In October 2006, two months after our founding, I started walking a stately pug-chihuahua mix near Ben's Chili Bowl. He was one of the first dogs in what has become the heart of our current service area in NW.
It's been years since we were evicted from our games of fetch on the baseball field at 13th and V (I seem to recall it was I doing the throwing and he the fetching, but it could have been the other way around), and just about everyone who's ever worked with us has taken a stroll with him at some point; but Darby and his wonderful owner Jeannine are still on board as the only remaining clients from our first few months in business.
Darby's not the model of health that he once was, but he's still hanging tough on the the mean streets of the U St. corridor, and still happy (well, willing.....well, resigned) to share his walk time with any number of other pups in this area thick with BD clientele.
So, big thanks are in order to Jeannine and Darby on this anniversary. Maybe we could have done it without you, but it's indubitably been better to do it with you!
John
