bought a $800 dog run that turned out to useless...but that is another story. Buzz had always wanted a Boxer, so my Dad took him to see Jayda...and it was love at first sight. Jayda came to live us a few days later.

Jayda made us a family and we don't know what we would do without her. She is truly the center of our universe and our pride and joy. I know we are a little dog crazy, but we couldn't love her more if she was was an actual child There has never been a dog with so much personality and feeling as Jayda. She is truly more human than dog. Not to mention smart. It is a little freaky at times. Unfortunately, now she is getting to be a little older she is starting to slow down a tiny bit, but thats okay with us. That just means a few less dog fights to break up...Thank goodness. We hope we have many, many more years to spend with her.

Enjoy the Jayda slide show. I had to share some of my favorite Jayda pix from one of my many Jayda photo files. There are a ton more, but I didn't have time to go through them all.