They had to put our dog Jake down in March of 2002.  I only found out in May, but that is a different story all together.  Shortly before Jake was put down, the house got a second dog.  Smokey use to belong to my nephew Adam (still does technically) but he couldn't take the dog with him when he and his mother, Eleanor, moved.  So my Dad inherited the dog.  In the short time that Jake and Smokey were together, Jake trained Smokey on the ways to be a Thompson dog.  From sitting in the chair at the window to saying grace before his meal.  And the dog does do that.... It is a sight to see.