My Mama, Daddy and I lived in Memphis for about a year after I was born. When I was about your age (14 months), my family moved 60 miles west to Forrest City, Arkansas where my Daddy (your Great-Granddaddy; 1916 - 1999) owned a small factory that made work socks for men. He also owned a Dairy Queen that sold soft serve ice cream.
Somewhere in a box I have a video of my family made in about 1948 that you may like to see sometime. When you see it, you may think that you and I look a lot alike at that age?One thing you need to know about me is that I dearly LOVE dogs (especially puppies). My family hadn't lived in Arkansas very long before our Cocker Spaniel named Jett (they named her that because she was "jet black") had a litter of puppies. Here is what Cocker puppies look like:
Here is a grown Cocker Spaniel:
You'll be able to see Jett and her puppies in that video I mentioned above.My Mama (1920 - 2006), your Great-Grandmama (your Mommy called her Marty) loved to tell a story about me and my first experience with "Dobie," the Doberman Pinscher across the street. When I was just a little older than you, I was playing in the front yard of our house and Mama was keeping an eye on me out the kitchen window. She turned her head for just a moment and when she looked back I was standing there having stuck my entire arm down Dobie's throat up to my shoulder. She ran outside afraid that he would bite my arm off but quickly realized that Dobie was like most Dobermans and was very gentle and not aggressive unless his/her family was in danger. I was fine except that my arm was wet from being in Dobie's mouth. That was our family's first experience with Dobermans and over the years we had a number of them as pets (Tinka, Skipper, Machen, Luke, Zack). They are wonderful family dogs... very gentle, loving and protective of their family if they are in danger. Here is a picture of a grown Doberman and a litter of black and red puppies:
Look at how big the puppies' feet are. This picture was taken before these puppies have had their ears trimmed to stand up like the adult (above).Here is a wonderful picture of a mother Doberman kissing/thanking a fireman who saved her babies from a fire:
Right now I have three dogs: Baxter, Boone and Mosby. They are all rescued mutts (not pure bred). Here is a picture of them:Baxter with a friend of mine... he is very big... about 120 pounds:
Boone in my truck (he's a VERY happy dog):
This is Mosby:
I'll tell you some more about my other dogs later. I hope you get to have a dog of your own... it's something every boy needs.
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