Bill and Cara

We've had two dogs. An Akita named Cara (her kennel name was Jomar’s Catch Me if You Can), and a retired racing Greyhound called Bill. Bill passed away on Sep 29th 2005, Cara passed away on Jan 17th 2006. The house feels so empty.

2005

A friend heard that Bill was ill and took a bunch of photos of him for us. So kind.

Bill Sep 2005.

Bill Sep 2005, this time with the girl.

In the snow - Jan 2004.

Cara during the St. Johns Bridge reopening, Sep 2005.

Satchmo now has more feline company. Over the last three years or so we've acquired two more cats.

This is Belldandy about to swat Satchmo.

KC in repose in front of a window.

Christmas for KC means wrapping paper.

Bell decided that the underside of the carpet was far too interesting. KC wasn't as sure.

2001

Recently (summer 2001) we've acquired a cat, by the name of Satchmo (since he has such big cheeks) - you won't find very many photo's of him here since he moves way too fast for my digital camera and if I use flash he always manages to get his eyes closed before the picture is complete. However I've managed to get one that shows him off accurately :-)

OK so this is a year for flat dogs, first we have Bill.

And then we have Cara :-)

2000

Cara playing Flyball. She loves it.

1998

Cara has stopped looking quite the dufus that she used to, and we've gained a new dog. Billy is a retired racing Greyhound, he's almost 7 in most of these shots. The snow shots go to prove that Portland does get some winter (though it didn't last very long), and were taken in the Winter of early 1998. The summer shorts (that's the ones with the bleached grass) were taken summer 1998, Cara is now about 20 months old.

Billy, looking remarkably alert.