{{ :family:curly-thumb.png |What a great little dog!}}

We adopted Curly from the pound. [[Elsie]] loves pound pets, because they are
usually very appreciative of having a good, loving family to live with. Curly
was definitely no exception!

I was in the field for a two-week field problem, and I called home on my cell
phone on the day we came back in from the field to let [[Elsie]] know that I
was on my way home. She said she had a surprise for me, and since we had been
talking about getting a dog (to go with the 2 cats [[Elsie]] had) I just knew
what was waiting for me.

When I walked in, little Curly saw me and took off running! I guess he had
been abused by another soldier in the past. For the first few months he would
run away from me when I was in my uniform, but he eventually got used to me
and now he's my little buddy. He likes to sit in my lap when I'm on the
computer. He's a really good little dog.

[[Elsie]] and the kids said that as soon as they saw him they knew he was our
dog.  He looks a lot like my Mom's dog [[Sugar]] and he has one crooked little
front leg. He needed a home after being out on the mean streets of Killeen!

Curly has passed on a while back.  He got out of the yard and we hope he found
a nice family with kids to take care of him, but he probably got eaten by coyotes
or picked up by the pound.