My Favorite Things: D is for Dogs

By Bameskaur Pabla @bameslive

Scruffy

I love dogs. I always have since I was a little girl. Our very first dog was Scruffy. He was given to us by our next door neighbor in the Philippines after some thugs hid in the dark corners of our yard and attacked my parents one night as they came home. He died of old age soon after my Mom died. I think he just couldn't handle missing my Mom. 

Soni

Since Scruffy, we had several canine babies. All of them loved and spoiled rotten. 

Jyoti

When I came to live in India, we had Soni. She was a beautiful Indian Spitz (a breed commonly referred to here as a Pomeranian). I was with her when she gave birth to a girl pup we named Rani and also when she had her two boy pups -- Jyoti and Moti.

Lucky

Plucky at age 3 months

We also had a wonderful Yellow Labrador -- a gorgeous Dudley -- we named Lucky (we were lucky to have had him in our lives for 5 great years). Because Jyoti is now close to her 13th birthday and he took Lucky's passing really hard, we got another Yellow Labrador that we call Plucky.