Whoever said diamonds were a girls best friend obviously never owned a dog! I have heard that repeated so many times and find it to be very true, now I will say I have never owned any diamonds but I do have a dog and hes truly my best friend!
Samuel Benjamin Joint is his name, and he’s been by my side literally for EVERYTHING! My mom was driving home from seeing Marley and Me and on a dark back country road she saw some eyes on the side of the road so she turned around and there on the side of the road was a black little puppy. Of course she picked him up and put him in the car to take him home. On those back roads there is very little light and it would have been all to easy for him to wonder out into the road and someone come around the corner and hit him. At this time I wasn’t living at home I was living with my boyfriend at the time in College Station (about 45 min away) a few days later I called and she told me about this adorable puppy she found but she was going to take him to the shelter because she already had a dog and she really didn’t have time to train or spend with a puppy. Me being an animal lover begged her to keep it, or least hold onto him long enough for me to talk to my boyfriend at the time and see if I could take him. She agreed to wait on me to talk to him, and a day or so before Valentines day I drove to my moms house and picked up the puppy and brought him back to College Station with me. That was February 2008, and hes still by my side 10 years later!
We have been through life together, hes saved me in more ways than one and more times than once. We have never spent more than a week (at most) apart. We have moved from College Station, to Dallas, To Dayton to Houston then back to Dayton and hes taken it like a champ. Most times going from farms to apartments. (which is an adjustment for dogs lol) One of my absolute biggest fears (it almost kept me from going on the race) is something happening to him while I am half a world away, and him thinking that I have abandoned him. Now its not like I am leaving him at a shelter or anything he will be with my parents so he will be well cared for, but you know no one takes care of your babies like you do. Truth be told he is like my child, he means the world to me and spending a year without him will definitely be at the top of the hardest things I will do in this year.
Leaving friends and family is always hard but when you are so used to having that little something extra it makes it that much harder! Thank goodness for technology because you better believe that there will be facetime and phone calls with him! Don’t judge me, he needs to know his mom loved him! lol
