Happy Birthday Josey

NEWS FLASH! Josey is 4 years old today!!!!!

Three years ago today, my dog Josey, entered my life. Josey is hands down my best friend, number one adventure partner, a trusty companion no matter what challenge we are faced with, and quite frankly the love of my life. To celebrate three amazing years with my girl, here is a brief, photo dominated montage history of my dear pup.

This is the first picture I ever took of Josey:

It took forever to name her. A solid week if I remember correctly. Some amazing suggestions like "JAWS" "Nono" "Leaveit" and "Sunday" surfaced via the power of Facebook but finally it was decided that Josey should be her name. The true story of Josey's name is that for about the first year I was adamant that it be spelled Joesy. A phonetic spelling made sense to me. It didn't to pretty everyone else. So eventually I resigned to Joesy being called Josey and often Josie as well. She's also Jawsie, and Dozer, and Josey Bear and so forth... in the long run she doesn't care what the hell her name is so long as she gets food when its called.

The first couple months with Josey were a little rough:

As pictured here, she was a master at making quality messes if left with the proper materials in reach... she could open the door to the bed room, jump the fence, and empty bags of potting soil with grace. Apart from the messes, Josey's finest moment of early stage debauchery came the day she decided to chew open and consume a large portion of a value-sized bottle of ibuprofen. At that moment, Josey appreciated from a $99 pound dog to a $2000 medical marvel. Outside of being massively expensive, those couple days in doggy ER were scary!


But after a while, she settled in...

...and eventually made it to through her first year!

Now Joes is the quite simply the coolest dog in the world!

I kid you not, I wake up everyday and love her more. This mildly feral res dog is top notch: she can run all day, doesn't get cold easily, is super tolerant, patient, a major trooper, and is pretty much open to trying anything within reason. On top of that, she's a well traveled pup at this juncture too! Josey and I hit the trails running most days, we backpack in the summer, are taking up backcountry skiing this winter... she hangs at the crag like a pro and road trips with little complaint... 

Josey, Happy Birthday! 

Love,

Your Crazy Dog Lady Mom