Thats the date we got him..He was a stray, so no one really knew his backround or age at the adoption center. Its kind of a sad story for the beginning of his life as well. He was found in Camden, NJ, and was abused by some men, which is why he had hated pretty much every guy until he got used to you, which was about the 5th time you met him. Anyway, the orphanage found him, took him, and he was shy of everyone, wasn't too lively, and no one took him. We ended up taking him, about a week before they were going to put him to sleep since it was meaningless to keep a dog locked up so long. It took him about a month to get used to us and to actually become happy again.

And yeah, the death of a pet seems so much more upsetting than the death of a person sometimes.