Bob

This is our dog, Bob.



I love Bob. He's a great dog. We adopted him nearly exactly 6 years ago from someone Jared worked with that did alot of traveling which was hard on Bob. He was 6 at the time I believe. I think he's 12 and a half now. Maybe 13 and a half. I couldn't ever keep it straight based on when we got him and when his birthday was. He's so well behaved and such a good dog. He's only ever destroyed one thing he wasn't supposed to and it's only been in the past several years he's had accidents inside the house - but that hasn't even been too many and it's just due to his age. The poor dog has not gotten as much attention since the boys were born. But is so patient and likes to sleep on our bed with us at night :)
Sadly, Bob has skin cancer :( We had something suspicious removed this week and that's pretty pricy! The vet called today and said it's skin cancer and it's the kind that spreads. She'll call again Monday so we can discuss different things about it but I'm pretty sure there's another spot allready forming :( We can't pay to get these constantly removed when another one might show up the next week. They did remove the one in it's entirety so that would be good - if there weren't more. Given that he has cancer she said the only thing that can be done is keep him comfortable and consider removing them as they appear. He's acting normal now but I can tell you that aside from the fact they are expensive to remove he definately does not want to live most of the rest of his life with a cone on. he really hates it and it makes him nervous.
So...we have some hard decisions to make probably next week and as I'm sure whatever happens he'll be around a while longer we'll have some more hard decisions in the near future :(
Having pets can be hard because we love them so much :(