Goodbye Lucky Fat Boy Carl.
Goodbye Lucky Fat Boy Carl . My best, unconditionally loving best friend of the past 15 years said goodbye to us yesterday . He made his final pass through the back porch doggie door into a new reality, a better backyard and a new beginning . Fatboy arrived at my home one day, many years ago, a gift from my then wife’s daughter, Jessica . At just 6 weeks old he was a ball of fluff that required, I soon found out, trimming every six weeks, just like me . He was the biggest in the liter and was consequently saddled with the name . He was just a fat boy . At the time we thought that his name wasn’t great choice, a sweet dog should not be named for death that the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima caused . Fortunately, it turned out we were wrong . The names used then were Little Boy and Fat Man, so we decided to...