Max
Max proving he can sit on command, unlike the other dogs in the Hoyt Household!
Max is a male big black dog. I learned after we adopted him that big black dogs (or BBDs) are one of the hardest type of dog for shelters to adopt out. Certainly our local shelter is often full of cage after cage of big black dogs, all looking like some variation of a black Labrador retriever.
Max is a heroically courageous dog, daily guarding the house against the UPS man, other dogs out walking, and attacks by nefarious outside cats, but like many heroes of old he has an Achilles heel.
Max is afraid of the car.
He wasn’t so bad when we had a van—he was happy to bark at motorcycles as he rode along—but now that he has to ride in a sedan to go to the kennel or vet…well, things are different. It starts with pacing in the backseat, progresses to whining like a weenie, and ends, inevitably and unfortunately, with drooling on the driver’s hair.
But this is a small weakness, and as long as we only have to go to the vet once a year, one that can be lived with.
Max on his back deck on the lookout for nefarious cats.
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