I lost my best friend yesterday.  

His name was Armand but was also known as Booze.  He was a beautiful buff boy who could sniff out a tennis ball at 100 yards.

I got him in the mountains of Northern California at almost 5 months... and we have traveled so many places together.  We drove across Canada camping most nights from Toronto to Vancouver.    I remember one spot we were in a small river and rather than swim, he would leap from point to point.  At about the 5th or 6th hop he hit a deep pocket and I heard a big kerplash and turned around to see a most confused pet.  We lived in Petaluma, CA;  Kihei, Hi, San Francisco, Ca and we wound up at the edge of a rain forest in east Hawaii. 

He helped me morn the loss of both my parents.  He was with me through so many changes both good and bad and I shall miss him....   he was 12

David D.