I don't know what I did to deserve this.

Maybe this reader really loves red hair.

Maybe he has a man-crush on me.

Maybe really digs the way I cover his favorite team, the Angels.

Or, maybe he thinks I write like a dog.

That has to be it.

Jason Harned, the brother in law of fellow beat writer Doug Padilla is a Press-Enterprise subscriber living in Redlands and he always chides Padilla about how he likes my stories better.

Well, I don't know if any of you will believe this, but it's true. He just took in a canine with reddish hair and is naming it "Emilhurst," part of the dog's new moniker being named after me.

Now, I don't even have a child to name after me yet. But a loyal reader is naming his new dog after me. Wow. I'm shocked. Flabbergasted, even.

That poor dog.

Thanks, Jason.