Here is Chief a few days after he came home from the shelter in July 2002. Well, officially I picked him up from the vet where he got the ol’ snip snip, as spaying/neutering is a requirement for animals adopted from the shelter. He was about six months old then, and SO precious.

These days he’s an old man of a dog, but he can still dog park & fetch & jog with the best of his peers, even if it takes him a few days of napping to recover.