Spot the dog

was an outside dog

  she slept on the deck

With her sister Trevor Novak

My dad named both of them

When dad brought them both home

He said we'd vote on which one to keep

But there were four of us and dad always had the last vote

so it was always a tie 

Mom got wise pretty quick

" You never intended to take one back!"

  My first dog was an all black Australian shepherd German shepherd mix born on Halloween

He was named Bruno Wasserteil

 after the radio correspondent 

"This is Bruno Wasserteil from Tel Aviv."

Bruno got loose and went across the road to see the neighbors dogs

but they chased him off and he got hit crossing the road

the doctor said he'd be okay but he died a few days later

We lived out in the country and downstairs we had the tv room and there was a sliding glass door

One night while watching tv my sister and I got scared by two bug eyes looking in at us.

It was a little dog with bug eyes curly hair stubby legs and a tail that spun around like a helicopter.

We named him Sam and kept him. So we had three dogs- Spot, Trevor Novak and Sam. 

The other two dogs were bigger than Sam but he strutted around like the boss cuz he was the only male. 

The neighbors up the hill had a pedigree beagle and she was in heat and somehow Sam got in there and made it with her. The neighbors were not happy.

Then Sam up and died. I guess he'd had his last hurrah.

The neighbors told dad they were going to put the puppies down so Pap went up and got one.

He had bug eyes stubby legs a tail that spun around like a helicopter and a beautiful beagle coat.

We named him Farley Mowat.