Last Wednesday, National Dog Day, Jackson, a 15-year-old black lab, came home for a visit. It was 15 years ago that Lauren Collucci, of Salt Lake, was at the Forks Timber Museum and a man in the parking lot had a little black lab puppy. He said he found the dog while hiking and long story short, Lauren took the puppy.

Lauren never had had a dog before and didn’t know if it was a boy or girl so she named “her” Jackson. After getting Jackson home to Salt Lake the puppy started losing her hair and it was discovered she had mange.

Lauren said, “We tried a number of treatments but in the end she just had to outgrow it. It was sometime after she turned one that her hair started coming back. We all thought it was pretty funny that when I finally got a dog, after wanting one my whole childhood, this beast is what I ended up with! She’s been the best dog and best friend anyone could ask for though.”

Lauren decided that since Jackson is getting up in years she needed to visit her former home one more time. Photo Christi Baron