We lost our friend today.
Nearly 8 years ago we started our family with a Rottweiler. I had wanted one for as long as I could remember, but the wifey wanted a lap dog (which she got!). I was applying for the FBI and to the point I had to sign an affidavit that I would move wherever I was assigned. With a 4 year residency in St. Louis, that wasn't going to be the best way to start a marriage... so we made a deal.
Nearly 8 years ago we started our family with a Rottweiler. I had wanted one for as long as I could remember, but the wifey wanted a lap dog (which she got!). I was applying for the FBI and to the point I had to sign an affidavit that I would move wherever I was assigned. With a 4 year residency in St. Louis, that wasn't going to be the best way to start a marriage... so we made a deal.
We had just gotten married, both changed jobs, and bought a house; why not get a dog too? With cash in hand we drove out into the boonies and returned with Tini. Little did I know she would be within 5 feet of me, 12 hours a day for 8 wonderful years. She came into our lives as she would eventually leave them, head in our hands.
She was the sweetest, most beautiful and most stubborn creature I had ever lived with, and so was Martini.
Long hours at the hospital often led to jealousy of 2 best friends, drinking buddies and bed mates.
But they always made up.
We could not have been happier!
Until.....
Time for us to both change jobs, move, and have a baby!
And then there were two!
A complete family.
“He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.”
― John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
In loving Memory of Martini Von Walker.
We'll see you at the rainbow bridge... we miss you.
