Bailey's the 1.5 year old Chesapeake Bay Retriever who owns Mike Boone. She loves swimming and retrieving, but her special talent is stripping all the fuzz off a tennis ball in less than 2 minutes.

Says Mike: "My in-laws were due in town a few months back on their way up to our summer house in VT. I was fishing when they arrived, and Bailey wouldn't let my mother-in-law in the house. Needless to say, I found this much funnier than anyone else."

Tanner was their 12 year old Golden Retriever. "I guess he was really my wife's dog, she had him before I met her. However, he might be one of the main reasons that I agreed to marry her." He loved to ride in the boat, and his favorite pasttime was bringing rocks up from the bottom of whatever lake we were at.