This is Cocoa Channel Bootsie. AKA Cocoa. (Named by a 14 year old girl.) She is now 8. Shelter mutt, 35 pound Beagle/Lab mix. She is an extremely affectionate snuggle dog that would fight to her death protecting her humans. She is not the sharpest tool in the shed, but smart enough to know mom sets the rules so keep her feet warm. She has strong predator instincts so she rarely barks. (UPS man bad, letter carrier okay, go figure) Always stocking and tracking scents. She goes everywhere with us. My kids call her Velcro because she follows me everywhere.
Cocoa as a warmer in the sleeping bag with my wife keeps my 50 something year old spouse still willing to tent camp. Cocoa loves to trout fish almost as much as my wife. (No joke, they both love sitting on the bank of a lake for hours)
She still goes nuts like a puppy and destroys Amazon boxes left in her day bed. She is a talker, she makes sounds whining, growling that are so human like it is funny, mostly when my wife gets home from work and speaks gently to her asking her how her day was.
Oldest daughter now lives out of state, visits once or twice a year. Cocoa pounces on her like no one else as if she remembers that daughter was with me the day we adopted her.
Duane
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