I rescued Bo from the Detroit Michigan Humane Society in December 2002.  He was turned into the Humane Society when he was only 4 weeks old with his 11 brothers and sisters.  I fell in love and took him home when he was only 5 ½ weeks old.  Bo was my first personal dog.  Initially, I was overwhelmed by his mouthiness, but I learned each day and I loved him.  At 4 months old he was diagnosed with severe hip dysplasia.  He had a rough start to life but he made my life complete.  He was a ton of fun and had the weirdest issues, (in fact I’m not sure Bo knew he was a dog).  He was so funny.

On a serious note Bo was so connected to me that he developed the ability to sense and understand when I was having difficulties breathing in my sleep.  Having asthma there were many nights I wondered if I would wake up in the morning, but because I was so tired I would often sleep through the early signs of the asthma attack.  Bo was a wonderful life saver.  On several occasions when I had trouble breathing he would wake me up.  He was relentless at tugging on me and pushing me around until I woke up.  I know for sure on one occasion he saved my life because by the time I finally stopped ignoring him I was almost completely unable to breathe.  To this day I am sure if Bo wasn’t there on that particular night, I wouldn’t be here today.  He was truly amazing.

In September 2006 Bo started exhibiting serious health complications that no one could figure out or diagnose.  Everything that we attempted to help him failed and ultimately I had to make the difficult decision to allow him to cross the rainbow bridge.   In December 2006 when the news talked about the pet food recall and the symptoms I realized that Bo was one of the first victims of the contaminated food.  I’m not exactly sure why I still had food, but I still have packets of food with the recall numbers that I had been feeding him so I know that’s what took him from me.

He was an amazing dog and I miss him daily.  I couldn’t have a website about my dogs without letting everyone see and honor my first dog, the dog that saved my life in more ways than one.

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