Today is Baron von Holtkamp's first birthday. He is officially four. Of our four pets he is the only one whose actual birthdate we know. All four came from rescue but he is the only one that came with paperwork complete from birth. the rest we have guesstimated and assigned to the closest holiday fitting the time frame. Thus the cats will be celebrating their birthday on April Fools Day and Pearl will celebrate hers on Independence Day.
I think it is kind of cool that his birthday is on Leap Day. In fact, if I had felt like we could change his name when we got him Leap would have been a good choice. But since we were his third family in a little over two years I felt like he should at least get to keep his name.
Baron is such an awesome guy. He has really come out of his shell in the last six to nine months and become the dog I knew he could be. He is no longer a shy, jumpy, skittish dog. He is now a self confident, alpha, well behaved, patient older brother to crazy Pearl.
His little sister really does bring out the best in him most of the time. Every once in a while he gets annoyed with her, like any older brother would, but on the whole they really do love each other. He even comes over to protect her from the cats when she doesn't have enough sense to walk away from them. if that doesn't show brotherly love, I don't know what does.
I'm so glad Baron joined our family almost two years ago. He is an awesome addition to our family. Thank you Houston Collie Rescue for helping us find him.
Jenn- Posted from my iPhone
