Tucker

We had been married for just a year and had just purchased our first home when we started searching for a puppy in August of '02.  We agreed that we wanted a chocolate lab.  By September we had found him, and in October we were able to take him home.  We named him Tucker.

On Sunday morning, we said good-bye to Tucker.  He died after being sick for the past month due to Lymes Disease.  JD buried him in the back yard, and even though he's gone, we'll never forget him.

He did all the typical dog things, like shedding all over the place, puking every once in a while, barking when it wasn't necessary, begging (and drooling) for food, killing the grass wherever he peed, and leaving dog poo all over the lawn.

He was such a great dog that we forgave him all that.  He was incredibly gentle with the kids, even when they climbed all over him and pulled on his ears and tail.  We could trust him in the house all day and he was super easy to train to stay within the invisible fence.

I never finished this post (that I started a week ago) as I really wanted to go back and find pics of Tuck as a puppy and with the kids when they were little.  It hasn't happened yet and with school starting today, I don't know when or if it will, so I'm just going to grab a few recent pics, even though they aren't great to give an idea of what Tuck was like.  We miss him.  Ryley misses him the most.  She fell asleep crying last night (It was his birthday), with his leash and collar on her pillow :(