Happy b'day Spike

Spike turned a year old today..

i have to confess.. i used to be shit scared of dogs. Probably because when I was a one-year-old, a dog tried to maul me.Once, a neighbor's dog, a huge burly Alsatian came a few inches from what I can only assume to be swallowing me whole. And I was a pretty big baby.
There's no proof that that incident actually occurred and there's a good chance i might just be making all this up.

My dog problems culminated a few years later when I was playing outside my home with my cousin Mike. We'd been out a while and decided to sit for a few minutes. With no warning other than a bunch of barking and a loud collar jangling, a large dog bolted towards my cuz bro. The dog easily knocked him over, no small feat to me considering how large a 12-year-old looked to an eight-year-old me. After defeating the leader of the pack (a two-person pack, but a pack nonetheless), the dog headed straight for me in an attempt to finish the job. I did the only thing I could. I ducked. Did Scotty the doggy bite me? Scratch me?Swallow me?Shoot me with the laser beam attached to his collar?

Worse - it jumped over me, kicking me in the head as it landed.

That's right - I am the only person in the world to have been jumpkicked in the head by a dog.

As I got older and less swallowable, I began realizing my fear of dogs was irrational. I am bigger than most dogs, and thus they should be afraid of me. But it's not Completely irrational. In a fight, a dog has less to lose. You can't reason with a dog. And dogs don't follow the 11th commandment of "thou shall not bite thy opponent in the crotchal area." Nevertheless, I'm now okay with most things of the dog-al persuasion.
My friend chetan helped me with this process, since his err.. bitch Danzy's a total wuss. Now don't get me wrong.. Danzy's an awesome dog and a great dog,but the meanest thing she ever did was chew on our socks.

And then one day there was born Spike.. Danzy's offspring.. now This doggydude is the lean mean tough machine-animal of our neighborhood. Don't get fooled by his innocent what-can-i-possibly-do-to-u look in the pic. that was taken when he was 6 months old and i had doggy biscuits in my hand too. Now He's celebrating his first birthday and he's already started humping his own mom.

Mofoing s.o.b.

Anyways here's wishing Spike a very happy birthday and here's to Danzy and Chetan as well.

Cheers.

Arf arf.