Jax's Joint

	Hi, everybody! If you've come to Dog Jog over the last few years, you probably already recognize me and know about my awesome skills - I have racked up several championships in the tail-wagging contest. What you may NOT know is that at first, my family didn't want me. "No way!" said my dad when he first heard about me. Now, before you get the wrong impression, my folks are cool. Dad just had some concerns....
	(here's what I looked like back then, in 2004) My family already had a dog named Lacy, who was rescued from Anchorage Animal Care & Control the year before. (See, I said my folks are cool.) Thing is, Lacy really HATES other dogs when she first meets them. She's the kind of girl who doesn't just roll over for you on the first hello. And she checked out several dogs from FOP before me, and vetoed all of them. Then my rescuer Michele told them about me.
	She said she'd been at Animal Care & Control to consider taking a litter of 10 Chihuahua puppies into rescue. The folks there made her a deal - take all the puppies and get me for free. (I think of it as a BONUS.) I had some respiratory problems, and it turned out that my bad eye couldn't be saved. My folks listened to the story, but my dad said he really didn't want a little one-eyed ankle biter running around, and besides, what would Lacy think? A few more dogs struck out with her, and Michele kept bringing up my name....
	They agreed to meet me at the Dimond High hockey rink on a nice spring day. Dad says when they drove up and saw me, they said they hoped that wasn't the dog Michele meant. It was. Lacy took off after me, and my folks thought she was going to eat me! But we just played and played, chasing each other, wrestling and running. Lacy loved me and I loved her too! My folks just couldn't say no. So really it's Lacy who adopted me, my family just agreed to it. Now wasn't that smart?
I am the complete opposite of my sister in every way. She likes the cold and snow, and I like sunshine and blankets. She loves to swim, and I prefer not to get my feet wet. She is big and I am small. (Though I did grow up to be a little bigger than an ankle-biter...but just barely.) We are perfect for each other and we love our family very much! See you on the Dog Jog trail!