Bailey, my co-pilot

I know, I am not flying an airplane, but I still have a co-pilot. About 10 months ago, my wife came home from work and dropped a bomb shell on me. She said that she thought we needed a dog to keep me company and make me go for walks. To her surprise, I jumped on the idea. About one year before this I had suffered a hemoragic stroke that should have killed me, but that is another story.

I immediately started to search dog breeders, animal shelters, and dog rescue shelters. I thought I wanted a labrodoodle or Goldendoodle. Upon visiting some breeders I determined that these dogs got too big when fully grown. I wanted puppy. My family panicked at the thought of a stroke survivor trying to train a puppy. I eventually listened to reason and started to search the web for rescue or pound dogs in the Seattle area.

I saw an ad for Gingers Pet Rescue. They were showing a group of rescued dogs that had been on death row. There were two Poodle mixes that. We were interested in. One male and one a smaller female.

I was immediately attracted to the male. He was in his crate watching what was going on but was not barking. I thought that was great. I was later to find out he barks at strangers, mail men, and anyone who rings the doorbell.

As you can guess, we fell head over heals, or should I say paws, for this dog. We were to find out that he is part Poodle and part Lhasa Apso. He definitely has traits of both. That's enough of Bailey's history for now.

Bailey does love to GO. It could be a walk, a car ride, or even a boat ride as long as he doesn't have to get in the water. He loves to see where I am going. At stop signs he loves to put his head between the front seats and lay his head on my shoulder and then look around to see where he is at. He knows when we are near home, my mothers apartment, and where my wife works.

He is such a change from our past pets. They all got car sick or howled, driving all humans nearby crazy. Bailey, just curls up and goes to sleep. Once in a while he looks around to see where the car is going. If all looks well he just goes back to sleep.

In another post I will share with you how Bailey thinks he can drive the car.



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