What I like about my dog
almost everything
What my dog likes best about me
What's not to like? I'm a wonderful human being.
Number of people I've met through my dog
beyond counting
If I didn't have a dog, I'd like a...
iguana or an aardvark. I have turtle and more than two dozen fish.
A retired senior citizen, Jonny (aka Levi Demon) keeps busy as an activist for human and animal rights, reading 5 to 10 books per week, writing (primarily fantasy), composing music and writing lyrics, political activism , moderating his 12 Yahoo! groups (including zdogs [http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/zdogs/), watching or/and playing with his roommates (2 dogs, 1 turtle and an ever changing number of fish), cooking, and more. He is a member of the local Democratic Party Central Committee and active (important committees or board of directors) in several area community action type organizations.
Jonny describes himself as an eccentric universarian (which word he created). He's intelligent, talented and more than a little bit egotistical.
Previous canine family members now waiting at the Rainbow Bridge include Amie (black long-haired dachshund), Androvian, aka Judge H.D. Brown, usually called Brown Dog (chocolate wire-haired dachshund) and Andy (deaf Dalmatian).
Suzi, as was Andy the Dalmatian whom she mourned greatly when he died of old age in August 2007), was a "pound puppy". I never would have chosen her---but she chose me. When most of the other dogs at the pound were begging, "Please choose me!", Suzi communicated via telepathy, "It's about time you got here, Master, let's go home NOW!". She also chose her name and put it in my mind.
Suzi, being a terrier, feels strongly that no rodent has a right to exist. This goes double for black squirrels. We have about a dozen black squirrels living in the trees in our yards (both front and back) and a few hundred in the neighborhood. The squirrels love to tease Suzi, who doesn't understand how they can run up a tree but she can't run up it to catch them. We also have quite a few rabbits (rarely seen) in residence in the yards; Suzi does not grant them a right to exist either. She's never caught a squirrel or a rabbit and I don't think she ever will now that she's a "senior citizen" canine.
The hole in the couch cushion and the shredded paper on the floor are "puppy damage". Kevin loves to bounce (very much like Tigger in the Winnie-the-Pooh books), which is why he's called a kangaroo.
Kevin is farm-bred. I purchased him from a dairy farmer who breeds Labs to assist with his cows and sells the extra puppies. It's a sad commentary on our current society that I bought a purebred dog from a breeder for about half the exhorbitant fees now charged by "Humane Societies" for adoption ... and I had the advantage of knowing his breeding, background and probable disposition. Of course he came with all his puppy shots and a clean bill of health.
Suzi the little fuzzy terrierist (rough-coated Jack Russell) - Jonny the Demon in Levi's - Kevin the Kangaroo (Labrador retriever puppy) - February 2008
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Suzi the fuzzy JR terrierist - February 2008 - age 9¼ yars
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Kevin the Kangaroo - 19 March 2008 - age 6½ months
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Suzi the terrierist - February 2008
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Harley, non-canine family member who thinks and acts like a Jack Russell terrier - March 2008
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