A boy's best friend

Lahki (pronounced Lucky) is Jayson's new best friend. She is darling! She is a black and tan Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. These small dogs are precious and originally bred for royalty as footwarmers or to sleep with them and draw the bugs away during the night (ok, we're talking a LONG time ago...). Well, we've had no footwarming or bug-drawing in this house...just FYI.


Famous people who have owned Cavaliers include former President Ronald Reagan, Jayson's very own Jr. High Pastor, Chad, and US!


Lahki became part of our family in June on Jayson's first day out of school and they have been inseparable ever since....until this week when Jayson went to camp and left Mom and Dad to care for the dog. Well, she's a poor substitute for our boy, but we are enjoying her. We can tell that she misses her constant companion and he sent a text telling us that he's missing her too! Jay thought he could teach her computer skills....but the tongue is mightier than the mouse! She won the licking battle!


The breeders named Lahki after her father, Black Knight's Luck (Lucky). Since she responded to that name the best, we decided to keep it. We have all come up with several nicknames for her including "princess", "muppet", "beastly", "goose", "goosums", "PUPsicle", etc.


As you can see, we are very happy with our new "best friend". However, after being the family princess for more than 16 years, the cat is not so thrilled!