Yes, I had several dogs, my favorite was named Cheddar (as in cheese). I loved my pets as a boy, but as an adult, all my attempts at pet ownership have ended in disaster. There was the adopted stray we treated for heartworms successfully, who ran away the first time we let him into the fenced back yard, the sugar glider we smuggled on a plane from Florida who acquired a taste for human blood, the perfect, precious, wonderful kitty who died at age 6 months from a rare viral infection, the next kitty who is sweet and loving, but is aka the destroyer of worlds from Hell, now enjoying his new life as an outside kitty, the stories go on and on...
TPBM has won an award at an orchid show...