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I sad very sad to say that Jake, my best friend besides my wife, passed away today. Given that he was a dog, and lived only 13 years, I have to say that he was the best dog I have ever met. Sure I am biased, but truly he was special. I have had dogs before, and have been attached to them as companions, but none like Jake. Jake spent his life with teh desire to be with people.

I found Jake at a pet store, he was older than most of the dogs there but had a quality about him that none of the other dogs had. So when I stopped to look at him, he didn’t bark or jump around instead he looked at me with eyes that said so much that I had to get him out to interact with him. While he was curious about his surroundings in the place that you get to interact with the potential pets, he was more interested in me and what I was doing. Which of course was playing with him. We spent some time together, as much as you can spend at a pet store, but in that short time had already formed a bond. So I took him home. Not that it was the best thing for me, but I could not excuse the expectant look of hope in his eyes.

Puppies have an unique way of looking at the world everything so new and exciting. WHile most dogs loose some of that over time, Jake was always like a puppy. Not in the normal ways, but more in the way that he looked at you with that expression that conveys gratitude and love at the same time. Jake could always melt your heart with a look.

As he got older, he suffered many of the things that large dogs do. His rear legs got stiff and a constant pain was with him. He would push through the pain to go outside with whomever was going to feed the horses or work in the yard. You could take him to down to the mailbox, work in the front yard, or just sit on the porch and he was always close by. He just wanted to be with people.

I will miss him.