Happy New Year!
2018 is the Year of the Dog.
You have received many New Year's cards
with dogs on them, haven't you?
Are you a cat lover or a dog lover?
My daughter and I are dog lovers.
We decided to keep two dogs,
when my daughter was 7 years old.
A neighbor's dog had 4 babies
and the neighbor said she could not keep
all of them.
So I offered to take on two of them.
Those two dogs were brothers.
(43 years ago)
![](https://blogimg.goo.ne.jp/user_image/5d/63/382fe25b78efb292cf32841adeb38f50.jpg)
My daughter and I named one Pepe
and the other Bull.
In those days I was so busy with work and
I used to come home later than my daughter.
So my daughter, an elementary school girl,
was all alone most of the evenings.
Bull and Pepe were my daughter's
very good guard dogs.
![](https://blogimg.goo.ne.jp/user_image/58/65/6addbe4384fb172f09bdd01e5adb3c92.jpg)
Bull died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 8.
Pepe died of old age when he was 16.
Oh, the Year of the Dog reminded me of my younger days.
Let me say again,
"HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYBODY!"
2018 is the Year of the Dog.
You have received many New Year's cards
with dogs on them, haven't you?
Are you a cat lover or a dog lover?
My daughter and I are dog lovers.
We decided to keep two dogs,
when my daughter was 7 years old.
A neighbor's dog had 4 babies
and the neighbor said she could not keep
all of them.
So I offered to take on two of them.
Those two dogs were brothers.
(43 years ago)
![](https://blogimg.goo.ne.jp/user_image/5d/63/382fe25b78efb292cf32841adeb38f50.jpg)
My daughter and I named one Pepe
and the other Bull.
In those days I was so busy with work and
I used to come home later than my daughter.
So my daughter, an elementary school girl,
was all alone most of the evenings.
Bull and Pepe were my daughter's
very good guard dogs.
![](https://blogimg.goo.ne.jp/user_image/58/65/6addbe4384fb172f09bdd01e5adb3c92.jpg)
Bull died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 8.
Pepe died of old age when he was 16.
Oh, the Year of the Dog reminded me of my younger days.
Let me say again,
"HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYBODY!"