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Fri, Jul 20, 2007

Moon and Buzz

Posted at 9:27 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

Thirty-eight years ago today, I was watching people land on the moon for the first time.

The next day my family bought a dog and named him Buzz, in honor of the moon-landing. (Neil Armstrong's name did not work as a dog name.) I think his registered name was actually Buzz of Apollo.

Buzz was a pedigreed toy fox terrier, but the size genes had recombined: when he was 3 months old he was already bigger than his mom. He had one ear that stood up like a chihuahua's ear and one with the tip flipped down, so he looked a lot like the dog on the old RCA labels. (He was a smooth fox terrier, not the fuzzy kind.)

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