[Brad’s Gramma]

OK. So. Like, nobody asked me for my opinion....

That said!

but once in a while, you get a “brainiac” that will attempt to outwit ~your~ outwitting of *it*...:)

I LOVE those kind of dogs.

Slithering away again....

[Salamander]

I've been “blessed” with two of them and I *suspect* God has just favored me with a third.

The first two are long gone.

The third is just now ‘showing his hand’, so to speak...:))

There are dogs you will always remember and then there are dogs you will NEVER forget.

Those two [and this potential new one] fall into the latter category.

If I wanted a pet who slavishly, constantly, robotically obeyed me as if it had no mind or will of its own, I'd just get a goldfish.

Those “smart @ss” dogs ][LOL] were the ones who had so much personality it was almost supernatural.

How I loved them for the sake of their “own selves” and miss them still.

[and we're talking 8 and 26 years gone, here but not a day goes by.....]