(yet another) Happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday to Cody, The World's Least Scary German Shepherd © !!!

He's going to be this many on Tuesday, 5.1:

I adopted him when he was 6 months old - he was "too much dog" for the family that spent about eleventy thousand dollars to get him straight off the boat from Germany.

Look how fast he grew between - he's 1 here (and yeah, I sometimes torture him like this>

He has provenance papers about 40 miles long, but I never bothered to register him because he's always just been Cody. In deference to his heritage, he's sometimes referred to as "The Uber Goober", but he also answers to "What are you doing in there and why are you so quiet?".

Age has begun to show; his snout is getting greyer by the day, and it sometimes takes him two attempts to hop up on the bed, but the sonar generated by his enormous ears can still sense a refrigerator being opened at 500 paces.

He's my friend, and when I open the door at the end of a long commute, it's good to see him and his big dorky face waiting for me.