RIP, Sparky (VGD)

VGD = Very Good Dog -- the best, and most important, title a dog can ever have.

Our dog Sparky died over Labor Day weekend. It was a pretty tough thing to deal with -- he was a good dog, and we knew he was getting old, but he went pretty quickly.

We got him in early 2001 at an undetermined age from a shelter on the Eastern Shore. He'd been living under a junked car before we got him, and we washed a lot of engine oil out of his fur when we got him home. He probably was between 10 and 12 when he died.