The cutest puppy I've ever had.

Here's Rudy.  He's a very good boy.  He's the dog I wanted when I was growing up, but we didn't end up together until my 25th birthday.
He's a pitt bull lab mix, one of ten puppies, back in December 2000.  No one likes it when I say he's a pitt bull mix, for sad reasons.  But then they say, "he must be more like a lab."  In reality, the biggest problem concerning pitt bulls, or Staffordshire Terriers, is simply when they get in the wrong hands.  They are very trainable dogs, and Rudy has been trained to mind us and behave, besides being the meekest, mildest, old soul puppy we'd ever seen when he was amongst the litter for adoption at PetsMart.

Here we see Rudy still in his costume after helping me pass out KitKats to the children from my business on Main Street.

This is Rudy's first exposure to snow back in North Carolina.  He doesn't like rain.  He doesn't like snow.  Rudy doesn't like it when his feathers get wet.  If it's raining outside, he prefers to 'hold it'.