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<\/a>It was on that day that we decided to adopt our faithful friend, Humphrey.\u00a0 It was also the day the cats stopped speaking to us.<\/p>\nWe got Humph from a shelter.\u00a0 He is a cross between: a) a Rottweiler and a German Shepherd, b) a Rottweiler and and Irish Wolfhound, c) a German Shepherd and an Airedale Terrier, or d) all of the above.\u00a0 The answer is e) we have no freakin’ clue.\u00a0 People, especially strangers, love to guess but we just can’t figure it out.\u00a0 It’s almost more fun not knowing.\u00a0 We also don’t know how old he is.\u00a0 The folks at the shelter estimated at 9 months to a year old\u00a0last March, but he could\u00a0easily be younger or older than their\u00a0guess\u00a0and we would be none the wiser.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He had been abandoned by his family and left to fend for himself on the mean streets of Petawawa for over three weeks in late January\/early February of ’06, the coldest months of the year.\u00a0 The reason we know this is that the former owner told a shelter volunteer that they decided against having a family pooch, opened the door and, less than politely, asked him to leave (translation:\u00a0gave him a\u00a0swift kick in the ass).\u00a0Who does that?\u00a0 And by ‘that’ I mean first throw a dog out AND then tell someone that you did.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Duds.<\/p>\n
Looking back to a year ago, and knowing what I know now about the ownership of a 70lb dog, I would not change a thing.\u00a0 Well, I might make him less sheddy and a bit smaller (smaller dog = smaller poops).\u00a0 But overall I’m glad he joined us and we would not be the same without him.<\/p>\n Happy Anniversary, Buddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The great thing about blogs is that as you document your daily life, it becomes easy to scroll back to past events and reminisce.\u00a0 I did that today.\u00a0 Way back to March 1, 2006.\u00a0 An important anniversary forgotten and not acknowledged.\u00a0 Until now. It was on that day that we decided to adopt our faithful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[32,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>That family\u00a0missed out on a very fun-loving, affectionate, adorable, hilarious, and somewhat hard of hearing pet (translation: he often ignores when he’s being called).\u00a0 He’s awesome to have around, which is mostly underfoot when carrying a baby, laundry or anything else ackward and heavy. He is my very own guard dog during night runs or when Dan is away and he has recently become Jaia’s personal bodyguard, hovering around her when she cries.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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