Let me just say that I have the best walking companion in the world: Yankee.

Yankee is an 11-ish year old pound hound that we adopted almost 11 years ago.  She’s blond-ish, about 50 pounds (a little less now), and looks like she may have some greyhound in her.

For about 10 years, she got some good walks, but not nearly enough.  In the past 8 months, she has been on MANY walks.  She has probably logged more miles with me since February 2013 than we did in the entire time we’ve had her prior to that.

She is my walking buddy.  Yes, she gets distracted by the occasional squirrel (much more than occasional this time of year), she wants to meet most of her canine people (and gets a little too aggressive sometimes) – but she loves to walk and still gets excited every time she thinks I’m getting ready to go.  Every time.