Goodbye to Jake

We're all sad at TDTR this morning. My neighbor called at 6 AM to tell us that, Jake, our black-lab-mix male dog, had been hit and killed in the road.

Jake was a real sweetie, found at the pound and brought home as company for Daffy, our Pyrennes. He loved to play fetch, and he always ran to meet us with a "present" in his mouth -- usually a toy or stick, but sometimes just a rock or dried grass.

But he also jumped our six-foot fence, probably why he was in the pound as a "stray" in the first place. Everyone around us knew him because he visited all the neighbors, went hunting with some, kept other dogs company who couldn't jump THEIR fences. He was smart about almost everything, just not about the road.

We miss him already.