This was Cid in 2000, when I first brought him home from the shelter. He was not quite 10 pounds of squirmy happy pup, debatedly German Shepherd and Rottweiler mix. He looked like "generic dog" except for his marbelized coat (one of the neighbors used to call him Marble), and was probably the happiest dog on the planet.
He was born probably in late February of 2000. He died on this date in 2009. Nowhere near a long enough life for my liking. I still miss him terribly, six years later.
He was my first dog. He can't be replaced, but Pablo does a darned good job of filling in, and even has some Cid-isms that he does on occasion, that make me think Cid's spirit might have moved into Pablo in some mystical way. I'm glad about that.
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