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5/16/2019

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     After our trip to Hawaii (see posts from 4/27/2019 - 5/13/2019 ), upon my arrival in Los Angeles on Monday, April 29, I was greeted by the usual things that, as many times as I've experienced them, never cease to delight me all over again:   The blue skies and palm trees,
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...the warm West Coast air, the colorful California  flora,
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...my daughter and son-in-law's cozy, inviting  home,
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...and the jungley  view from their back yard,
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​...and, of course, my grand daughters, with whom I'd just spent the week in Hawaii, and now would be spending another week.
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    And then there's my little grand dog Pinkey-Poo,
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​...to whom I made very clear when I first met him a couple of years ago that I was not a dog person. (See post from 7/28/2017, "I Am Not A Dog Person").
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   Upon my arrival this time I met the newest canine member of the family: Tyson
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    As to how Tyson arrived, apparently a neighbor of my daughter's posted on Nextdoor,  the neighborhood website, a photo of Tyson with a plea for someone to adopt him, as he was a rescue pup who'd over-stayed his allotted time in the shelter without being adopted and  was scheduled to be euthanized the following day.
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   As my daughter tells it, her heart was captured by the plight of this pooch with his adorably sad punim.
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    So now I have two grand dogs.
   As to what breed Tyson might be, that information is unknown, but it's been determined that he's around two years old, and he kinda looks like a cross between a sheep dog,
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​...a pit bull,
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...King Kong,
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...and, from certain angles, the creature from "Ghostbusters."
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     Though it's taken some time for Tyson to acclimate himself to the "do's" and "don't's" of life as a house-dog - he'd been neither spayed nor house-trained when he arrived -  he seems to be a pretty chill fellow by nature, who doesn't appear to mind sharing the humans,
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​...and generally puts up with pinky's annoying habit of jumping on him.
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       And, even though it's well known that I'm not a dog-lover, for some reason with Tyson it was love at first sight.
        I don't mean it was me who fell in love with him; it was him who fell in love with me.
        From the moment I met him, 
and snapped that first shot,
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...Tyson followed me around everywhere I went, which is probably why I got so many pictures of him: Every time I turned around, there he was behind me, looking up at me with those soulful eyes.
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   And even though I explained to Tyson that I'm not a dog person and requested that he kindly respect my space...
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​   Sometimes he'd even plop his paw or his head on my foot, as if he wanted to connect himself to me.
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    Of course, Tyson didn't love me exclusively,
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...but I do believe he loved me best.  Unless he just loved getting his picture taken,
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​...like his brother.
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Tommy
5/17/2019 01:01:11 pm

Awww!!

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