July 2008: Welcome Home Mia Francesca!

A year into living here, Butkus got big, strong, and bored. The dog park had been an almost daily ritual, but the dude put on SO much muscle, that I was uncomfortable letting him play with smaller dogs at the park. So we put the kibash on the park. And Butkus got bored--really bored.

In the middle of a heat wave, when we had already taken a human stray into our small home, we decided to get Butkus a sister! She came from the Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation, and we thought she'd be a perfect fit for the family because her description said that, if she lived with another dog, it would need to be able to keep up with her rough play. Perfect.

Now Mia and Butkus play non-stop for about 95% of the day. After I die, I want to be reincarnated as one of our dogs, because it's a good life.