10 Months Old

 Walter is 10 months old

He is loving, funny, goofy, curious, demanding

clever, smart and wonderful.

When I adopted this wee little tyke

back in February I had no idea that he would be 

my only companion for a year, or perhaps longer...

I am his world, all that he knows,

so he has been loved and loved and loved

and he gives back to me even more.

More times a day than I can count,

he jumps, leaps, dives onto my lap, places a paw on 

either side of my neck and leans in cheek to cheek.

He holds there and then switches sides 

and then licks kisses till I make him stop. 

When he is not playing, he is either lying on my left leg while

chewing on a bully, lying between my ankles sleeping,

 tucked behind me on the couch sleeping, 

or perched behind my head on the couch 

with his chin on my shoulder.

Never more than 6 feet away from me.

Howie was the same;

remarkably the same.

Howie had something to do with

 Walter and I finding each other.

I just know it.

Z